Well this is the official launch of the Micro RC Review website.
The goal of this site is to review the latest and the greatest Micro RC cars, airplanes, helicopters, and whatever else is small and remote controlled.
I have been building up a collection of Micro RC planes and helicopters for the last year and what to share my findings with you. If you have a Micro RC toy that you would like reviewed let me know and I will try to track it down for you.
Technorati: Micro RC Reviews, Air Hogs, Havoc Heli, Bell Hughes 300, Air Hogs Reflex, Eflite Blade CX, Hobbyzone Supercub
5 responses so far ↓
1 picooz warrior // Sep 20, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Hi there, great idea to review these awesome new little gadgets that are coming out.
I bought a “Picooz” with a bit of hesitation a while back and are now firmly hooked on helicopters!
I have done a fair bit of experimentation and fiddling with picooz’es so if anyone is interested I can give a good deal of advice on them. Especially optimizing flying outside! Yes, outside, nightime flying with these little guys is awesome fun!
Anyway, hope the site is successful,
best regards,
Picooz warrior.
2 Dan // Sep 20, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Picooz warrios -
Thanks for stopping by!
3 picooz warrior // Nov 9, 2007 at 1:39 am
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
4 Heliwoman // Nov 9, 2007 at 12:37 pm
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.
5 Dan // Nov 9, 2007 at 12:56 pm
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
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