OMPHOBBY M4 Max maiden flight! How powerful is she?

[@RCCopterLove]

Battery life info: After this 8 minute flight I had 22,86 volt restpower in my 6S OMPHOBBY 2000 mAh battery. 3,80 volt left in each cell! So I could even fly longer!

[@OregonMotorcycle]

Wow! What headspeed is that on?

[@RCCopterLove]

@@OregonMotorcycle At that time I was flying with around 1850 rpm. But I found out that in loops , flips and rolls I need some more headspeed: I went up to 2000 rpm and the flighttime with the same voltage per cell is now one minute shorter, so 7 minutes! Best greetings!!

[@danutaschlette4570]

Nice maiden flight! It must be great to see a new built heli for the first time in the air flying! Congratulations!

[@RCCopterLove]

Thank you! Yes, every maiden flight is exiting!

[@matthiasplura6648]

Very nice helicopter and smooth flight. 👍

[@RCCopterLove]

@Matthiasplura6648 Thank you Matthias! This heli is soo powerful and the motor is wonderful silent with low RPM. Thanks for your kind words regarding my first flight on the field! I can't wait to get more confident but unfortunately the rain came back!! Best greetings!!

[@pierreloranger7239]

You say that you are impressed but you are impressive/I don't miss any of your YT videos/thanks Pierre, Québec,Canada

[@RCCopterLove]

@pierreloranger7139 Thank you so much! It was so hard for me NOT to maiden this beauty! My M4 Max was ready but every morning I was looking outside I saw rain, snow and rain again. Every single day! Good that I had my M1 for indoor flying! Best greetings to Canada and a Merry Christmas!!

[@James-T-RC]

Nicely done, Matthias!!! 😄🤘🏻

[@RCCopterLove]

@James-T-RC Thank You James! I thought I was going crazy with all this rain and snow! I felt like in the UK!! 😀 I really know now how this feels: Rain day out day in!!

[@andystevens4130]

Lovely flying very smooth keep up the good work

[@RCCopterLove]

@andystevens4130 Thank you for your kind comment! Now after a couple of days and much more flights I am feeling more and more confident with this heli! It's my goal to fly as smooth as possible! Great that you mention smooth flying!

[@Viper81BB]

Very nice smooth flying. Greetings!

[@RCCopterLove]

@Viper81BB Thank you very much, Krzysiek!! And best greetings back to you!!

[@arekniemiec368]

Super sound 💪

[@RCCopterLove]

@arekniemiec368 Thank you, my friend!! 😀Dziekuje i pozdrawiam serdezcnie!!

[@RubenRC94]

Great flight! Looks like a amazing machine. Can't wait untill you get your hands on the m7! When everything has settled down after the little girl is born in january. I might need to get myself a m4 max as well!

[@RCCopterLove]

RubenRC94 Hi Ruben! Somehow I was sure I was answering you some ago, but I see now that I did not. Sorry. Yes, the M4 Max is a amazing machine! For me it's all the time positively shocking how good this heli behaves in loops, rolls and flips with 1750 RPM! Never any lack of power, RPM very stable, I guess as well thanks to the great working governor of the ESC 85A in the PNP set. Flighttime 8 minutes with still 3,8 volts per cell rest in my batteries - the way I like it to have many hundrest of circles!! I wish you all the very best for he birth of your duaghter and your whole family!

[@RubenRC94]

@@RCCopterLove thanks, best wishes for you and your family as well for the new year! And lots of flight time of course. It's amazing how well the m4 max handles low rpm. My 580 has quite some longer blades, but I don't really like the feel under 2000 rpm. The m4 still seems to have plenty of power!

