I would like to take my hat off to E-flite for making another great micro flying machine. I got my msr yesterday. I was hesitant to buy this one because fly helicopters is hard. My brother in law bought me a micro one last year and that thing was insane and does not fly anymore. It was so hard to control. I have off and on flown helis on my flight simulator and have slowly gotten so I can fly them. They do not exactly go where I want them to but I can keep them form crashing.
So with some birthday money I got the E-flight Blade mSR. I watch several videos on this aircraft and saw that they said it was durable. I fly my Blade mX2's all the time and have always been impressed with their ability to take a crash and have no damage. I thought if the mSR is even remotely as durable then I should eventually be able to learn to fly it. I got it out of the box, charged my batteries, bound it to my Spektrum radio and gave it a try. I do not know if it was from my recent increase of flight time on my sim. or if it was that this heli is that easy to fly or what, but I hoped it up into the air and had it in a nice hoover with no problems. I was surprised to see how stable it is. The only areas of trouble I have had is sometimes I get it flying in a forward movement and I really gets
go fast and I sometimes cannot get it under control and I then proceed to crash. I go over and pick it up place it on the table at work and I am off again. The only other negative is it seems like the battery does not last as long as the other micro air craft I fly.
One of my other favorite E-filte products is the Ember 2. They say it is an indoor airplane, but I have never flown it indoors. I is one of the nicest planes I have flown. I can fly it anywhere almost. It is so small and slow you can fly in your front yard. My dog has a field day chasing it a round while I fly it is the evenings. I have a street lamp by my yard and I can fly it at night. I just fly it by the street light and it works great. If I was getting a started plane as a beginner, I think this is the one I would pick. It is so light and slow that you have plenty of reaction time and it does not hit the ground hard. It just floats to the ground. It is hard to brake unless you step on it or your nice rides her bike over it, but that is an other story. Even in those situations you can buy replacement parts. My 8 yr old son has flown it a few times. It has great range so we fly in a big field in front of my house. I take it high, give him the radio and let him go. If he gets into trouble then I just grab the radio take the plane up and give it back to him. The plane is so slow and light you have plenty of reaction lime.
Anyways I just wanted to let everyone know how impressed I am with these aircraft that E-flite has created and I would highly recommend them to anyone . The co-axial helis are a great way to get into the hobby. Watch out because one you get the flying bug it is hard to get rid of.
I was Thanksgiving week end when I started. It was more complicated than I thought. I was able to finish the exterior on Christmas eve. Needless to say she loved it, but it was only half done. I had grand plans to install lights and a hallway and an other wall for the bath room. Two months later and I is done. It was a great project and to see how much fun my daughter has been having with picking paint colors and arranging and rearranging furniture and made it very rewarding.
