Jigsaw's Blog: My thoughts on games (and other stuff)

Micro R/C Helicopters

So a few weeks back I picked up a couple micro remote control helicopters. Now that I’ve been playing with them for a while I though I’d share my thoughts on them. I’m still not great at flying them because they’re are not easy to control. Since buying them I’ve learned that the larger the r/c helicopter the easier it is to fly, but since I don’t have a lot of area to fly them and these can be flow indoors I’m working on getting better with them. Taking off and landing is not to bad. It is the maneuvering that takes practice. These micro helicopters come ready to fly out of the box. You just need to charge them up, which takes 15 or 20 minutes, and then you’re ready to fly. For the first flight you have to do a little adjusting so that it flies strait and does not spin in circles. Once you have that done it should fly strait up and down pretty easily. The instructions recommend getting to the point where you can keep it hovering at a level height before trying to maneuver it. Of course I did not do this at first and proceeded to crash and break my first one. It was completely my fault and now that I have taken some time to get hovering place down I can fly the second one around my living room fairly well. Even through I’m still learning how to keep it under control I’m having a lot of fun with it. I was thinking about getting a slightly larger one so that it would be a tad easier to fly, but I don’t have a good area around my house to fly it so when I found a mini r/c airplane today on sale for $10 I could not pass it up. Once I’ve spent some time with it I’ll let everyone know how it is. I suspect it will be easier to fly than the helicopter, but that it will take more room since I can’t just have it hovering in place. If you have any experience with r/c planes or helicopters let me know any tips you might have.

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