Read First Before Buy Great Planes RealFlight Interlink GPMZ4482
The reason you start here is this is the lowest end programable radio in the line. It will also carry you all the way through the Blade 450D. So for the low price of 160 bucks you have a radio that will start you off and take you all the way to 3D flying. Additionally, with a 10 model memory, you can have quite a few aircraft in your fleet and still have the ability to fly any of them.
The programability is very important as it can completely change the feel of your aircraft to your preferences. If you are flying a Blade helicopter, then all the programing parameters can be found with the helo or online. There are also some ebooks I have found which have good information on what each function does. This is important as the manual is lacking in why or why you would or would not want to do something.
So the place to start learning to fly an RC Helicopter is with this radio and the Phoenix R/C Pro Simulator Version 3.0. Put your hours in practicing maneuvers on the sim. After you've got those down, unplug, your radio (unfortunately, as of right now the Blade mCP X requires collective reversing for DX6i while in the sim it uses normal collective so you will have to change models.), change models to the live model and fly.
For the price this radio has some amazing features. I have paid a lot more for a far less capable radio.
Pros
Radio's capability
Price
Feel
Cons
Poor Instructions
This is not a toy, its a money saving program. If you wish to learn the technical details of how to fly a radio control model and save yourself the first thousand crashes. This is program is very useful and very well executed. its amazingly done.
BalasHapus