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