Scale RC Helicopter Flying - Roban AS350 Winter Flight

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Scale RC helicopter flying during a beautiful winter day out at our new RC flying field here in Valemount BC.
I'm using a GPS tracking camera called the SoloShot 3 Optic 65 which follows the helicopter. It did a pretty good job considering this is the first time I've used it with an RC helicopter. Also showing cockpit views inside the helicopter from a small SJCAM mounted on the back seats.
Full detailed information on this Roban AS350 super scale RC helicopter can be found in the review I did on it along with where to get one:
www.rchelicopterfun.com/scale...
Scale RC helicopter pilot with moving head build:
• 3D Print Your Own Scal...
MAAC / High Country Flyers Valemount BC Field Information:
www.maac.ca/en/clubs_details....
Information on the SoloShot 3 can be found on their website:
soloshot.com/
Gens-Ace 6S 5100 mAh 80C LiPo packs I use in this and many of my other large RC helicopters:
www.buddyrc.com/collections/g...
Video Chapters:
0:00 Howdy Folks
0:37 Roban AS350 battery access
1:30 SoloShot 3 Calibrating
1:55 Flying the AS350
10:07 Landing the AS350
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Пікірлер: 112

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

For detailed information on this Roban AS350 RC helicopter, see my full review on my website: www.rchelicopterfun.com/scale-as350-helicopter.html

@Google_Does_Evil_Now 2 жыл бұрын

So realistic. And I agree that the heavy weight v performance helps it look real. Super cockpit camera. And the moving pilots head is a really great touch. Great work.

@toys5355 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this. What an amazing heli. LOVE the cockpit view with the extremely attentive pilot 👍🏻

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it 🙂

@robertmantell1700 2 жыл бұрын

That is RAD!!!! the pilot turning his head, never seen that before. Way cool!!

@csupersix 2 жыл бұрын

Inside the cockpit, made my day.

@carlos64030 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! John, we need more videos of you flying large scale birds! I love that interior camera view. I'll have to look into picking up one of those GPS tracking cameras.

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

@Carlos Clivilles - hopefully now that I have a field to fly the big stuff at again and camera that might actually work well for this job - I'll be able to act on that request 🙂

@helir00 2 ай бұрын

Outstanding vid. The head rotation really adds more realism - great touch.

@a.byrdii8720 Жыл бұрын

Best POV pilot and cams I've ever seen

@Rchelicopterfun Жыл бұрын

🙂

@doboy861 2 жыл бұрын

That is an awesome video. I liked how you got the pilots to move properly with the heli movement. Great work.

@darrylwindle5331 2 жыл бұрын

hi john, i have been flying rc for 50 years and watched a lot of videos but that was exceptional.... thank you!!!

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@ljaysperspective1775 2 жыл бұрын

Beatifuly executed and the attention to detail is very nice. I can appreciate the pilots view aswel as the tracking of the helicopter. I'm glad to see someone flying a helicopter, I got into this hobby because of my love for them. The hobby aided in me making it thru a serious state of depression years ago. I can't Waite to see you put the new heli together. thax for sharing 👍

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

I so enjoy hearing about how RC helicopters have helped many folks out during life's all too heavy struggles. Same story here; so I thank you for sharing your love of this hobby.

@ljaysperspective1775 2 жыл бұрын

@@Rchelicopterfun Enjoyed your vids and will visit to subscribe. I look forward to the new build.👍

@jeffmullinix7916 Жыл бұрын

You are a master of flying heli's .

@thomasbradfield5534 5 ай бұрын

I just want to thank you for all of your videos, it has helped me extremely. Beautiful heli by the way!!!

@Rchelicopterfun 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 🙂

@sirob1fly 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent flight John.

@starshipgus8578 2 жыл бұрын

Great video again,love the cockpit camera footage.

@drewber2006 2 жыл бұрын

do I love Canadians. hard working and friendly . Great work on this scale heli, the moving pilot is so cool I have to watch how you did that next! Cheers from the USA!

