How to get started flying RC helicopters

RC helicopters have become a very common RC toywant it, like hover time and rotor speed. Once you get
lately and come in a variety of prices and types. Manya feel for your helicopter, and have everything
problems that beginners face are what type ofadjusted perfectly, your helicopter will fly just the way
helicopter to choose, power source for it and whetheryou want it and not the way some factory decided it
they want an indoor or outdoor one. With many moreshould.
options on top of those you can imagine how difficult itThe next challenge beginner helicopter pilot's face is
is for beginners to take off, literally. First let's talk aboutlearning how to fly their chopper. This is a big problem
the different power sources that a RC modelsince a helicopter is the hardest aerial vehicle to fly and
helicopter can have, and which one will best suit you.having a miniature version of one doesn't make things
If you are a beginner RC helicopter pilot, then the besteasier. If you have no helicopter flying experience and
power source for you is electric. Electrically poweredyou try to fly it, most likely it will crash into the ground.
chopper engines are still very fast, but yet still quiet,To save yourself frustration you need to learn how to
and can maneuver just as good a full sized fuelproperly put it together and fly it.
powered one! Another main attraction to electricI recommend that you read the instruction manual, front
helicopters is the fact that you don't have to deal withto back, before you attempt to put it together and
messy fuels or with tuning the engine at all. Plus fuelwhen you actually do, make sure you tighten every
cost money and electricity is much cheaper. If you arebolt and include every screw. One missing screw or
a beginner then I definitely recommend that you get anloose bolt can throw the whole helicopter off and send
electric powered RC helicopter and then progressit crashing to the ground because it is unbalanced.
your way up to a glow powered one.Learning how to fly a RC helicopter is a challenge
Glow engines have been used in RC airplanes forwithin itself, and could never be fully taught over the
some time now, and have made there way over tointernet or through some book. The best way to learn
helicopters. Glow engines have a simple ignition systemis to get real flying experience with an instructor at first,
that uses a glow plug rather than a spark plug. Theand then on your own later. You can find an instructor
glow plug is heated by a battery operated glowat a local RC airplane and helicopter club. RC airplane
starter, and meanwhile the modeler uses a starter toclubs are most common and exist in just about every
turn the engine over. When fuel enters the combustionstate and country, and since most of them will have
chamber, it is ignited by the heated glow plug and theexperience with planes they most likely will also know
engine starts up.how to fly RC model helicopters too.
If you want to seriously get into the RC helicopterIf you want to learn more about RC helicopters, and
hobby, then a glow engine chopper is perfect forsee some recommendations, then check out Michael's
realism, building, maintaining and flying! You will be ablehelicopter page at Interested in R/C airplanes?
to personalize your chopper exactly the way you