RC Era - MD500 | C189 - RTF Heli - Unbox, Build, & Maiden Flight 

5 blades turning counter clockwise direction, with tail rotor on the left side, is very scale to the real thing. great effort the manufacturer put into developing this heli.

This heli looks awesome, damn wish they had this stuff when I was like 50 year’s younger!

hey from UK England first time watching this really enjoyed it massive thanks for you and your wife and the camera crew. nice peace of kit seem very easy to fly hope google will work with you guys and just support you to thank you for your time, 👍

That really looks like a detailed machine. Super cool with a good price. So awesome that you're still messing with helis! Nice detailed video 🚁💨💯

Thank you for your service

Glad to see my favorite rc youtubers finally gettin their hands on this 😁 i had to get mine in black

Thanks Brian, Great Job, always so appreciated!!

Thanks Brian! Always enjoy your videos.

Commented before but now I have nearly 20 flights on mine,awesome helicopter and I enjoy flying it very much,brilliant heli ❤

Good afternoon Brian, very beautiful helicopter model and easy to fly, thank you very much for the videos.

Scratching 1 inch high speed over ground is so crazy fun!I got the Coast Guard version.

Been watching your RC videos for a while now and once I saw this one I decided to order this heli and man are you on point about so many things… I started flying rc helis and planes about 15 years ago and always preferred scale helis for sale but NOTHING like this one. As 3D heli flying became a thing we started seeing less and less scale helis being sold and then drones came out and that was pretty much it. Glad to see them coming back. To your point though, there was nothing line this 10 years ago. The fact is made of hard/heavy plastic blows my mind. I even enjoyed the tedious accessories build part as it reminded me of when I built my first align trex 450 kit. You’re also spot on in that with these helis we fly them a bit when new and then off to the shelve they go so it’s always great when they make beautiful static display models! Great job with your channel. Looks like you and your wife have fun with it. Nice to have that large outdoor area to fly all those toys!

Great looking Helicopter, great video as always

Man that heli has a Great flight time. Impressive!

I'm a heli guy. My favorite is blue thunder all the way.! If this company makes them,,trust me I'll get it.. But please, ,put some more love in it😊

A must have 4 my collection..would b super on the show..

I'll definitely buying it from the site thanks.

Great video thanks Brian. I think the skids look in scale- there is a high skid and low skid version for the Md500s and MD 530s so this model is a high skid one. Looks fantastic and nice flying.👍👍

Hello from Germany!🙂 I definitely need one of these nice MD-500 choppers. I would buy the one with the "Breitling" (yellow with red stripes) livery. But at first I ordered me a RC ERA C187 ("EC-135"). That's also a very nice looking heli, and one of your videos is proof for that.🙂👍

I have one... and it is easy to fly and its alot of fun to play with. The only draw back is that it does not take off and just hold position. When you take off you always have to constantly adjust the trim every time you face in a different direction. And just the slightest breeze and it will do its own thing. Must keep active on the sticks. Like he says about wandering and it drifting. Its definitely worth it. Oh and the charge last for a good 15 to 20 mins. So you will not find your self having to land right after you stake off.

Very informative and comprehensive review. I crashed and ruined my first one in about 5 minutes in the garage. I failed to calibrate it. I was able to get some hover time to adjust trim, but it was too drifty without the calibration and I bent the rotor assembly/shaft on a crash. I've since gained more experience flying my Syma indoor helicopters and now with the calibration knowledge I ordered another one to arrive end of the month. Now i will have 4 batteries and a backup controller. Lol

Thank you

Great video man, I was thinking of making this my next Heli purchase think you sold me thanks!

I always loved those MD's....I used to watch Airwolf just to see the villains MD 500's in action lol

Great Christmas gift for my son. 👍

The Blue Thunder blew that thing to bits!

Probably my favorite helicopter in this size range. I want to buy two more.

on the landing skids on the one I bought . the landing gear screws you have to watch to not over screw or you will strip them out . I use nail glue and the screws to make it rock hard .

good report guy....flies good...and more bang for the buck....awsome...

Hey Brian! I have this chopper in my Ali Express cart. Just waiting for a sale. As an RC hobby flyer with 40 years of stick time, I want to thank you for honest, real reviews. Also, we get to know you and the camera crew 😁. I really enjoy your channel. This hobby is awesome for all ages, and is more accessible now than before when we had to build our balsa planes and had to deal with gas engines all the time. These plug and play choppers are amazing.