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it 👍🙂

@timgilgen2154 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you flying scale again. Beautiful helicopter

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@johnharrison1429 2 жыл бұрын

John, you've finally mastered your craft. Lol. Love the scale flying skills along with the interior camera angle. 👌 👏

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

🙂

@user-qg8hr6uc1e 2 жыл бұрын

So awesome. . .

@1983dmd 2 жыл бұрын

Simply amazing! Really looks like a real one!

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you - Cheers

@hammerdown4848 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool 😎🤙

@Maltojo 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video, John. I am a future scale flyer. The 3D heli's are interesting, but I've yet to see a real helicopter "cut the grass". My goal is to get enough experience to fly a 700 scale like a real one would behave (whether it's a scale model or an Align 700E kit). Thanks for the inspiration! Your website and e-book's are my "go to"' spots for anything RC Heli. Keep up the great stuff!

@JoeOvercoat 2 жыл бұрын

I can see where many would find acrobatics fun, but I would be more impressed to see a winch lift. I am not asking for a scale diver, even. Just hook something.

@Viper81BB 2 жыл бұрын

John I'm wathing your's video's since I started flying helis. Nice video! Go on and do Your's Job ! Great !

@AlexBongRCFunLand 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice in-cockpit view!! nice bird too!

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

🙂👍

@RCPMK 2 жыл бұрын

Really nice place to fly!

@flatspin 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible video! I love everything you do for the hobby. Thank you for all of your informative and entertaining videos! Helis are so much fun to fly!

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them 🙂

@OA_RA_FBA_FBM 2 жыл бұрын

This is a really cool video 👍🏿

@williamwilkinson2748 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video.

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit

@passinthru4328 2 жыл бұрын

That's impressive technology there. The Soloshot by and large is doing a good job of tracking your heli.

@ianb2877 2 жыл бұрын

Great Heli, fantastic backdrop for flying in, the cockpit view was great made even more special with the pilots head movement. A really good show, thanks for sharing.

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Thank, you too

@michaeldomanski2472 Жыл бұрын

incredible detail and outstanding piloting

@Rchelicopterfun Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@juniorwest5706 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful helicopter and even more beautiful flying area , 😎👍

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, it was a lot of work last year getting this flying area approved. Started the process in January, got final approval in September.

@befreebailbonds3329 2 жыл бұрын

This is awsome, I love it. Would be cool to see it with a FPV Camera. Great work and love the content, Thanks.

@gdhall5311 2 жыл бұрын

I have had a 700 KDS Innova kit for quite some time now and I am slowly getting the electronics for it, watching you fly this heli makes me want to fly mine. Very nice flight John.

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gregory - glad it helped get the heli building bug moving again 🙂👍

@123windyron 2 жыл бұрын

Sweet!

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

🙂

@leonbroekharst4724 2 жыл бұрын

Super heli

@cloudninefpv Жыл бұрын

Nice landing 👍

@Rchelicopterfun Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit

@junebugrc3015 2 жыл бұрын

This Heli looks great the head swivel is awesome 😁👍👍

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

🙂

@shanehoule9477 2 жыл бұрын

Nice heli man

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

👍🙂

@larrychamel 2 жыл бұрын

Well, John... You have most certainly done it again! Beautiful Scale Heli, beautiful Fuselage, fantastic Pilot and in Heli Camera views and sound are incredible! Although the external camera tracking was off a little at times, the camera works and operates beautifully. Such gorgeous detail from the external camera, for the most part it tracks and zooms in wonderfully. Another great Flight and another magnificent video and editing, John. Take care my friend and stay safe, stay warm and stay healthy!

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Larry - it was a fun day 🙂

@larrychamel 2 жыл бұрын

@John Salt Always my pleasure, John!

@waynemichano4661 Жыл бұрын

Flew in the AS(AStar) during a Moose Census years ago with Parks Canada l

@55561arun 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful machine and flying, here iam still struggling with my 150 size heli to get a nice scale flight.. :D, ur tutorials helped me very much to get a a hold on it. :)

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

This hobby is a fun journey - enjoy every minute of it as you progress 🙂

@markrice23 2 жыл бұрын

That's beautiful. Wish I had the resources and space for some scale flying. The camera is good as well, probably just as good as asking a human to film for 10 minutes.

