Honey Bee Helicopter setup tips and some modifications.

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Setup and modifications for the Honeybee CP2, CCPM, helicopter

Hope these tips help those who email me on such matters.
It is too expensive, as you know, to keep breaking the real thing.
So try my rules of thumb:
1.
Have someone hover that knows how to trim it out, don't let him fly it though, just hover!
(It is hard for a beginner to know what is wrong, the helicopter, or him!)
2.
Never ever watch the tail rotor!
Why? Well you have to watch the nose, just like an airplane, cause the controls are crossed.
Most novices think right rudder makes the tail boom and rotor go to the right. Nope, it goes to the left and the NOSE goes to the right. So watch the nose.
Again, Right Rudder is right nose, like doing a right stall turn with a plane.
3.
DO not attempt nose in, because all controls are backwards, and very difficult. That will come naturally later on.
4.
Never fly away until you can hover, because you will never get back without being able to hover and land! That is always expensive.

Once in the air, it is really easy to fly. It is just like an airplane, elevator (Fore and Aft Cyclic) will make the helicopter fly up and down.

Aileron (left and right Cyclic) will make it roll just like an airplane.
You will never need to use the tail rotor, as it just follows behind, unless you need to make sharper turns.
**But, when you come in to land, you have to pretend you are using rudder (like on airplanes) as it will steer the heli in just like it does on the planes.

***But at hover, you really have to keep the NOSE still and the tail rotor motor gets a Real workout. Let it cool 5 minutes after flying 5 minutes.
5.
Always fly at eye level, because lower flights are more difficult because of ground effect.
6.
And don't let people watch you when your learning.
They cause more crashes, because they always egg you on or you feel pressured to fly for them.
7.
Never chop the throttle stick. It must go down gently or the blades will hit the tail boom, when the skids slam down on the ground. That's called a boom strike and is especially expensive on a shaft or belt driven tail rotor heli.
Remember: (No chop stick, no Bang Boom)
8.
Never forget what your last maneuver was and never forget it.
Ex:(Remember what you did last, when flying)
Oh, and....
9.
Memorize this and you will become a good pilot.

Remember: "If you continue to do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten".

Good luck,
Dave

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: July 2, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Author: NightFlyyer

Length: 00:09:30
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Video Comments:
logiser225 (November 30, 2008 at 9:37 am)
Thanks from this video, and from that Proper Honey Bee CP2 setup video! They are both great, but you should ask somebody to photograph for you. Anyway thanks a lot. I am going to have that CP2 in few days. This video is really helpful!
NightFlyyer (December 1, 2008 at 1:15 pm)
Yep, well a year and a half ago, I guess I didn't have my friend around to video. Hopefully you like my newer ones. Thanks for your comments.
lsukiller08 (November 20, 2008 at 4:12 pm)
u could just keep ur learning kit on it has 4 orange balls...
NightFlyyer (November 21, 2008 at 9:47 am)
Those are ugly, in my opinion and I didn't need it to keep it from falling over, I needed it to see. I never buy the training kit, so did not have one anyway. These pingpong balls are way cheaper. LOL.
th3s41nt (November 12, 2008 at 11:07 pm)
hey you sound like art bell
NightFlyyer (November 21, 2008 at 9:47 am)
Hmmmm...
mzappo (October 29, 2008 at 8:00 pm)
fxxk all that get a trex 450
NightFlyyer (October 31, 2008 at 6:42 pm)
I like my Blade 400 first of all, and second a TRex is not for beginners. Learn on a VW, and if you NEVER CRASH IT, then you can get your Porsche is my opinion as a certified 3D instructor.
14cyproit14 (October 27, 2008 at 9:42 am)
lol i just noticed at 00:45 you said, so it isnt gonna fly away and kill ya, lol that had me in stiches :)
NightFlyyer (October 31, 2008 at 6:44 pm)
True, remember I broke all the bones in my right foot with a gas helicopter in the early days, and it hurt so bad, I wished I was dead.
LOL.