anyone know of an FMS Gaui EP-100 model????

[village_idiot]

Looking for an FMS model of the Gaui EP-100/Pixy Zap/Mini Zoom helicopter with 120 degree CCPM swash plate. Anyone know if this exists?

[gravityKills]

Uh... isn't it 120 degrees CCPM by default?
-mn

[salat]

anybody found model?
Thank you,
Kostya

[bluesky123]

FMS has such primitive heli flight model, that there's very little difference between different helies (apart from their looks).
Don't count on FMS to teach you how to fly helies! Get some decent heli sim and go from there.

Boris

[gravityKills]

FMS has such primitive heli flight model, that there's very little difference between different helies (apart from their looks).
Don't count on FMS to teach you how to fly helies! Get some decent heli sim and go from there.

Boris

Boris is right, but don't dismiss FMS for that reason - one model is all you need. It doesn't matter whether it matches your actual heli.
I don't know at what level you fly, but I learned the basics with FMS, and then EP 100 for many hours, lately also Phoenix. Still, I could manage with FMS to practise for example backwards figure 8s. As long as it's about learning the directions, FMS will do, IMO. Then you can safely continue with the real heli.

I had a quick look again at FMS, the "3D" isn't too different from my EP 100 in terms of cyclic response. BUT the 3D is too slow, meaning when the heli is at an angle, it will "slide" away with much higher acceleration in real life. FMS is too easy, but never mind. This is BTW different in Phoenix, and my own two EP 100s (which had +1h airtime today for each) are somewhere in-between.

With the real heli, the setup will make a -huge- difference (CCPM mixing collective / cyclic tradeoff, flybar weights, headspeed to name a few, not to forget which length of blade you choose).

PS: There is one "gotcha" in FMS, and that is that most helis have different colors on rotor top and bottom side. In real life, in a side-in hover the rotor provides almost no clues whether the heli leans towards me or away from me.