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Comment on Air Hogs Helix 360 – Hands on Review by Dan

Dan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:06:51 +0000

I’m sorry to hear that you had that experience with Spinmaster.

I had to go through their support when I needed a new rotor after crashing to many times. They also asked me to cut the blades and email a photo of the cut blades, but they sent me a brand new heli in the box.

Comment on Air Hogs Helix 360 – Hands on Review by rkmjr1

rkmjr1 — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:36:51 +0000

Beware of this company! I bought a Helix 360 and it would not trim. The company asked me to cut off the blades and send them to them before they would send me a replacement which was a lesser 3C heli. This company thinks its customers are trying to cheat them, when it is this company that is cheating its customers with poor quality.

DO NOT BUY products from SpinMaster

Comment on Air Hogs Helix 360 – Hands on Review by Dan

Dan — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:21:17 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

I too had issues taming the 360. It just seemed like a lot of work for the price I paid for it. I have been really happy with the S107 that I got though. It was half the price and double the machine. I have never had a micro heli that stable before. You should check out my review here:

http://www.microrcreviews.com/syma-s107-mini-the-best-micro-helicopter-around.htm

Thanks for stopping by!

Comment on Air Hogs Helix 360 – Hands on Review by REC

REC — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:43:14 +0000

I’m a novice user, but was starting to get the hang of 4 channel control with the Helix 360. The machine was always hard to control. The helo jumped off the landing pad and headed left on every takeoff. After a half circle, it would start to hover and be stable. But he nose always dipped up and down. I learned to fly it using only the left stick and when I got confident, I started trying to make it go backwards and forwards. The machine was very sensitive to the controls, but I figured I would just have to get the touch. Later, however, it would occassionly veer different directions even without me moving the controls. I was still able to fly it effectively, but would always crash when it took its own reins. The last three flights have been impossible because the 360 has become mostly unpredictable in direction and intermittant in its response to the controler. Perhaps all the “learning” crashes have bent things up, but occassionaly it flies great. Maybe I have a bad controller. So that’s been my experience with the Helix 360. Just thought I’d add to the log.

Comment on Air Hogs Havoc Heli Laser Battle Review by airhogsforum.com

airhogsforum.com — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:39:31 +0000

The Havoc Heli is an awesome little toy and I enjoy it as well. There has recently been a community formed here: http://www.airhogsforum.com to make it better and help each other with problems.

Comment on Air Hogs Nano Hawk Review – A Joy to Fly by links for 2008-01-31 « Talkabout

links for 2008-01-31 « Talkabout — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:32:48 +0000

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Comment on Micro RC Reviews – Our First Post by Dan

Dan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:56:44 +0000

The Laser Battle is fun if you have someone to fly/battle with. I would recommend the Air Hogs Reflex as another Heli to consider. It is a 3 channel copter that has Up/Down/right/left/backward/forward control. It is a nice step up from the Havoc Heli. Amazon has them here - Air Hogs Reflex Helicopter

Comment on Micro RC Reviews – Our First Post by Heliwoman

Heliwoman — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:37:37 +0000

So, Picooz warrior.

If I want to buy a christmas gift for someone and I’d like to spend around $60-$75, which set of helicopters is the best deal. I see a package of Air Hogs R/c Havoc Heli Laser Battle that looks like fun. What do you think? It would be for beginners.

Comment on Micro RC Reviews – Our First Post by picooz warrior

picooz warrior — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:00 +0000

Hey people’s, once you’ve cut your teeth in 3d flying on an air hogs or Picooz two channel job, you gotta get “cyclic” man!
Invested in one of those twin rotor bell 47/ocean rescue/e.t.c, type machines. the electrics are all similar but you can buy em under many brand names. They got two counter rotating rotors on a common shaft, they are great. Having cyclic pitch control is awesome, a totally different experience to the all over the place Picooz type machine. With time I tweaked my original Picooz and could do a circuit and landing on a home built heli pad about the size of a magazine in area. But you get sick of that after a while and this is the next logical step. They are all over the net. Pick one up and get into flying rolling take offs, going backwards, and flying through small openings. They call them an indoor helicopter. But try them outside, they don’t like wind, true, but any good chopper pilot dosen’t let a little thing like wind stop him/her!

They are R/C instead of Infra red too, so daytime outside is no worries.

Watch Perfect storm (the helicopter rescue scene) for some insparation if you don’t think you can handle wind!

Even the tiny Picooz can handle some breeze, not much, but the trick is this:

I used to go out at night after I put the kids to bed and had washed up, fed the cat and got the wife off, and try to fly the light weight Picooz across my road to the other side and back.
Trouble was, even the lightest breeze would carry it off course down wind and I could never make any real head way to get back.- BUT……all you need to do is dial in some clockwise (looking from the rear of the machine) tail rotor, almost to the point where the tail rotor is pointing almost straight down, and it gives you the foward grunt to fly into, and make ground upwind. Some throttle makes the tail rotor pull the boom up, pointing the nose down, and off she goes. This amount of foward thrust would be unworkable indoors, but outside in the wide open space, it is not so much of an issue and gives you much important leverage against the elements!

Give it a shot, start with a little twist, and progress until you can fight that breeze and come home!

“Breeze” I use very subjectively, I’m talking the light current of wind that you can hardly feel, but never-the-less seems to pull your Picooz down wind when flying out side at night.

One of the reasons it’s cool and acheiveable to fly the Picooz at night is also down to the fact that it has a flashing strobe! This I thought was a silly battery wasting gimmick when I initially purchased my first Picooz, but it actually is a huge asset for night flying. Especially if your ship goes down in hostile, Neighbor’s dog barking hedge territory.

Keep flying on the edge!

if ya not on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
(yes. I am a loser!)

Picooz warrior

Comment on Micro RC Reviews – Our First Post by Dan

Dan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:37:14 +0000

Picooz warrios –

Thanks for stopping by!