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I guess you have to realize what you are getting with this item. It's a $65 remote control helicopter made in China that is 27-inches long and about a foot high. It's designed for stability and easy to control, indoor flight. It delivers. If you plan on flying the S033g outdoors, you will either need a completely windless day or the willingness to make a few very easy, almost no-cost modifications. The two modifications I prefer are:
1) Snap off the cover, and move the battery as far forward as you can. This will require two 8" cable ties, as you have to cut the existing ties to re-position the battery. Doing so gives the helicopter a little more weight over the nose and helps lean the S033g forward more readily.
2) Using a 3/16 x .115 x 1 nylon spacer (available at Lowe's in the hardware area for about $0.50) you can very easily attach the supplied, spare tail rotor to the S033g thereby giving it 4 blades instead of 2. Again, this allows more forward pitch to fly in slight breezes.
Using those two mods, neither of which require doing any harm to the helicopter, the S033g is a pretty decent little backyard chopper. Of course if you want something that will aggressively fly outside, you're probably better off investing in something like the Blade 300X ($320 plus $130 for the radio control). At $65 you just can't beat this heli, but you should also understand it has some limitations.
I would recommend the Syma. It is fun to fly and easy to figure out how to fly. Entertaining for people of all ages.
BalasHapusFor a co-ax heli/counter rotational rotors, this is a fantastic buy. I fly several different types (fixed pitch coax, collective pitch single rotor, etc), and for this class of helicopter it's one heck of a lot of fun. Having had a couple of the S107's that are to this day still working, I decided to order the S033G and give it a shot. It's basically a much larger version of the S107G (about 26" long) and every bit as fun to fly as its little brother. Granted there are a few issues, such as wind tolerance..but this is a common problem with most every co-ax heli in this class, since they always seem to have an under powered tail rotor motor.
BalasHapusAs far as durability though, this thing is VERY durable. we got it up to about 150 feet high, and suddenly there was a gust of wind that took it away... we had to follow it about 1/8 - 1/4 mile to retrieve it (as I kept the throttle on, since it was flying above houses, roads, cars etc, and I wanted to see if we could get it down in an abandoned area...fortunately we did), and I saw it drop about the last 75 feet out of the sky when it went out of range, as we couldn't keep up with it the whole time running. It came down in a walnut orchard. Fearing that I'd get to it and find a pile of rubble, I was amazed that only the skid had cracked, so I set it down, and viola...flew it back home... all this took place in a couple of minutes.
The battery life was astonishing for the first few flights, much longer than the 5-8 min 'average'..probably got about 12-15 minutes...though now I do get the usual 5-8 minute battery life. I'm thinking of putting in an 11.1v 2200maH battery instead (while the ads say that 7.4 1500maH battery is the stock battery, this one came with a 11.1v 1100maH battery)
Since that 'big nearly uncontrolled flight' though, I've flown it a number of times, and crashed it a few of them, since I fly in really tight spaces a lot, and it's still in flight worthy condition. While this is not as much fun as flying a collective pitch single rotor heli, doing loops, inverted flying etc... because it's not possible with this class of helicopter... this heli is still a "Heli of a lot of fun" when compared to other helicopters in its class, and certainly at the top of that class (by class I mean co-ax at this price)
Happy Flying.
I guess you have to realize what you are getting with this item. It's a $65 remote control helicopter made in China that is 27-inches long and about a foot high. It's designed for stability and easy to control, indoor flight. It delivers. If you plan on flying the S033g outdoors, you will either need a completely windless day or the willingness to make a few very easy, almost no-cost modifications. The two modifications I prefer are:
BalasHapus1) Snap off the cover, and move the battery as far forward as you can. This will require two 8" cable ties, as you have to cut the existing ties to re-position the battery. Doing so gives the helicopter a little more weight over the nose and helps lean the S033g forward more readily.
2) Using a 3/16 x .115 x 1 nylon spacer (available at Lowe's in the hardware area for about $0.50) you can very easily attach the supplied, spare tail rotor to the S033g thereby giving it 4 blades instead of 2. Again, this allows more forward pitch to fly in slight breezes.
Using those two mods, neither of which require doing any harm to the helicopter, the S033g is a pretty decent little backyard chopper. Of course if you want something that will aggressively fly outside, you're probably better off investing in something like the Blade 300X ($320 plus $130 for the radio control). At $65 you just can't beat this heli, but you should also understand it has some limitations.
