Blade 230s smart | Flight | And Final Review |

[@josvei4052]

Great video, I'm new to helis and using the RF sim to learn how to flight this blade 230S, then when confident I will get one.

[@rcreviews9894]

Thanks, that’s a good approach, learning to fly first and practicing on a flight sim will save you head aches and money, besides if you are planning on getting the 230s smart it does state on the box, “ some experience required “ welcome to the hobby, it’s a good time to be a part of it, the tech behind these helis and radios has advanced significantly over the years in a good way to help people new to the hobby progress with different flight modes and safe, thanks for watching 👍

[@melvinw.quinene841]

Very good tutorial Brother ! You might be referring to the Proportional, Integral, Derivative "PID" with regards to rates perhaps ? Just a guess . Great flight, and gorgeous weather there B !

[@rcreviews9894]

Hey Mr Mel, how you doing brother! I hit LVC on this flight! Scared the shh outta me lol

[@Dynaglide92rc]

Help Please . Collective pitch is not working . Throttle works and so does Rudder on left stick . Right gimbal is fine. Elevator and ailerons move fine . Please help . I'm using the DXs transmitter that came it came with .

[@monicaloftus7073]

I've noticed an open plug port on the left hand side of the frame that's wired to the receiver on mine , any idea what that's for ?

[@rcreviews9894]

Not sure but when I get home I will check mine out to see 👍

[@kevosrcadventures9019]

Could that be where you put the bind plug in, I have one too I'm thinking that's what it might be I'm not sure..

[@rcreviews9894]

@@kevosrcadventures9019 yeah that’s what I thought but I’m not sure so I’d rather find out for sure, I don’t want to give out wrong info 👍

[@rcreviews9894]

So what did you think about that flight time we got ! Lol

[@rcreviews9894]

@@kevosrcadventures9019 did you fly yours again yet Kevo?

[@cydrec]

Hello everyone and Happy New Year ! I just received the Blade 230S Smart BNF equipped with the AR6250MHXA. How to insert the Bind Plug association socket without dismantling everything? In addition, besides the fact that my fingers do not pass and that I do not see the plugs, a plug is already connected to the BIND plug ..... My radio is a Spektrum DX6 G2 EU. All have a happy new year 2022!

[@davidrivero7943]

just found this lol yeah Brother , there's 2 v2 non smart here & they get Flown almost daily, Weather permitting. Good Flight , B.

[@rcreviews9894]

Thanks, I fly mine all the time too, I really enjoy the handling of it, hands off hovering and turns on a dime! It reminds me of a bigger version of my og 200s

[@robbryan3044]

Picked up one of these from Friendly Hobbies (Las Vegas, NV) a little over there weeks ago, as I was heading out of town after Scale Nationals. Granted, I haven't even had the time yet to take it out for it's first test flight...but, based on the several video reviews I've seen (so far), I know it's going to be good. Honestly, I'm not even sure what prompted me to buy it. I got into RC helis a little over a dozen years ago, and was starting to get fairly good...but, one seriously bad disaster, costing me a considerable amount of money to repair led me to selling the three helis (the largest of which was a 360) I had, and vowing to never do helis again. I decided it was best to "stick to the ground", which is how I ended up getting into bashers, off-road racers, crawlers, and, more recently, FE boats. Although I haven't flown mine...yet...I'm happy to be "rediscovering" RC helis.

[@rcreviews9894]

I can understand why you did that, anytime a considerable amount of money is lost and can be preventable in the future, we tend to go into wallet survival mode and that’s with anything not just helis, I’m also really into land Rc’s, one things for sure they are a lot easier and cheaper to repair then Rc helicopters, one thing I can say though, the hobby has come a long way in the past ten years, you will be surprised what these things can do! With safe technology, 6 axis stabilization, panic recovery and live telemetry on board, lemme tell ya it’s an exciting time to be part of the hobby, maybe deep down inside you bought that heli cause your not really ready to completely give it up yet, either way give it a try again, take your time, ease back into it, there’s nothing like that rush you get flying, you know what I mean, I’m sure you remember that feeling, the 230s smart is a awesome heli you won’t be disappointed 👍

[@daveday5507]

The rate switch on mine doesn't do anything and the 'safe' pitch curve is the same as the other two.

