• Transmitters and receivers have very short range and/or interference problems
• Servos jitter and/or have centering problems
These problems will make learning hovering much more difficult.
3.1.1. Recommended first heli choices
• Corona (very durable, easier to hover, inexpensive)
• Logo 10 (durable, easier to hover, expensive)
• ECO Piccolo / Piccolo Fun (very durable, hard to hover, inexpensive)
• Century Hummingbird, GWS Dragonfly, Skylark and exact clones (durable, hard to hover,
inexpensive)
• Voyager E (durable, easier to hover, expensive)
• Hirobo XRB SR (durable, simple to hover, expensive, limited )
3.1.2. Recommended second heli choices
These are not recommended for your first helicopter, but would be good for your second heli-
copter.
• Hornet FP/CP (fragile)
• ECO Lite/8/16 (somewhat fragile)
• Logo 16/20 (expensive)
• Joker / Joker CX (expensive)
• Century Hummingbird Elite FP/CP (high headspeed)
• Century Hummingbird v3 (fragile)
3.2. Clones
Some of the helicopters today are either nearly exact copies of other helicopters, or have
nearly exact copies of some major pieces.
Table 3.1. Helicopter size summary sorted by AUW
Original Clone
Feda Dragonfly/GWS Dragonfly/Cen-
tury Hummingbird V1/V2
Smartech Skylark, Smartech Aero-
hawk, Evoflight Sabre, Esky Honey
Bee Mark 2, Venom Night Ranger II,
Walkera Dragonfly #4
Hornet II Eflight Blade CP (cloned head), E-sky
Honey Bee CP (cloned head), E-sky
Honey Bee King (cloned head), Venom
First Helicopter Selection Guide
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