@robbieaussievic 2 жыл бұрын

.... Well done Mate, build the tracking cam into your R2, (it could chase the target down the road).

@udzeeroy7030 Жыл бұрын

👍

@cjb405 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely scale flying, i would love a scale heli but they are so much more expensive than the sport flying types and cost gap is even larger than that of scale planes....one day lol🙄

@Ego.monster 2 жыл бұрын

That is some cool sh!t

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

😀

@Powershotknecht 2 жыл бұрын

great Modell! i need Insta 360 One x 🙂

@dallas1179 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome vid John. Ive been following your journey with this heli since reading your review on your website. Tail seems to be holding well. How do you find the asymmetric tail blades? Can you still get the tail to blow out? Love these Roban scale helis. Ive been eyeballing an MD500 myself 😉

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

@Dallas117 - they are an improvement over the stock symmetrical tail blades, but you still have to manage your torque and constantly be aware these big zeppelins don't have (nor should they), the tail lock and authority of a standard pod & boom aerobatic performance bird.

@RCPMK 2 жыл бұрын

the 800 size Roban 500s are massive

@jc7chavez819 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice machine..this heli is used by police in LA

@RCStuffvideos 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice. A flight in a real one of those is what got me into flying. If like to see a pro do some 3d on it.

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Can't do any aerobatics with it (too heavy, not enough power, high disc loading, non-symmetrical blades).

@RCStuffvideos 2 жыл бұрын

@@Rchelicopterfun thought it'd probably be the case. Would love to see an enormous 3d scale heli sometime though.

@jacksonrcaviation 2 жыл бұрын

Real nice indeed, looking to get into helicopters on our channel 😎

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

🙂👍

@cburgos2 2 жыл бұрын

Wow beautiful flight, video, and special Effects! (Pilot moving). Would love to see this with an air wolf! 😎. So while I fly a drone now, I too started with hells but can never master it (200 size). I know a lot tech has emerged in the last few years, I would love to get back into it. What Heli would You recommend? I too happen to love scale! Big fan, downloaded early training booklets from you years ago!

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Claudio - Leaning to fly collective pitch hasn't changed regardless of technology and I wouldn't say any heli today is any easier than it was a decade ago to learn on & fly (unless you use GPS autopilots or self level stabilization which won't do you any favors if scale or aerobatics are your end goal). The same learning to fly fundamental apply today as they did 30 years ago. Ground up learning method, master the tail in hover, work toward your side on orientations, circuits, and nose in. Then repeat for all the inverted orientations if getting into acro. Practice, practice, and more practice. I give heli recommendations on my Best Heli page: www.rchelicopterfun.com/best-rc-helicopter.html Quickly however & it of course depends on budget, but you can't go wrong with an OMP M2 in my opinion if you want something that is fairly robust, fairly easy to see, and behaves similar to a larger heli (to the extent the laws of momentum & inertia allow).

@cburgos2 2 жыл бұрын

@@Rchelicopterfun thanks John. In love watching scale air wolfs 450-700 size and find it facing ting as you describe in your video. Perhaps it was the models I started with, Walkera, but had a tough time hovering them. With indoor mini I did fine, like old nine eagles etc. Perhaps lack of knowledge, but it seems not many are making scale RTF helis, at least here in the USA. But will look into your suggestion, OMP.

@JoeOvercoat 2 жыл бұрын

8:53 The tracker appears to be using some predictive algorithms to make up for the GPS lag, where that looks like a case gone bad. I wonder if you held it there if it would’ve eventually drifted back over to the helicopter, or if that offset would ‘stick’.

@Don.McLaughlin 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent flying. Noticed you are using a FrSky tx...would you trust the Radiomaster TX16S on a bird that size? I've had zero issues with mine and am tempted.

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

I would have no reservations using a TX16s to fly this heli.

@scottmilano2940 2 жыл бұрын

Do you fly FPV too? Putting a DJI-Vista camera on that pilot's head would make for some really interesting FPV.

