Aaaaaalllmost done with my Align TREX 450XL.

Spent another 2 hours in the hobby shop yesterday. The owner is kind enough to help you get it setup if you build it yourself. Over all I think I did a good job building the heli, but I put a bunch of stuff on BACKWARDS! The Washout thing was upside down, the inner part of the stabilizer control cage was upside down and I had my tail fan pushing instead of pulling the blades. It was OK, but its better to pull than push. One thing I noticed before hand, on my own was the tail fan was spinning the wrong direction so I had to flip the belt. I upgraded the blade grips on the tail to aluminum while I was there because I stripped out the screw holes with the self tapping screw it came with.

After all that we programmed the Gyro & the ESC. The ESC is really nice & the Gyro is too, but I think it is going to need some more tweaking. I hope I don't regret getting the Logictech over the more expensive Futaba.

Tonight its really just a matter of some more gyro tweaking, and setting up all my pitch curves. It is possible for one as green as I to do all this stuff. But it would have taken a LOT longer. I was so desperate to fly something, I took out the Co-Axial heli last night and few 2 packs in a fairly dark back yard then logged about an hour on RealFlight g4.5 and went to bed way WAY too late.

With some luck the Heli will be flying this evening.