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Silverlit PicooZ Twin Blade 3 Channel Helicopter - TandemZ from Silverlit
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Minimum Age: 8 years
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Customer Reviews
Great fun at a bargain price Posted 05 September 2008
I'd been hanckering after a RC helicopter for a while, and one with at least 3 channels, and this fitted the bill on a special offer price of a little over 20 quid.
6 AA batteries are required for the control unit, from which the helicopter cahrges. It needs about 30 minutes for a good 10 minutes flying. Not pictured on the sales images are the two clear plastic stabilising fins which help it stay stable, but they do work,the front one can be removed when experience is gained.
Overall, after the helicopter is trimmed, stable flight can be easily achieved, but it does struggle near the ground as its own draft makes it unsteady. While the body is only polystyrene, its quite robust surviving many crashes into walls at hitting the ceiling. It does often just lose it's way and plummet without any obvoius reason.
Overall a good introduction to RC Helicopters.
Big Boys Toy Posted 26 August 2008
I bought this as a birthday present for my husband and have had great fun watching him trying to master the art of flying!! We've both been amazed at how the helicopter has stood up to the number of crash landings and bouncing off walls and ceilings. Now he's getting the hang of flying it's been quite interesting to see how the helicopter works and responds to the controls, such as hovering for instance.
Highly recommended; in fact, it looks like his work mates are starting to drop hints to partners ready for Christmas.....
Second helicopter- early report Posted 20 August 2008
Hello again,
here's my early review of the TandemZ twin rotor Sea knight/Chinook from Picoo.
As with the first report I would qualify the various star ratings ive given with further detail but since ive done this already in the PicooZ Metro City and they remain the same- just have a look at the first bit of that one for further explination.
As with the first, if you want a quick snapshot review here it is:-
Great fun, more visually imposing, louder and powerful than the PizooZ chopper but much less forgiving thrust/lift when your not on your game. Easier to point and shoot when the trim is sorted out. A longer learning curve involved to master and expect more catastrophic crashes while you get to grips with it but that's why you want one isn't it?
Ok, so I got the PicooZ Metro City a couple of days ago and i'm clearly no master pilot but what follows is the thoughts of someone who's had 24 hours with a Tandem and 72 with a PicooZ.
Hardware- the 'copter you know all about if youve read the other reviews here so i'll just add a bit about the RC unit. Instead of a single trim toggle just under the direction(right hand) stick as with the PicooZ we get two seperate trims in the form of circular dials which are positioned to fall naturally under your index fingers when you hold the unit. This means you dont have to remove your right thumb from the right stick to trim the 'copter- just dial in your trim and away you go. The left trim controls static pitch - i.e how quickly the copter moves forward/backwards without additional input from the right stick(which has a removable idiot grid over it when it arrives- stops all the scary advanced diagonal turn and move combinations that a beginner should be wary of)
Start-up - ive had a few problems with this. Power up RC Unit then power up 'copter at which point the rotors go crazy and the landing light comes on. This can be corrected by holding the copter in your hand, switching on then pressing the landing light button which cuts the light and for some reason the power .From there put it down and crack on as normal. Weird but there you go.
Thrust/lift- personally I find this a lot harder to get right. The toy weighs much more so needs a more positive and progressive punch of power to get airborn. Having done so you need to ease off quite quickly (unless you use it in a church or somewhere with loads of verticle space) as it rockets up quite rapidly. It really requires quite some practice and skill in a normal height room to lift it , ease off but without killing it and then easing the throttle back in to keep height. The weight of it means that if your a bit jerky with it you've had it and the floor beckons!
The single blade PicooZ will forgive you far more lapses of concentration with thrust than the Tandem Z will and I can only put this down to weight.
Trim- because of the additional concentration required to get airborn and stable the trim is going to have to wait a second longer. That second can be catastrophic though as constant crashing and a more sophisticated front rotor action means you have to get the trim sorted qucker or you'll bin it!...again.
Untrimmed, the Tandem has a propensity to yaw and pitch off after liftoff very quickly and this, as already suggested means, the Tandem favours a larger area to get it sorted out in.
I'm afriad I can only give scant report of the third channel- i.e. forward as I crashed so much I think ive upset the front servo in it's casing so that even a fully retarded trim has it dashing forward and the turning control barely works at all.
What I can say though is that I can see how this offers more of a challenge and a reward if you can get it going well. It doesn't do the dip-a-bit-move-a-bit-spin-a-bit repeat that the single does and even though I virtually destroyed mine in one single day I can't really fault it.It's my lack of skill and finess and not the models failures that have caused it.
Am I going to get another and try again?
Does night follow day?
TandemZ Posted 29 July 2008
Having owned 3 PicooZ helicopters, I thought I ought to give the TandemZ a try. It's more versatile than the PicooZ in terms of control, although trickier to master. I found that in a small room, it's easier to control forward motion using the forward/backward trim than with the joystick. The experience is somewhat more exciting for the addition of forward motion to this model; whereas the PicooZ kind of randomly hovers forward, the TandemZ zips around the room. Expect more extreme crashes when it goes wrong!
better than most !!! Posted 04 July 2008
i have purchased several r/c helicopters/aircraft. this rates the best, i can control this better than the others. i am now looking for a larger outdoor model.
hours of entertainment.
i managed to dislodge front stabaliser within minutes, no need for this as i then found it much easier to control the helicopter. this is my favourite SO FAR!!!!!
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