HELP!!

Nuttcaz! Help! I wrote you a PM but you never responded. Was your camera a special one? Were the images broadcast back to your computer or was there a harddrive on your helicopter? I want to know what the maximum range is from transmitter to helicopter. Will the transmitter work if your helicopter goes behind a building? Also, do they make a servo type of off / on switch? An example would be if I was to want to turn on christmas tree lights at the edge of my property which is 100 yards away I would want an off/on switch. Do they make such devices?

whoops, forgot to respond to that one, anyways I use a Samsung L100 digital camera and have it bolted to the front of my canopy. check here for a video about my helicam

http://www.myrcguides.com/HeliBasicInfo.html

as far as range, with 2.4ghz, if you can see it you can fly it, I don't think it'd still work if the heli went behind a building but I've never tried as thats a sure fire way to crash as long as you have power and signal going to the Rx then you can hook servos up to do pretty much anything you want. I know they make electronic switches to plug into the Rx but they're for smaller applications

Thank you very much for the information! I can can feel that this is something that I have to get into! TOTAL IMMERSION!

the best thing about AP/AV is that you will ALWAYS get to see something new. Everything looks different 100ft up. Even neighbor hoods you lived in your whole life.

Thats a great part about RC Helis, there are lots of things to do, 3D - Scale - Aerial Photography/Videography - F3A??? (or something like that) - or just fly for fun