Crashed my RC helicopter.

[Turkey]

Mc Gherkin is right. It's true that any RC model (helicopter, plane, boat, car etc) that's accurate to the real thing, but smaller will require faster reactions. It's simple physics - remember what the twin towers looked like when they were falling? Like a slow motion video. Now imagine an accurate jenga model of the twin towers falling - it's the same dynamics, except it happens far quicker.

I think you may also be right about the cause of the crash, Mc Gherkin. From the video you can see the heli becomes a little unstable from wind, shortly before I take a bit of power off to try and lower it. I then tried to tilt it forwards a little to balance it - I seem to remember the heli reacted very sensitively at that point and tilted far forwards. I'm sure an experienced pilot could have done something, but I had no control.

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(2012-02-07 19:13)Lampshade Wrote:  If I were ever to get an RC helicopter, I'd get one of those quad rotor ones that keep themselves level.

Shame though.

I have a small indoor quad rotor heli and I learned how to fly it well very quickly (anyone can). That's when I decided to go for something challenging. Perhaps more challenging than I expected though.