[@RCCopterLove]

@@RubenRC94 I wish you as well lots of love and joyful moments with your daughter and in 2024 many happy and safe flights as well! I have always a big smile on my face when I hear this silent motor sound at 1750 RPM and see what this machine is capable of at this headspeed. It is as if you would watch a Frerrari but hear the motor sound of a strong diesel truck! By the way, I am using a SIM since a couple of days and I am inverted (on the sim). Transitions upright inverted and upright again are safe, but hovering on one place, my big goal, needs still a lot of training! But I love the SIM!! Better late than never!! :)

[@OregonMotorcycle]

Just got my ///M4 Max in the air. Absolutely love it. It’s my best heli ever. I like it better than my Align 6-700 size helis I’ve had before. Flys better and it’ll be cheaper to crash;). I have the ///M2 Evo and my ///M1 Evo shows up tomorrow. I had the tail wag too. Once the linkage loosens up it’ll go away. I changed my servo set up too and that helped. I also had to balance my main blades. Did you have to balance anything? Thanks!

[@RCCopterLove]

@oregonMotorcycle Meanwhile I have done some changes in the setup, a bit higher tail gain and higher head speed, now around 2000 rpm. It is much better with the tail wag! But I did not check if my main blads are balanced... I did not know that it's good to do it. I am still new into helis! # years now. Have a lot of fun with your helis and safe flights! Thanks for your kind comment!

[@t.s.thomas02]

Oh wow! I learned something new: You mentioned that you encountered Vortex Ring State effect and I had to learn as much as I could about it. I’m a fixed wing pilot, and sometimes, new things are disconcerting! Do you find that you get more VRS with the M4 than the max? I’m guessing that with the additional power of the M4Max, it is easier to fly out of. I began to wonder why this isn’t always an issue in a hover, but I’m also guessing that ground effect works against it, so maybe it is a higher altitude thing? Sometimes when descending vertically from maybe 30 m or more both with the M1, M2 and quadcopters, there will be some transient air noises that I’m now suspecting could be this very phenomenon. So now I have a new thing to think about! 🤔

[@RCCopterLove]

@t.s.thomas2642 I am far away from beeing a specialist for vortex ringstate effect but as far as I understood (and experienced) this phenomen it appears mainly if you let your heli loose lots of altitude in a sehort time with simultaneous very few or even no speed. For sure in higher altidude or on days with low air density this phenomen happpens more likely. And You are right: The bigger power reserve of the M4 Max makes it easier to compensate this state and to "catch" the heli from loosing more altitude. And yes, I agree again, this strange sharp noise of the main blades whenever you are descending a lot vertically, so without speed, seems to be the vortex sound. It;s very different to the "typical" sound the blade are making. For good luck our models have so much power in relation to their weight that we rarely get real problems and can recover easily. I am flying now sometimes big and heavy scale helicopters on my simulator and I see that with them you have to be much more careful. Even is too steep turns with too few speed = bad flying, I had some fast loss of altitude.

[@frisos3944]

Wow what a great looking helicopter and beautiful flight! My biggest heli is the Goosky S2 right now. Maybe next year a 400 size. Did you need more collective degrees comparing to the m4 to compensate for the lower rpm?

[@RCCopterLove]

@frisos3944 Thank you for your kind words! No, I am using the same colective pitch: 13.5 degrees pos and negative! This machine is amazing!

[@blooskyy7]

Awesome flying! There have been a few amazing developments in RC helis since I first learnt to fly, but haven't flown in around 10 years. The most interesting I think is Rotorflight, and I'm interested to know if you've tested it?

[@RCCopterLove]

@blooskyy7 Thank you very much for your kind words! Yes, you are right! in the last few years there have been amazing developments. I did not test Rotorflight yet - especially because I am unexperienced in FBL programming. But I have heard from many OMPHOBBY Heli Team Pilots, especially Jonas Wackershauser, that they really love it and that it offers an amazing performance and precision! I hope with their help and advise I will be able to test it in my next helicopter. In jonas opinion it is much better used with Radiomaster and the TX 16 than the Mikado VBar system in means of performance. Best greetings from Poland!!

[@blooskyy7]

@@RCCopterLove Greetings from Australia 🙂

[@RCCopterLove]

@@blooskyy7 Thank You! Thats faaar away! I am so happy that you found my videos!! And I hope you will have a comback to flying helis!! This would be great after such a long break!

[@blooskyy7]

Absolutely, I've just finished converting my Logo 400 and Trex450 to Rotorflight which are flying amazingly well. Think I'll need to consider getting the M2 and M4 for direct drive.

