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I’m not sure Greg as I don’t know much about turbines but space is limited so I doubt it and you’d really struggle getting the heat and exhaust gases out

It was packed really well and in fact took sometime to get into it! Thank you. The build is coming on well 👍🏻

Unfortunately work has got in the way but I have now recently started it. First job was to fill the holes of the cable cutters, as they are not period correct plus to fill the slots where the rocket pods fit as I want a “slick” not gunship

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Yeah I’m excited and nervous both at the same time

@@siholley now the maiden on that would definitely have me nervous 😬

I’ll have to do some new video as I have definitely progressed 👍🏻 Thanks

Thank you 👍🏻

Thank you 👍🏻

Thank you mate 👍🏻

Yes that’s absolutely true. I’m now looking at getting the larger 550X 👍🏻

@@siholley The 550X is only a shade bigger. You should jump to at least a 700. (I have a 550X and 800 Pro) If you can fly a 500, you can fly anything.

@@yzScott Yes true, just trying to be cost conscious as well mate

@@siholley From 550 up, the price difference is not that large. There is a lot of parts commonality. The batteries really add up though when you get over 6S. And the 550X is the biggest 6S, of course. If you do get the 550X, you'll love it. It's just a little more of everything you love about the 500. I'd just save a little longer and get something more different from what I had, in your spot.

@@yzScott thank you for the info Scott, I really appreciate it. Will let you know what I end up getting.

Thank you so much 👍🏻

@@siholley anytime I’m here if you have questions

Hi, my gyro is not set in my transmitter, it’s set in my Ikon 2 fbl. In my transmitter it shows “Inhibit” and THR -100%, AIL 0%, ELE 0%, RUD 0%, GER 100% and PIT -51% Hope that helps

Thank you Melvin. Yes it’s a great heli and pretty stable for its size so long as it’s not windy

@@siholley Your welcome Simon, yeah the wind is a big factor when flying our helis, I too am very weary of flying my 120 S2 in windy conditions, but all together I just love flying rc helicopters.👍🏻

@@melvinquinene4778 Yes absolutely. You need to go bigger for the wind to have less affect. Check out my video of my Trex 500 maiden flight, it was blowing a Gale that day but that heli took it fine

@@siholley Will do ! I will eventually upgrade to a bigger heli as soon as funding is available 👍🏻

You’ll get there, practice, practice, practice and then practice some more

You have to practice, practice, practice and then practice some more. Get a simulator, that really helped me. And minimum four batteries for your 230 so you can get plenty of flight time to practice. I’ve only been flying since July 2020 and am confident enough now that I fly only in stunt 1 or stunt 2 And fly a Trex 500X too

Stick with it, you’ll get it 👍🏻

Thank you so much mate, much appreciated 👍🏻

I thoroughly enjoyed building the 500X and would recommend getting one mate. Intimidating to fly but I’ll get used to it. My plan was to go from my 230 to a 330 then the 500 but currently 330’s are out of stock. And I got a good deal on the 500. If you find the head you need in US I can help you get it! Thank you for your comments and kind words

@@siholley so you went from 230 to 500? Thinking of doing the same. This one is supposed to be pretty smooth and stable I hear

@@mrbushpilot yes I did. I didn’t intend to do it that way but it’s how it worked out. The 500 is a big step size wise and hence super intimidating at first but I know I’ll get used to it.

@@siholley nice one. I'll probably do it too then. No rush for me still have more room to advance on my 230 for now but it seems like it'll he way more expensive going through every/several size classes to get there if the big knes aren't especially harder to fly. Easier even some people say. Cheers

@@mrbushpilot it’s size makes it more stable. You can hear the wind in the video, it was blowing a Gale that the 230 could never have flown in but the 500 was okay

Thank you. Keep practicing you’ll get there 👍🏻

Thank you so much Ian. And my flying has really come on since then. I increased my Expo to 40% which really desensitised the heli to the point that I could fly it and build up my confidence. Since then, I upgraded from the DXE to a DX6 Gen 3, have practised non stop and now have my expo set at 25% and can fly circuits, figure 8 and just did my first nose in hover for 8 mins non stop!

Wow that's great going!! Your definitely going about it the right way👍😄

@@siholley wow you doing a great job

@@modelaircraft6576 Thank you. That was a couple of months ago now, have progressed massively since then 😊

+Molly Patterson Hi, if memory serves it was about £50 each. You won't need too much money as there isn't much to spend it on other than trips. We did scuba diving and that worked out at about £55 each per dive. In total we spent about £600 in two weeks but we did do multiple dives