OMP Hobby - M4 Max - PNP 3D Heli - Maiden Flights & Initial Adjustments 

Awesome! Thanks ;) Clay helped me out with this heli, and he and I are going to try to connect to get the M7 in the air, but I'd love to fly with as many heli aficionado's that I can find! Heli's are a different skill set, but flying fixed wing - This I can do ;)

@@BrianPhillipsRC Hit up a Helicopter Event. I have no idea where you are in the country, but I'm sure there will be one within a few hours.

I crashed it, esc was using soft start, so I couldn't get power back fast enough...but wish I hadn't, since this heli was amazing! Waitng on parts now ;(

yeah, I eventually go there, but I'm still pretty timid on Heli's. I spent about 8 hours that night in front of the fully live heli, with throttle CUT on, then later I found the HOLD setting I was missing in the Flight Mode setup...but either way, the heli was safe for me to work with. I just get nervous, since it's REALLY hard to disconnect a battery on a heli, if all hell breaks loose.

May be the audio but it just sounds too slow in this video

The head speed was higher on Stunt 1 and Stunt 2 and both seemed a BIT better, as you said.

It’s the tight tail linkage.

It is sure is very nice! The lower head speed is less intimidating to me, but need way more practice to feel comfortable. I watch these pro-pilots, and makes me feel like I'm some sort of a special needs case..

@@BrianPhillipsRC just comes with practice, the main thing is nail all your orientations, upright and inverted. Then you can fly some of the more complex stuff

What servo did you go with?

It's very limited by me, but by a better pilot, it would be never ending ;)

You mean the TAIL BOOM length?

Thanks Al ;) I can't talk about the mythical creature ;)

I barely move the sticks compared to the "Real" heli pilots like Clay at Buddy RC - he is epicly good! That being said, I still LOVE flying heli's and wish I could get these guys to make some SCALE helis...they're "bones" are so dang good! As for the Draco, when you do, here's a shortcut ;) It's gonna be EPIC, but we can't share any footage or talk about it for a few weeks more :(...... bprc.me/Draco

Megan and I were just talking about this. The hobby companies are missing the mark only targeting extreme 3D pilots. I know there are AMAZING SKILLS involved, and I have huge respect for those that can do it, and for those trying, as I know just how hard it really is...but then there's HUMANS...we don't want to spend 2 days and hundreds of dollars fixing a heli after a crash...I just want these... APACHE COBRA HUEY (that doesn't commit Hari-Kari 3 seconds into flight - more on that later) MD500 (have one - but want bigger) Chinook Blackhawk (have one - but want bigger) Mi-24 Airbus H145 etc...I could go on and on... Why they heck do they think we'll buy every plane, which we do, but not every heli?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! This concept is a place where the hobby industry has missed the mark sooooooooo bad. I really hope they listen. That being said, there are some MFG'ers out there making AMAZING Stick and Boom heli's, like the M4 M4 Max and M7, etc...and that's great for 3D pilots, but I want something that looks the part while I'm flying around like a huge pansi ;) Thanks for being here, and getting it ;)

Brian in good and bad with you for over a decade . Just right before you put flaps on the umx yellow cub, remember that ? Just want to say thank you for the replay and you are spot on with the comments!! happy S.Valentine to both of you guy’s .

Do you happen to know what each of the PID numbers mean? I'd love to her what you suggest. This is where I get put off on Heli's. As you're probably already away, I know a LOT about planes, but get easily lost on Heli's, and I want to get better, but where is all this crap explained? That's a large part of our mission here on RU-vid, helping people work through these details, but why isn't there a modest description in a manual somewhere? Thanks in advance!

@@BrianPhillipsRC I agree the info out there is poor at best on how to tune these flight controllers. For us new guys it is a real headache!

@@BrianPhillipsRC Hi Brian, if you do a search for a guy called coeshow619 on youtube, he knows a lot about heli set-up, in particular adjusting the pid settings to get a rock solid tail. I'm no expert as am just getting into heli's but his vids are a great help.

Thanks!

Disregard the constabulary

I usually only use the video stabilization on my phone (Galaxy S21 Ultra) but unfortunately, my phone updated and changed my settings, so this video had 0 stabilization. :( I never use any sort of auto tracking... it just can't keep up with the planes and I fight it the whole flight. Tracking the planes is all on me.

@@MeganPhillips thank you. You do a great job. I understand the technical challenges associated with what y’all are doing and your channel is primarily my source for all things RC related. I’ve been flying drones for sometime now and was briefly doing RC aircraft many years ago. My cousin and I just bought new Rangers based wholly on the content from your channel. Keep up the great work please. We need it!

Is that not the same, or super similar to this... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DpCwmeviNVY.html