CP Pro = Money Pit
02-26-2007, 12:43 PM
#1
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CP Pro = Money Pit
Guys - if you think you spent money on RC cars, wait
till you get into Helis!
I purchased a CX2 at Xmas and thereafter a CP Pro
I've run cars for 4 years and flew RC aircraft - 60 power
and glider for 20 years.
The CP Pro is a fine little micro, but unstable as my ex
on prozac....
I spent $250 out the door and after two months and $200 in
parts can now hover and flit around. At first I tried to hover
about 1 foot off the ground to lower the crash impact.
That was the worst mistake - the ground effect and prop
wash make hovering at anything less than 3 feet a crash
waiting to happen....You have to get up to 5 feet to hover
without ground effect - but it takes a set of nads to get that
high with the prop spinning at 2,000 RPM and $200 in the air.
Wrench time is 3x cars, and for me, unless I gently set it down
there's always something to replace.
My advice is to take off from a sidewalk and get over a grassy field
to lessen the impact....
Set up is 80% of staying up, and the throttle and stick require
the lightest of touch. But once you have mastered the hover, they are a blast.
I'm shifting to a trex - a larger and more stable platform and the parts
price is about the same
Just my two cents
Bill in CA
till you get into Helis!
I purchased a CX2 at Xmas and thereafter a CP Pro
I've run cars for 4 years and flew RC aircraft - 60 power
and glider for 20 years.
The CP Pro is a fine little micro, but unstable as my ex
on prozac....
I spent $250 out the door and after two months and $200 in
parts can now hover and flit around. At first I tried to hover
about 1 foot off the ground to lower the crash impact.
That was the worst mistake - the ground effect and prop
wash make hovering at anything less than 3 feet a crash
waiting to happen....You have to get up to 5 feet to hover
without ground effect - but it takes a set of nads to get that
high with the prop spinning at 2,000 RPM and $200 in the air.
Wrench time is 3x cars, and for me, unless I gently set it down
there's always something to replace.
My advice is to take off from a sidewalk and get over a grassy field
to lessen the impact....
Set up is 80% of staying up, and the throttle and stick require
the lightest of touch. But once you have mastered the hover, they are a blast.
I'm shifting to a trex - a larger and more stable platform and the parts
price is about the same
Just my two cents
Bill in CA
02-26-2007, 05:57 PM
#2
Roger That
I did the same thing, I've had my trex about a year now.
Little pricey at first but once you get it to fly around, it's the best.
Have fun
I did the same thing, I've had my trex about a year now.
Little pricey at first but once you get it to fly around, it's the best.
Have fun
02-26-2007, 08:04 PM
#3
I can tell you where you both went wrong......
Its in the blades.
I am an budding RC helicopter pilot with two .30 size birds in my possession: a Hirobo Shuttle and a Kyosho Nexus. When I bought the Blade CP Pro, I knew that in order to have a stable hover and flight, YOU MUST BUY CARBON FIBER BLADES AND TAIL ROTORS!!!! They are far superior that conventional balsa blades in two ways: the weight is lighter and they are uniformly balanced. With CF (carbon fiber) blades, both blades are equally the same in weight as opposed to balsa blades, which requires a coat of Mononoke or shrink wrap. The shrink wrap adds weight to the blades and when mass produced, they are not as equally balanced as they should be and the wrap aren't evenly cut, which result in unbalanced blades!!. So, that first flight in Balsa blades is a very squirrelly one!! I wanted to buy CF blades for my CP Pro when I first got them, but after cracking them, I switched to CF blades. Trust me there is a big difference!!!
Ducati, you are right in starting from a large, grassy area, especially if you ar a novice. I barely managed to fly it in my small living room, and did pretty well in the garage. However, I found that I gained confidence with the CF blades and really started to hover higher and move around the garage!
Then I got too close to the wall, clipped the tail rotor and the bird went down, breaking the tail boom and damaging the blade grips.
The CF blades held up to the impact great! 
The CP Pro is a great bird to learn to fly with, and I highly reccommend that if you buy one of these, treat it like a competition r/c car and bullet-proof the major componets: the blades, the blade grips, the tail rotor, the main gear, and the main shaft.
Its in the blades.
I am an budding RC helicopter pilot with two .30 size birds in my possession: a Hirobo Shuttle and a Kyosho Nexus. When I bought the Blade CP Pro, I knew that in order to have a stable hover and flight, YOU MUST BUY CARBON FIBER BLADES AND TAIL ROTORS!!!! They are far superior that conventional balsa blades in two ways: the weight is lighter and they are uniformly balanced. With CF (carbon fiber) blades, both blades are equally the same in weight as opposed to balsa blades, which requires a coat of Mononoke or shrink wrap. The shrink wrap adds weight to the blades and when mass produced, they are not as equally balanced as they should be and the wrap aren't evenly cut, which result in unbalanced blades!!. So, that first flight in Balsa blades is a very squirrelly one!! I wanted to buy CF blades for my CP Pro when I first got them, but after cracking them, I switched to CF blades. Trust me there is a big difference!!!
Ducati, you are right in starting from a large, grassy area, especially if you ar a novice. I barely managed to fly it in my small living room, and did pretty well in the garage. However, I found that I gained confidence with the CF blades and really started to hover higher and move around the garage!
Then I got too close to the wall, clipped the tail rotor and the bird went down, breaking the tail boom and damaging the blade grips.
The CF blades held up to the impact great! The CP Pro is a great bird to learn to fly with, and I highly reccommend that if you buy one of these, treat it like a competition r/c car and bullet-proof the major componets: the blades, the blade grips, the tail rotor, the main gear, and the main shaft.
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