Hi Friends,

I was very much intrested in helis, so i started with co-axial helis as i do not know about ccpm helis and RCINDIA, 1 year back. After spoiling/breaking around 10 co-axial helis, i came to know about ccpms and rcindia and then i have realized these co-axials are not the best. Stopped buying co-axials. Started looking about 450 size helis. After doing some analysis i have purchased a used 450 size heli and tried to fly many times, all the times it has given me some problem, i couldn't even hover it, I was really highly frustrated with that 450 heli and left it for some days and started practicing more on simulator.

Recently i bought HK 450 GT PRO kit. This time i just wanted to sit with some experienced person and do every thing under expert observation as i am a very new in building it. I approached paladugu_sujith. He is having a very good experience in building/flying/setting helis. He is really such a nice guy he has postponed all his work and helped me in building/setting the heli. He helped me a lot in the entire build and configurations. He did the first test flight. The next day morning, i took the remote and wanted to hover it, almost my fingers are shaking on remote sticks, when i was holding the remote. Slowly given the throttle and tried to control it. When i was controlling and hovering the heli, i was very very happy and i really do not have words to explain my feelings. Finally i have succeeded in flying my first flight of 450 Heli. Attached the video. Its a short video. That was a heavy windy morning.

I would really like to say thanks to paladugu_sujith for his excellent help.

Great, congratulations - I know that feeling!!

Congrats !

hey congrats kumar finally u did it ....imp heli tip if u want tht flybared bird of urs to have increased stability increase ur rpm to 3000 i knows its a strat but u will have better stability and crisp feel 

Thanks Shannon, You know how much i struggled to learn this flying. Thanks for your on call support shannon.

lol dont need to mention it ur welcome glad ur finally up hope to c u doing some sports flying in two months

keep the same till you go sports,, many people just give up helis after hovers..

Great one!
BTW how much did cost you?

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@Avesh:- Thanks Avesh....will not leave it at any cost...looking to move forward....hovering, moving forward, moving backward, moving left, right and taking turns.....have to do so many things. will not leave it...pretty excited to do all these things.

@kartikmadhira:-The kit has costed me around 5k, all the servos are from savox (each around Rs.850) and costed me around Rs.3500, Turnigty 60 amps esc - Rs.2000, turnigy typhoon motor Rs.1200, HK 401B Gyro -Rs.900

I guess every heli flyer has gone through this feeling....keep it up!

Congratulations my friend.. anytime will be ready to help / share knowledge

Thank God, Successfully completed the second flight. I was able to hover it for 10 mins (around) continuously. And also did some forward and backward movements, reached little high altitudes as well. What an aaammmaaazzziiinnnggg feeling it is!!! wanted to share the video. Each flight is a different feeling. Again i really dont have words to explain my feelings at this movement. yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Thanks a ton Mr.Paladugu_sujith for your excellent help and for your knowledge sharing.

10min- good, i get around 8.0 min on my 450 pro with mild sports mode. Do you verify your battery voltage after the flight or do you use any low voltage alarm..

@avesh: Not exactly 10 mins, it comes around 10 mins, i have not calculated it exactly. Yes i do have low voltage buzzer as well. I am not doing any sport flying on it. Its just a 4 feet height hovering. I guess takes less power for hovering like this, thats why it is giving around 10 mins of flight time.

Watch "hk 450gt pro" on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHXmd6LGxs0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It shows "This video is private" !

oops .. fixed it now.. u can check.

@paladugu_sujith nice flying, but please get some altitude because i had a pretty bad experience flying at low.

@avesh:-
I had some bad experience in flying at little high altitudes (not a very high altitude).

Last week i was practicing moving forward, backward and taking u turns, Its my bad heli went little further from me, i last my orientation and it crashed. As this is a small bird, its very difficult to maintain orientation if we reach a little high altitudes even. Ofcourse there will not be any difference, if it is crashed from low altitudes or if it is crashed from high altitudes. The crash is a crash and have to spend dollars.

A heli meant to be crashed, if not today, may be some other day......

A heli meant to be crashed, if not today, may be some other day...... well saying...
@kumar helis are not forgiving, a slight wrong pinch of  a control at low altitudes and all down to earth. A higher altitude can at least give you some time to counter. Yes but if you are learining to fly heli their goes an exception. Of course i agree due to size of 450 it gets pretty hard and orientation issue..

one of my early videos of heli flying..

 
Great flying..cool bird...which brand it is ?

but to see the video initially i have bend my neck aside...

sorry about that kumar, but its better after a minute or so.. its hiller 450 pro, typhoon motor 3500, 40a skywalker esc, cheap gyro -- cant remember the name , Emax ES08MD cyclic and 9257 analog tail. 12t pinion and 20c lipo..

Hey avesh,

can you share your experience with hiller 450 pro as in detail, because im planning to go for hiller 450 pro for my next heli. Now the dollar rate has gone real mad. Its very difficult to import from HK or any other source. In addition to this Dollar problem, these stupid customs have become another head ache now a days.

Thanks
Kumar

@avesh..

i was just doing some fun flying .. i fly nitros now.. it was for kumardasai i was testing the new gyro gain settings.

bad day for him though.. he lost orientation in the last flight and lost the heli.!!