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- Range checks
You want to complete range checks of your radio equipment before trying to fly. Before turning on your transmitter, make sure you comply with the frequency control system in use at your field. With your transmitter aerial down, switch on the transmitter and the helicopter and start walking while moving the sticks and make sure your helicopter responds. Keep walking until the helicopter fails to respond. For more details, consult the documentation of your radio.
- Crank it up!
Once you have your frequency sorted and your range checks are complete, attach the training gear and pump some fuel into your machine, turn on your transmitter and helicopter. Make sure your throttle stick is set to low, connect your glow plug lead, connect your starter motor and crank it! Hopefully it'll crank up and sit there at idle.
OK, so now if everything has gone to plan, your pride and joy is sitting there burbling away. It's time to get serious now! Preferably you'll want someone experienced with you helping you out, even better if they can test fly it and set it up for you, if not, follow on. Now it's time to track the blades. For more information on that, see our tracking section.
So now your blades are all nicely tracked, you now need to trim your helicopter. For more on that, check out our trimming section.
OK, now your machine is all sorted and ready to rock, are you? Let's get down to the business of learning how to fly!
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"WHAT YOU SHOULD GET"
THE HELI.
When choosing your first helicopter you first have to decide which type of chopper you wish to purchase, a collective pitch machine, or a non-collective pitch machine. If you are starting the R/C hobby from scratch and must buy everything, I would strongly suggest the collective pitch machine. Although it is a bit more expensive initially, it is by far the more versatile of the two and will help you enjoy more advanced stages of the hobby after you have learned to fly. You will also find the learning process easier with a collective pitch machine.
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