Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Will it fly?

Just bought a Micro Flyers™ Excalibur 8635R-1 couple days ago. Small, light, battery- powered, featuring double- blade rotors (top one is "stabilizer") and tail rotor, with a simple controller, anyone can be a pilot!


Or so I thought.

It's actually my first RC chopper. When I laid my hands on the controller I realized that I had no idea how to fly this thing. The throttle was too sensitive and I always crashed the black hawk seconds* after a successful† takeoff. With my !skill, I could only hold it up for another shot.

As with everything else, a little practice can help, and I'm getting better. Now I start to hate the "simplicity" of the controller, and wish it's multi-directional. But I guess for $25 I can't really ask for more...

* error C2146: syntax error : missing 'nano' before identifier 'seconds'
#define successful 0.00000001

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