That’s such a cool looking Heli. Great Christmas gift. 👍🏻

Really impressed with this heli 💯

I have the Coast Guard one and now gonna get this one 💯

Nate and Abby just published a vid on this one, yesterday. Their result was quite different… 😂

I loved the second sentence of this comment, “make sure you follow your local regulations….IF you’re into that kind of thing” 😅😂

Love it when RC manufacturers produce an affordable SCALE looking heli including the most important - rotor blades configuration! No way would I get this if it was all the same except had a 2 bladed main rotor. Got a red & white one on the way. I vote they make a Kamov Ka-26 one of my favorite funky flying machines ever.

Very cool

I'm a 1 and done bought a 1000 heli years ago crashed it to many times. Ahhh! so different now Killer!! Clint

I like the look of this heli, might consider purchase.

The RC Saylors demonstrated this particular model. It took off straight up without warning and had to be brought down with a kill switch, causing it to crash and be damaged. There went a $250.00 helicopter. 😢

It was nice to meet you two at Bigfoot. I hope you come to B’Ham Jam next April. I hope you’re getting the YT stuff figured out

At Banggood i got it for just €150 and i love it! There are bugs in some batches tho. I had a friend buy one and take off on his 1st go finding the heli not stabilizing but going into space. Like the optical flow was not kicking in. It crashed ofcourse but i hope he gets a new one soon so we can fly together.

There's an older movie out I think from the 70's called "Birds of Prey" with David Janssen. Pretty cool movie with lots of flying of Hughes 500C model I think and Aerospatiale Lama. Good one to check out if you like that sort of thing.

Hi Brian, I've been following you a long time a go. I Really love your channel. I like the way how you review the RC it so very detailed and well explained especially the Unboxing. Thanks for this review. Mine is arriving today. Waiting to deliver at my door. Great video Brian. Two thumbs up 👍👍

I ordered one of these,united kingdom,cheers ❤

might get one

i love your review videos😍😍

outstanding as always

I ordered another one from Bangood 💯

In the UK especially London all the Hobby shops have closed down so my local hobby shop with brilliant would help you out with anything I had a slip pull start somehow it fixed itself some idiot bought really crappy glow plugs ended up bust in my engine so I was wondering if there was any tricks or how to fix so I can screw the glow plug back in HBI trophy waterproof nice car buggy proper basher just need a little bit help

Awesome hey ....my all time favorite helicopters the md 500 and the egg shaped one is my favorite of the two .magnum pi. I actually built two of the larger scale fuselages of both years back with 450 internals .wich is just a unrealistic acrobatic style heli with canopy off.. / skids . But I never flew either ended up selling them. But the tech safe wasn't out then.. . Be nice to see you take the large 450 scale fuselage magnum pi style the egg and put it together with the cheapest rtr 450 china internals with safe . Best price on fuselage and the heli to install into it. Just for some nice scale flight no acrobatics.. also it would be nice if you could have shown that heli you just unboxed with all the others in size an price range displayed on table so everyone can see offerings an sizes ..hope the pond goes smoothly isn't there a kick back somehow for providing waterfowl with a pit stop sanctuary I mean. .....rite but ya I always loved the guy who outfitted a large rc tank with Fpv and a paintball gun to keep geese out of his pond. Awesome content Bryan . .. but honestly it's all camera girl 🤭👉❤ 🤫

I just purchased the red MD500 due to the fact I like these models. I have a 600 MD500 and not a beginner. Your video was right on the money. Drifts and jittery. But the heli looks awesome.

Nice video, Just order one !!!

Thanks Brian for all the info vids . So my new RC heli. RTF purchased. Keeps just stopping and falling out of the sky , after a couple mins of smooth flight. Why do you think that's happening? Any advise will help. I've checked all the batteries, connections etc. Everything that way seems ok.

I've definitely noticed an obvious lack of items arriving in garbage bags from rcgoing. Always a plus 👍

18:11 , direct drive brushless motor, that simplifies a lot the manteinance in case of accident

wonderful I liked it a lot! Do you think it is possible to install a flysky receiver and control? Is it possible to install a higher quality esc? I'm a little suspicious of the quality of the stock electronics... thanks for sharing

That little guy is sick Brian! Love it man!

Thanks for another good video! Is the body shell durable or very fragile? Some helis have very fragile body shells. Your answer will be appreciated.

