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Originally Posted by csb
I can imagine choppers with more channels will be more difficult to fly. The 3 channel is easy but still took some practise, and confidence, to fly through doorways.
My 3channel chopper (approx 15cm long) has crashed many times but nothing has broken. It included a set of spare blades but the chopper is very light and the blades are fairly solid. Some crashes have been from over 2metres.
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The 3 channel ones with counter-rotating blades are inherently stable.
The 4/5 channel ones have full cyclic and collective control, plus tail rotor control. It takes a while to confidently hover one, but learning on a simulator and then training undercarriage means this can usually be accomplished without crashing.
Unfortunately, crashing almost inevitably involves damage with a bigger chopper - much more mass and inertia of the moving parts.
The gyro on the bigger choppers is only for stabilising the tail, it has no effect on the cyclic control.
DT