I have read several reviews that mentioned that control sometimes drops and the copter falls.
BalasHapusIt turns out that having the antenna wire wrapped around the landing gear is not such a good idea for some reason. I don't know why that is. But when I tried wrapping the antenna wire around the landing gear on one of my other copters I had trouble. So I unwrapped the wire and just let it hang and it was fixed.
Another good thing to do is add a bit of weight to the front of the helicopter. Just pop off the cowling and plastic strap a bolt or something on top of the battery. I slid the battery forward and also added weight. It flies great now.
The copter is a great value for the price. Do not make the mistake of trying to take off easy because it will drift all over in ground effect. Instead lift off with authority at least a foot off the ground and it will stabilize instantly. Then you can control it easily to do whatever you want.
Hope this helps.
Rick
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I have a Double Horse 9100 ,9101,and 9104. This Syma S033g blows them all away! This thing is very ,very stable and VERY fast! Even in a slight breeze it can stil be flown. The 30" 9101 can't touch this bird. Don't get me wrong,the 9101 flies great,but this S033g is just BETTER!
BalasHapusFirst i must say that i was disappointed by the color as everything indicated (even the box it came in)that it was yellow. I've been flying the smaller co-axial infra red helo's until now. After reading all the reviews I decided to buy the S033G and couldn't be more pleased. The take off was as smooth as silk and the controls were not to sensitive and did not over-react as the smaller ones do. Hovering was truly hands free and the only trouble was with the poorly written chinese instuctions. Especially about the charger. When it is connected you will see both a green and red light. The green light will get dimmer as it charges until it is not visible when the charge is complete. The only negative is the time is takes to charge to get 5 minutes of flight time.
BalasHapusSome the reviews mentioned the 11.1 volt battery's vs the 7.1 that comes with the S0333G. It sounds as if you can change the smaller battery to the larger one and get 10 minutes flight time, but I'm not clear if they mean that it can be done or if they are referring to the orginal model that was equipped with the 11.1 volt battery. I would give this model the highest rating and had none of the problems flying it that some reviews mentioned... such as moving some weight forward, etc. I can see why SYMA is one of the leaders in the field. If anyone has had experience with changing to the 11.1 battery with any success please email me at jackwright1206@msn.com
I just tried a test flight with my changes... went very well. I read one review that recommended moving the battery as far as possible.. I only cut the one plastic cable tie (the one running nose to tail direction, and moved the battery about 1 inch forward with great results.
I am now flying my second S033G and was pleased to find that I did get the yellow one this time :-) The inadquete instructions did not say that i could connect the two red and black power wire connectors together and just forget about them but you can. Just use the "on" and "off" switch is fine. My second one did have a strong tendency to fly backwards so i have moved the battery forward about an inch and found that the skids move forward easily. I can't check my changes yet due to weather but will try to update you more about this when i can test it. The reviews that recommend the larger propellor from the Double Horse 9104 us a vert good recommendation. I just put one on my bird and it works great... the only thing is that you do require a soldering iron to reverse the black and red wires the lead to the tail rotor. I look forward to many happy hours of flying my improved plane when it quits raining. OH... also, you will want to order a couple of extra pairs of landing skids for sure as they will no doubt crack when you land too hard. Just watch the coming down cause once it starts it's hard to stop all the weight... hope this helps y'all and you might want to purchase a "HYPERION EOS SENTRY" FOR ABOUT 25 bucks as it's the only reliable way to check the charge on your battery, it also works for many different batteries and voltages. The green light and red light are reallly useless on the charger that comes with the stock 33G. Good luck and hope this helps.
This helicopter is big! Well worth the money. Gyro works perfect, easy to fly. I just finished flying it outside on my front yard at night and had a great time, the lights are really cool and actually help keep you oriented. I am sure the neighbors think a UFO is flying around. Out of the box it is tail heavy, don't bother adding weights to the front just simply remove the plastic front and remove the tie strap that is securing the battery and move it forward about 2 inches. Then place a new tie strap and a touch of silicon and you are ready to go. On takeoff don't try to do a slow take off, it is far easier just to give it the gas and let it get into the air so it can stabilize itself. The only thing I would like to see different is going to 2.4ghz instead of 27mhz.Don't forget that it has a button on the transmitter that switches the tail rotor from slow to fast, I suggest just keeping it on fast in order to head into the wind easier.
BalasHapus