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The majority of micro remote controlled choppers are made for indoor flying and might be used outdoors only under the most perfect weather conditions, because they can easily be blown off course. These micro RC choppers can be controlled in three flight paths: up – down, forwards – backwards and left – right.

This means that the model is capable of fairly remarkably specific manoeuvres. Despite that, accidents do and will occur. ornaments will be knocked off the mantelpiece and some windows might be broken, if the flier is not careful or adept.

So, it is best to practice in the garage or garden shed or even outdoors in fine weather until a reasonable degree of ability has been achieved. it ought to not take long with these mini flying machines.

They are great fun, the sole real drawback is that the small battery will just give between five and seven minutes flying time. Luckily, it only takes 30 minutes to recharge the battery with the AC mains charger or the USB computer-cum-transmitter charger.

Lots of of the indoor helicopters are padded softly so that they cannot do much harm to windows, heads and the like, but not all of them. Some have a metal body so that it bin better protect the motors from crashes. If you want to make one of these safer, try sticking some foam rubber to the nose of the model.

However, actually bumping into things is not the sole problem that indoor RC choppers can cause. As with all choppers, the foremost rotors create quite a downdraft, which can blow items around or off shelves. A letter placed behind a vase may catch the draft, move and knock the vase off the shelf.

Whilst you are flying model aircraft of any type, you should be continuously aware of the health and safety of others. Learn to judge the diameter that the main rotors cover.

With these smaller craft, the sweep of the rotors normally extends well in front of the helicopter, which can present a hazard to eyes and faces. Never fly your chopper where someone may turn a corner and walk straight into it. You have to assume responsibility for your model whether you fly it into someone or they unexpectedly walk into it.

Children are not normally the ones most at risk from a flying helicopter, because you normally fly above their heads. However, most flights will be at a height of about six feet, so adults beware. If you decide to fly your indoor chopper outside, there are extra safety worries.

Power lines are a major worry when flying your helicopter outside in a town.You can do a lot of damage to power lines and you would be responsible for any financial cost incurred.

Two of the foremost advantages of starting flying a mini RC chopper are that: one] you learn how to control the model, mastering basic tricky flight manoeuvres two] you learn health and safety procedures, which will serve you well if you move on to a larger, stronger remote controlled helicopter.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now involved with the Gyro Helicopter S107. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Smart Toys for Kids.

If you would like to start flying or even constructing remote controlled choppers, the best manner to start is at the beginning and the start is with small electric, 7″-8″ long, battery-powered models. These models are very cheap likened to a 12 months ago, when they cost $100-$120 each. Now you can purchase one for $20.

There is practically no assembly work with these small RC helicopters, although you might have to secure the rotors and insert the battery and a child could do that. However, you are not buying this model in order to learn assembly, you are buying it in order to learn flight management.

These small remote control helicopters usually have three channel-control, which gives you control more than flight in three directions: up – down; left – right and forwards – backwards.

This sounds very simple, but you will crash your RC helicopter, because you do not know what you are doing and you are not into any routines. You have almost certainly not worked out how to judge distance and height either.

First, you will crash into things and make rough landings. Second, you will misjudge distances, height and flight time.

These latter are important because, your transmitter and receiver have a working distance of around 30 feet and if you model goes outside that range, you lose control over it – anything could occur!

In addition, the battery will power the chopper for around 5-7 minutes. If the chopper is 25 feet off the ground when the battery fails, you will have a serious crash on your hands.

Luckily, these little replicas are very sturdy with a metal frame, so you will almost certainly merely lose a few of rotors, which are not expensive or a problem to replace. If you trash the whole thing, you have merely lost $20, but what if your model cost $500 and you were only beginning? That would be an expensive manner to learn flying RC choppers, would it not?

These small model helicopters will put up with lots of rough treatment, but you will need spares and these spares can be purchased. Parts are readily obtainable and it is worth purchasing spare main and rear rotors as you buy your model. This is doing you good.

If you make a decision to move up a level after a while, you will realize how useful your practice with a small RC helicopter has been, even though you can just learn so much from these small helicopters. Larger models, say a six or eight foot model will have a lot more controls and need much more maintenance, so start small and learn.

One thing that you will be able to do with your small model will be to use it for photographic purposes. Birds might entirely ignore them, so if you strap a small, lightweight contemporary video camera to it, you will be able to get special footage of local birds. You may even get able to sell aerial photographs of your neighbours’ gardens, with their permission, naturally.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with the Gyro Helicopter S107. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Smart Toys for Kids.

If you would like to purchase a remote controlled chopper, the first thing to do is find out what you would like. There are in essence two categories of remote controlled helicopter and every category has two foremost kinds.

The first option is, do you want a battery or petrol powered chopper and secondly, do you want to buy the helicopter pre-assembled (ready to fly) or do you want a kit? You could also think of size and price.

Some of the small or micro battery remote controlled choppers just cost around $30, so you are not taking much of risk by buying one sight-unseen.

However, larger petrol or nitro powered models cost $1,000 and more, although there are plenty of models in the $200 – $500 bracket. So, price is an crucial factor in how you continue.

You could buy a $30 Syma mini battery powered helicopter on the Web straight away, but if you want something more up market you will have to do some research first. As always, the first thing, if you are a beginner, is to learn something concerning the hobby before you go purchasing anything.

Get yourself a micro chopper and learn some of the skills of flying it. Read some magazines and join a few Internet forums. Go along to a club if there is one in your area or enquire at the local hobby shop whether they know other RC fliers in the vicinity.

They might have a couple of models in the shop that you can look at too, but do not spend hundreds of dollars until you are sure of what you like. As you are formulating in your mind a picture of the RC chopper you would like, note the prices that you see it being sold for.

Forgetting about the cheap mini choppers, if you are purchasing your first ‘real’ RC copter for, say, $100, get one that is crash-proof. Nothing is actually damage proof, if something drops 30 feet out of the sky, something is going to break, so buy a radio controlled chopper that is more robust rather than pretty, because, as a novice, you will crash it.

Because you will crash it, make sure that there are spares readily obtainable in your area or on the Web. You will almost certainly have to replace the rotors, the skids and the canopy from time to time due to crashes. You might also have to replace the motor (or bits of it) and batteries, if you are using them.

Some firms provide, or sell separately, a flight simulation program for your computer. This is a good idea, because you can practice the more awkward manoeuvres without risking damage to your helicopter in a crash. This is one of the questions that you could pose on one of the forums – whether the flight simulator for your model is worth having.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of subjects, but is now concerned with the Gyro Helicopter S107. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Smart Toys for Kids.