Thinking of ordering me this one to i have the Coast Guard one but really liking the Military Paint Scheme 💯

I assembled the rocket pods, and the tube portion, and mounted them backWARDS. The long part of the tube is towards the back. Do you believe this will throw the CG off? I have flown the model and it flies fine. But I noticed that yours and mine do the toilet bowl wobble. If you leave them off it looks corny. So I have them on but was just wondering about the rocket tubes.

so many words for this tiny model....

Ordered red one as I prefer non kill people themed aircraft personally plus it's more visible.

Hey brian is youtube still giving you trouble? Hope all is well!! Thanks for the content and time you guys put in

LOL Yea that computer can fly that Heli.

It's good to Calibrate it before each flight

#1 Again... 🤣🤣😁😎

I'm gonna go for another one which would you suggest C189 MD500 are the F06 EC135?

zajebisty 😲

Он такой маленький и звук, как у комара ❤

needs a Hawaii 5-0 color scheme

I figured it out got mines working

This heli has been out for quite awhile now and I know it can bind to a Radiomaster or similar multiprotocol TX but no one is talking about that yet which is frustrating. I just want to know what settings can be modified or adjusted with a proper hobby grade TX. I'm sure that it could be set up to fly amazing well with one of them, maybe even turn off the altitude hold and adjust a boat load of other settings? Don't know, seems that it's top secret at the moment. :(

Great video 👍👍beautiful heli. Where did u purchase the heli ?? Thank you😀

Super - Modell ! 🙋‍♂️🇨🇭😄👍

I just ordered me one the Camouflage version i have the Coast Guard One ❤ 💯 Helicopter

Kind of reminds me of the Ikarus Piccolo.

have same bird. In my case it seems that I have adjust the trimming every single time I start a new flight. It does not hold the settings from prior flights.

Hi Brian. Thanks for the nice review on c189. Just maidened mine, decided to use manual takeoff mode at first. I took off OK but then it continued to climb even though I was holding left stick down. Would've been a flyaway but hit a tree limb at about 100ft. up. Only damage was 1 broken main blade after crashing in grass. Next flight I used auto takeoff, all went well. Maybe I need to recalibrate? Or just always use auto takeoff?

So what is a good one to fly inside.

Cool looking bird. Pilots please take off and land. Auto takeoff/land for what? Why not auto fly? You're a pilot not a spectator. Learning these two skills is a great way at becoming more subtle at the sticks and it's really fun especially for a scale heli. Learning ground effects makes you really good at reacting to issues you may run into when flying. Thx for flying helis Brian.

I am afraid of the flyaway. I turned my heli on and held it in my hand and after initiating the unlock and spool up., I throttled up and it seemed to climb in my hands and would not respond to the control. I have seen this in other videos. I heard that it has no optical yet they sold it as having Op-FLOW. I have a small camera in the belly?

Please the option to switch to mode 1?? acceleration at right? thank

...can it carry weight like a GoPro?

Hi, is it capable of a steep bank maneuver just like on the real version.

ЭТО ПРОСТО МУХА 🪰

A number of RU-vid videos are showing Fly-away situations with this C189, have y'all had any similar issues?

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So, it appears that there are still defective ones still being sold. I just picked one of these up and on the third flight, it just took off up and up and up... had to crash land it as best I could in some tall grass. Minor damage,, but now it only goes one direction... UP. I bought mine through amazon (thank god) and with amazon's help, I am trying to work with the seller to get it replaced or refunded, I would prefer it replaced. I did a thorough dismantle and inspection.. mechanically it is absolutely fine, so the problem is either in the electronics (fc motherboard) or the transmitter (controller) I will know more once I can get the replacement. After that, I will try buying a new fc if there is no resolution to the problems.

do you know the highest wind speed the c189 can take ?I think its 7 knots . any higher you might have to land far away. It wont be powerful enought to bring it back. please advise if you know?

Have you experience any fly away yet with this model?

NIIIIICE 👌🏻

Yep a lot of big channels have gone to the wall because of Google and RU-vid. Blessings from Ireland ❤️ Eamon

Can you fly it without the armery?

do they sell individual part replacement? esc boards, motor, mechanical linkage wear parts etc etc..... i know this is toy grade at ~ $200 ...or is it bettery to buy a heli from horizonhobby with local parts support ?

Thanks. Santa Clause will bring this Heli to me :-) 😊😊😊

Suporta vento esse helicóptero😮😮😮😮😮

I wonder if this company will make any other models like the Bell 407, Bell 412, AH-1Z or any Airbus Helicopters...

I don’t know for how many years i ask to horizon to do scale heli using the existing ones . But clearly they don’t care at all , beside the 230 of course.