Axe CP

[Xpress..]

Ok, anyone have it? And have any of you veteran heli pilots taken it all out? Like doing 3D maneuvers with the heli?

So-far, my experience is going good. Hovering is becomming easy, as well as moving the heli forward, and backwards.

[redvtr1000]

I have one, no 3d for me though and I doubt if even the most skilled 3d pilot is going to tell you he likes it for 3d out of the box.

Needs head upgrades to really be as 3d capable as they make you think it is with the "invert it out of the box" advertising ploy. Plus, in case you haven't noticed, the gyro sucks on it and the battery they sell it with is useless. Which I can't see making too good of a combo for 3d.

Add a brushless motor and esc, HH gyro, upgrade the tail motor, the rotor head.

Then maybe?

[Xpress..]

I've seen in the MA magazines that one of the top heli pilots had upgraded one, and put in a brushless, HH gyro, and I think used the stock tailrotor motor. It seemed to do fine, but I'm wondering just how can you upgrade to a brushless motor, and a HH gyro, with there being an electric tailrotor?

The stock battery may provide a few minutes of idle up, but maybee only go inverted once or twice for the entire flight. A V2.0, or a PRO version of the Axe CP would be awesome, no?

[wilsgrant]

I've seen in the MA magazines that one of the top heli pilots had upgraded one, and put in a brushless, HH gyro, and I think used the stock tailrotor motor. It seemed to do fine, but I'm wondering just how can you upgrade to a brushless motor, and a HH gyro, with there being an electric tailrotor?

The stock battery may provide a few minutes of idle up, but maybee only go inverted once or twice for the entire flight. A V2.0, or a PRO version of the Axe CP would be awesome, no?

A pro version of the Axe CP would have to be a CopterX :)

[Xpress..]

Ahh. I have found an add on here for the AXE CP that comes with a lipo battery and a balance charger. I guess that could be considered an upgrade.

[barracudahockey]

I have helped people with them. They will flip upside down and back upright again if you have enough altitude and do so at the very beginning of a fully charged battery, if thats your definition of 3d.

[Xpress..]

I guess it is. But that would mostly be considered aerobatics. I think if they had fulley upgraded the helicopter, and threw in a brushless system, then it might be 3D capable.

I'm talking about upgrading the fuse, the tailrotor system(belt/torque tube drive, and servo controlled), new electronics(or user bought), and aluminum and CF all around.

Basically, just make it an MX450, but they already have it, lol.

[geostomp]

I got mine upside down the other day, its brushless, but has stock tail. I really don't think its a 3d machine. It's meant for hovering. I may get a tail belt for it, but will prolly just get a new heli. I have a 401 and a df400 motor. It was very hard to fly out of the box. If I had to do it all over I{ would get a trex clone like that on xheli or a belt cp rtf for the value. MAy post some inverted youtube vides here in a bit. Oh and I make my own booms out of aluminum tube stock from the hobby shop and have mad the newest one a few inches longer to counter tail swing under heavy collective use. Have yet to try it out yet but it seems like it should work. Later