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

LOS 100%

@flyboywbl 2 жыл бұрын

FRSKY for the win!! Is heli setup easy? I think im gonna get the Roban Huey. I have the X18 and X20S

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Is heli setup easy? Depends on how much experience you have setting up collective pitch RC helicopters. I don't think anyone would call it easy, and it's certainly harder these days with computerized radio and flybarless systems over mechanically mixed CCPM and trusty mechanical flybar stabilization. With that said, it's still a very logical process of both mechanical and radio programming steps with only a few special helicopter setup tools involved. Once you've done a few helicopters, it certainly gets easier and more intuitive. I have written two ebooks on the entire process: 1. www.rchelicopterfun.com/rc-helicopter-tips.html 2. www.rchelicopterfun.com/swashplate-setup.html

@flyboywbl 2 жыл бұрын

@@Rchelicopterfun I've set up my Trex 450, Hirobo Sceadu 30 and Thunder Tiger Raptor 50, but that was all Futaba. I have the pitch gauges and swash plate leveler. Just been about 6 years since I dabbled in heli's. But these scale birds are so sweet I just need one. I dug out the Trex (the battery still charged!!). And have been hovering in the backyard. Man I want the Huey so bad. I want to rig a sound system to it and blast "fortunate son".

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Then I suspect you would have no issues setting up a Roban scale bird - they are the same more or less. Not sure I would recommend a big robbie as a good first scale heli project, but looks like with all your RC modeling experience, you wouldn't have too many head scratching moments 😀

@flyboywbl 2 жыл бұрын

@@Rchelicopterfun thanks!! Yeah I have just never set one up on a FRSKY radio. But I'm by no means any good at it. I'll have to go through the paces. Thanks to the links to your ebooks!!

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

If you are by chance running Open or EdgeTX on your FrSky's, I do have a video going over my Open/Edge TX Heli Template: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jsp2gtGVta2bqKM.html Even with it, the basics of collective pitch heli setup are the same, just the programming of the radio input/mixing/output and associated menus are different from a conventional computerized radio with a pre-configured built in heli template.

@br6477 Жыл бұрын

Sir, Please Make a video of RC helicopter with every details and part by part. That will be help for making a RC Heli for us

@Rchelicopterfun Жыл бұрын

Already have one - a full build summary going over every part; both mechanical and electrical of a typical collective pitch RC helicopter: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aLRjbMihzdmZp2w.html Of course, every heli is different and your best source for specificity is the build manual that comes with each heli kit.

@timmythomas4132 2 жыл бұрын

Ever tried Maxamps Batteries?

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

Over-priced, over-hyped.

@28EduardoSierra Жыл бұрын

Will flying that cold make all plastic rod end brittle

@Rchelicopterfun Жыл бұрын

+1 Celsius (34F) is practically shorts weather here in Canada - haha. No issues at that temp. I've flown helis down to -10C (14F) for over 3 decades now and never once had an issue with ball links becoming brittle (grease starts stiffening up in some servos which is more of a concern). Of course, don't take my anecdotal experience for anything but what it is; you would really have to do a material analysis to determine a correlation between temp and link strength. Seeing that most ball links are made from Nylon that is where to start. -100C seems to be a popular number that comes up for Nylon/polymer strength thresholds, but it of course totally depends on the type of Nylon/polymer. Regardless, I'm sure the majority of ball links would be fine, even well below my own personal winter flying comfort level of -10C (14F). 🤔

@nled 2 жыл бұрын

Which SoloShot were you using? Optic25 or Optic65?

@Rchelicopterfun 2 жыл бұрын

@8128gas Жыл бұрын

How easy is it to fly. I fly r/c airplanes but want a helicopter now

@Rchelicopterfun Жыл бұрын

Collective pitch RC helicopters are for most people a steep and long learning curve. I cover this question in detail on my "Are RC Helicopters Hard to Fly" page on my website: www.rchelicopterfun.com/are-rc-helicopters-hard-to-fly.html And you certainly don't start or learn on scale. You start with pod & boom and slowly work your way up to something like this.