[@rcreviews9894]

Hmm are u using the rtf radio? Not sure why those wouldn’t function, I can definitely tell a difference with the dual rates on mine

[@daveday5507]

@@rcreviews9894 Yes, I'm using the RTF radio. None of my existing Spektrum transmitters will do DSMX 11mS. I have a multi-protocol radio which should work. I will try that next That will give me 3 rates and an ajustable pitch curve.

[@ciclopirata4292]

ciao scusami, per i neofiti la levetta D-R va tenuta su 1? grazie mille

[@darrelllockett9721]

Can you do a video from the beginning taking copter out off the box charging and flight preparation

[@gtm624]

Thanks for doing a normal use review. All the cp heli reviews they lift off and immediately flip flopping all over the place. I don't fly like that, does nothing for me, so I want to see the heli fly normally. I dont care how good it can tick tock. lol

[@rcreviews9894]

Yeah I like to fly scale, it’s cool seeing all those tricks but it’s just not my thing and I’m no pro by any means, scale is safer, with longer flight times, thanks for watching 👍

[@akromasanta]

How come the battery on my 230s only last one minute? Even if I charged it for 2 hours, are the same? 3 batteries are the same

[@josephrogina3865]

If Low Rates and High Rates are defined as you describe then what does Expo do? I understand Expo controls the amount of Throw to your servos as opposed to High and Low Rates.

[@rcreviews9894]

Expo controls how sensitive your sticks are on your radio, adjusting expo will effect how much thumb stick movement is required to perform an action, high and low rates are just as I described in this video and control how sensitive the heli itself is, not the sticks on your radio.

[@Ares0025]

i just bought one for christmas i cant wait hopefully it survives its first flight. 😆

[@rcreviews9894]

I’m not sure how familiar you are with flying but if you are new be sure to read your instructions, take your time and get to know your radio, fly in safe if you are new and you should do just fine, it’s a good set up and a very stable bird 👍

[@Ares0025]

@@rcreviews9894 thank you i am a beginner. I am training with a simulator on Pc i am trying to fly nice looking circles at the moment it's harder than it looks but it gets better every day and it's a lot of fun when you make some progress really great hobby will of course use safe mode for my first flight 😊

[@rcreviews9894]

@@Ares0025 nice 👍 well you are definitely going about it the right way, a good flight sim can definitely give you the skills you will need to fly and keep the heli in the air, the best part is,on the flight sim, crashes are free 🤙🚁

[@josvei4052]

Do you think is possible to use a Rediomaster TX16S (including rates and fight modes) with this heli? . As that radio is so popular right now for drones and planes it would be a popular video the setup of the radio with this new blade.

[@rcreviews9894]

I’m not sure, I’m not familiar with that radio, blade helis have a spectrum receiver installed, so I’m not sure if it would be compatible, but you probably could switch it out with another one

[@josvei4052]

@@rcreviews9894 I got a Spektrum WS2000 USB dongle today, I can confirm that the Radiomaster TX16S binds to it, actually it works better than the FrSky XSR-SIM as it maps the Flight Mode and the Panic buttons. So I will take the risk and get the BNF version of this Blade 230s Smart as soon as I can get fly without crashing on the simulator.

[@rcreviews9894]

@@josvei4052 that’s what’s up, sounds like you got it figured out then, good luck 👍

[@glenn4452]

I also have the tx16smax&spetrum nx6,would like to be able to connect the radiomaster

[@KnightsGarage]

Bro I have bought two of these in the past two days. Both have drifted hard to the left in now wind. Sent videos to horizon and they said to send the first one back to the for evaluation and repair. So I figured it was faulty and went and bought a second one and it’s doing the same thing. It drives so hard to the left at times I’m full right stick just to keep it still. No wind because the leaves on the trees around where I was in the grass wasn’t moving at all and I felt no wind. I now have two RTF 230s smarts and the extreme pull to the left makes them very hard to fly.

