Syma f3

[Collectiveinsanity]

I just picked up one of these on sale for practice flying when the weather is bad outside.
anyone on here have one? How does it fly? got several spare batteries. Moving from coaxial to single rotor. and eventually from 4 channel to 6. Better to crash a mini size
4 channel than my 250 6 channel. Was my thinking.


Collectiveinsanity

[pteranodon]

I just got mine as a first heli. I have no experience but am quite disappointed.

I was going to try Radd's method, but the F3 just wanted to do its thing. It would pull forward and right and rotate right. So I thought I would trim it from the TX. No such luck. I maxed the trims to no significant effect. I started adjusting the ball links, as someone in HF suggested for the mcpx (I think). It was a good starting point and with much trial and error I believed I had it in a good place. That was on the first day.

On the second day it started pulling back and left, redid trimming on TX and links, in half turn increments, all day. Much better than initially but still a no go. I still had a rudder trim issue but trims on the TX are too coarse (the sticks don't have much resolution either). It starts turning left slowly (yaw), I correct with 1 click right trim and it starts slowly turning right. At least I'm 'practising' all orientations at once

It would also lose or gain height with no input on the sticks.

I am on my third day with it and seriously thinking I should abandon all hope, let it gather dust on the shelf and get me a 450 size CP to practice with (and a sim of course)