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