[@rcreviews9894]

Sorry to hear that man, hopefully Horizon may be able to find out what’s going on, have you tried trimming it out on the radio? It may be way out of trim out of the box

[@KnightsGarage]

@@rcreviews9894 how do you do that?

[@rcreviews9894]

@@KnightsGarage hmmmm I bet that’s your issue!

[@KnightsGarage]

@@rcreviews9894 it maybe. How to I go about doing that? I have two of them now and both are pulling hard left. If I take my right hand off of the controller it just tilts to the left and goes left. Even if I push and hold the panic button it goes lift it does not center and level itself as advertised. I have the ready to fly version also.

[@rcreviews9894]

@@KnightsGarage well it all depends on how it’s pulling to the left, first I need to know if you are aware of how to trim out a helicopter, if you are new to Rc helis then this procedure is something you really need to learn and be aware of or none of your helis will ever fly right, get back to me with that info first and also try to let me know how it’s pulling to the left, you need to hover it on a calm day no wind, tail facing you and slowly let off the right stick to see how it is pulling left, is the nose turning left? That could mean you need to trim the rudder, or is the heli pulling left but the nose is still facing away from you and it’s just pulling to the left where by the heli is going side ways to the left, it is kinda hard to explain with out seeing what the heli is doing but I can make a video explaining what I mean if that will help get back to me and meanwhile read your instruction manual cause I’m sure it explains how to trim it out there, o one other thing have you crashed it at all cause if so, that’s a whole other procedure, let me know and fly safe 👍

[@kurinjalong2757]

Where company you buy the heli boss

[@rcreviews9894]

I got mine from Amainhobby . com

[@gregmcclure2640]

Glad it's working for you--been flying basic helicopters for 13 years. Bought one of these, and have only had 10 short flights interspersed with 3 ugly crashes (in SAFE) with no input from me on the sticks! HH has sent me 3 flight controllers. Junk! Hope your heli doesn't go rogue on you like mine has! I hope HH makes it right! We'll see.......

[@KnightsGarage]

I’m dealing with horizon now. I’ve bought two of these 230s smarts and both drifter very hard to the left causing crashes. The first one went down so hard it broke the frame. All this while I was just attempting to hover.

[@gregmcclure2640]

@@KnightsGarage Been there-done that; cried on the t-shirt! Also bought a UMX A10 with no elevator straight from the box. I'm boycotting HH for a while; working on a single-carb conversion of my 1977 Goldwing.

[@KnightsGarage]

@@gregmcclure2640 Well I’m in kind of deep right now because I’m two helicopters and that’s $660 and neither one of them work properly the first one is on its way to Horizon hobby right now for evaluation and repair. And the second one still pulls hard to the left when flying just like the first one did. If it was as easy as returning them to get my money back I would do that but it appears that’s not an option.

[@gregmcclure2640]

@@KnightsGarage Good luck! They sent me a new helicopter after returning my original with a snarky email saying "in the spirit of good customer service" . New one flies great! New A 10 elevator set up wrong turning it into lawn dart 5 times. Only flown successfully once. Now a "hangar queen". Not buying any more CRAP from HH, or China, for that matter!

[@KnightsGarage]

@@gregmcclure2640 I seen a few people say that it’s the pitch and roll settings in the smart settings that are the problem if you go into the controller for Ford programming and set them to zero it flies like it supposed to but I have the ready to fly versions and I can’t change that stuff. It’s supposed to be ready to fly

[@sawyerheslep8493]

Can you do a size comparison between all your helis?

[@rcreviews9894]

Yeah sure no problem, I thought about doing that anyway, I’m also still trying to get my hands on that 70s so I can review it but that thing is like finding gold right now, every time I check online it keeps getting pushed back

[@sawyerheslep8493]

@@rcreviews9894 dude the 330s got pushed back to November!

[@rcreviews9894]

@@sawyerheslep8493 November! Wow that’s a long way away might as well say Christmas

[@sawyerheslep8493]

@@rcreviews9894 I know, I ordered it back in November! Bruh I dont want to wait that long ! Did you see the new arrma 3s? Supposedly its competing against the traxxas rustler.