[@RCCopterLove]

@@blooskyy7 Wow, I am so happy to hear of your comeback and with Rotorflight! Flying my helis is giving me so much joy and I started so late (with 60 years) that I cannot imagine to stop it ever! I believe the M2 EVO will blow your mind away! You can fly it almost everyweher and it is as capable as the best gigger helis. The M4 and the M4 Max opened a new world of flying for me because they have been my first a bit bigger helis! All the best and many, many great and safe flights!!

[@simmisimsonsk]

Cooles video, hab mir jetzt auch den m4 max gekauft, aber erst fliege ich den m1 und kaufe wahrscheinlich noch den m2 :) wieviel gas fliegst du beim m4 max und wieviel grad pitch?

[@RCCopterLove]

@siimisimsonsk Hi Simon! Das mit dem erst Mal M1 und den M2 fliegen ist eine sehr gute Idee! Ich bin froh, dass ich mit den "kleinen" angefangen habe. Im Fall eines Crashes ist das viel billiger und einfacher zu reparieren. Ich fliege mit Edge TX und habe meine throttle curves bei 5% Idle up 1 und 15 % Idle up 2, wobei ich Akrobatik nur in Idle up 2 fliege. in anderen Programmen (TX) bedeutet das ca 60 % (denke ich) + und - Collective Pitch je 13 Grad. Fuer mich optimal! Ich hoffe das hilf dir!! Viel Freude!!

[@simmisimsonsk]

@@RCCopterLove super Vielen Dank, ich finde den d1 super, nur bei Wind etwas wackelig, hole jetzt noch den m2, bin gespannt wieviel der besser fliegt:)

[@RCCopterLove]

@@simmisimsonsk Wenn du dir den M2 EVO holst, wirst du geschockt sein, wie gross der Unterschied ist, Simon! Die 3 S Batterie macht einen grossen Unterschied in der Power Reserve und Flugdauer im Vergleich zum M1. Der M2 Evo hat einen staerkeren Hauptmotor, laengere Rotorblaetter sowie einen groesseren und staerkeren und leiseren Heckmotor und Rotor! Das alles sorgt dafuer, dass ich meine M2 Evos fuehle, als seien sie ein Teil meines Koerpers und selbst bei staerktem Wind fliege. Ich habe auch 2 M2 V2's und einen M2 Explore und der Evo ist ein echter Fortschritt. Alle meine M2's sind klasse, aber der EVO ist die Wucht! Du wirst ihn lieben! Da bin ich mir sicher!!

[@simmisimsonsk]

@@RCCopterLove danke für deine Nachricht, früher bin ich 700er Heli geflogen. Dachte fang mal klein an, bin so überrascht wie gut der M1 für die Größe fliegt. Ich kann schon Loopings:) wenn der m2 evo wesentlich besser ist, dann Frage ich mich, für was brauche ich den M4 max ? :)

[@RCCopterLove]

@@simmisimsonsk Der Sound der Rotorblaetter des M4 Max macht einfach suechtig! Schon beim Start. Und dann esrst bei Loopings, flips und Rollen.... Das ist noch mal ein ganz anderes Kaliber! Glaub mir! Du wirst es sehen. 700 er sind mir zu gross und schwer, aber meine beiden M4 und m4 Max machen mir unglaublich viel Freude. Ich fliege sie alle: M4, M4 Max und M2. Der M1 hat ne kleine Pause, weil ich nicht genug Zeit und Konzentrationsausdauer habe, sie alle zu fliegen! Aber er ist mein Indoor Libeling bei Regenwetter. Beste Gruesse!

[@greendiode5522]

Thank you for flying this normally like a real helicopter and not a bunch of stick banging 3d puke.

[@RCCopterLove]

@greendiode5522 I am happy you like the normal upright flight. Fullsieze helis ar my great love and inspiration and thats why I love to imitate their behaviour. Thanks and many happy flights!!

[@elitecol69]

'3D Puke'?! wtf lol sounds like you don't have the skills or brain capability to even learn past forward flight lmao