[@rcreviews9894]

@@sawyerheslep8493 Glad I got mine when I did then! Lol I got lucky lol yeah the new Arrma Vorteks, I want one! I will definitely have one for the channel! All the bigger KZbin channels have them already, I don’t think it’s out yet cause it says available for preorder, unless it came out and everyone bought them up

[@VOGTLANDOUTDOORS]

BTW… this was supposed to be a REVIEW of the Blade230s, right??.

[@thischildishlifestyle]

Good stuff brother.

[@rcreviews9894]

Thanks 👍

[@kurinjalong2757]

Bro how much one unit malaysia money I want buy

[@rcreviews9894]

329 rtf 229 bnf not sure Malaysia money

[@EMERALDCOBRA]

The controller will show the voltage with the green dots even without the smart battery

[@kevinmissons9183]

A great heli ..I love mine

[@rcreviews9894]

It is, I love mine too, always fun to fly!👍

[@p.r.5628]

Presenting the 230S Smart but refusing to an transmitter equipped with display means to left out all Foward Programming options like adjustable angle limits in stability and more. Allso refusing to the advanced telemetry, offering voltage, current, FET temperature, RPM, output, and even single cell voltage with a SMART Lipo. And you can`t access the 230S Smart`s swash phasing and additional channel for multiblade scale builds. There`s a lot more about the 230S Smart

[@massourc2908]

Great video I like flying helicopters I have the wltoy v 913 and v912

[@rcreviews9894]

Nice, yeah Wltoys is also a good heli I used to have the v911 back in the day!

[@TraxxasGemini3.3]

So “low rates” make it have a softer and more forgiving feel whereas “high rates” are snappier and more aggressive… I assume low rates you could maybe fly 3D/stunts but it’d not be too easy due to not having much “snap/pop/responses” whereas the high rates would make 3D/stunt flying easier to pull off but you need to pay attention more as you can over correct… btw you fly it nicely and she is a beautiful helicopter! I may get one some day… I’ve flown only co-axial/double-bladed helicopters and quad copter drones as I wonder if this would be a great helicopter for one of my skill or should I first practice with a fixed pitch before graduating to a collective pitch

[@rcreviews9894]

You are right as far as the high rates and low rates, I think if you have the basic skills of flight and different orientations, you should be able to fly this one, it does come equipped with safe six axis stabilization just like most quads so you should be fine, thanks for watching 👍

[@ratbagratbag-hu4rj]

Dual rates deal with head speed and amount of throw and gyro

[@jakelang4387]

This heli comes alive on a dx6e. The one that comes with it has barley any collective :( but I was told you can buy a special plug to change the dxs, imagine that hh wants to sell me something lol

[@rcreviews9894]

Thought about binding it to my dx6, just haven’t got around to it yet

[@BF1GUN]

0:54 We're flying in Safe Mode (next to power lines) 😂😂

[@RobisonRacing68]

Jeez! You got 10 mins of flight time!

[@rcreviews9894]

I know right!! Actually now that I think about it, I actually got more than that cause I edited some of the flight footage out lol

[@RobisonRacing68]

@@rcreviews9894 LOL!!!! That's pretty amazing Bryan. :)

[@rcreviews9894]

@@RobisonRacing68 yeah I know, that LVC scared me when it went off I wasn’t expecting it lol, not sure what flight times you would get flying 3d but I know it wouldn’t be any where near what we got in that video, probably half the time

[@williamnale7835]

I just put in two 8 min flights today (windy) on the 1s 150mah battery in a Nano S3. Took a picture of the timer on my radio as proof. Getting the 230 S this week and will bind to my NX10.

[@MightyistheRCGamer]

I really need to purchase a helicopter

[@rcreviews9894]

Yes sir you do, they are really fun to fly👍

[@ratbagratbag-hu4rj]

High rates and low rates ate the head speed rate. Low rate low head speed high rate highr head speed

[@lw3857]

If you are going to explain rates, maybe you should do it on the bench first with a pitch gauge instead of blabbering away while trying to fly? BTW, you said "rates" way to many times (grammar, lol). You may also want to back of the tail gain and get rid of the wag?

[@PIGROLLER1]

NOT a beginner heli at all .