Coaxial is defenetly alot easier to learn on than single rotor model.
Know of more people who have gotten single rotor as their first heli, and it was bigger ones, and gave up before they even learned to hover because they found it to hard.

It is alot harder than it looks, but great fun.

The only upgrade which is realy worth it for the cx3 is the heatsinks for motor and its like 4 pounds.
The link i posted earlier have a specific section about the cx3 which i found very usefull.

Any of you guys who own small helis also fly fixed wings?

the one you calle hughes 500 is the CX3

this is a good site btw

http://www.rchelicopterfun.com/best-rc-helicopter.html

I havent tried the CX2 myself but know a couple of people who have it.
Think the CX3 is basicly a CX2 with the addition of the headinglock gyro and a new scale body.

I have had a CX3 for some weeks now and it took a little trimming before it was steady, basicly some fine tuning with sanding paper on the top rotor links.

Get a Blade CX3
It looks smashing and is easy to fly when trimmed.
And you can get spares for it easily.
The landing skids are prone to breaking but they are fairly cheap to replace.

Onion, i was thinking Star Wars when i saw this thread :)

Queen and Dire Straits

btw there is no bacon in Denmark, its all shipped to the UK.

You get what you pay for?

When i listen to people in the UK moan about the NHS its often that they mention how the hospitals etc are much better in for example Denmark.
But there isnt realy a difference, the Danish hospitals is not better, you get the same lvl of service in the UK but at alot lower tax cost.

Drj, very good advice, especialy with the high living cost.
i remember seeing this programme on TV ages ago in Denmark about young people coming over in the summer to work picking strawberries on a big farm, as a working holliday thing. They had seen the gross salary aswelll and been amazed by it, they didnt learn about the high tax untill they received their first pay. They were very disapointed.

you can find some details about Danish tax system here

http://www.skm.dk/foreign/english/

Dont know if alot of ex pats in Copenhagen, im from the westcoast myself, Esbjerg area, and there was always alot of brits around there due to it beeing the Danish oil base, would think there would be alot around in Copenhagen aswell.
One good thing about Copenhagen btw, is that its dead easy to get to Sweden since they build the bridge, lots and lots of nice biking to be had over there.

Cost of living is alot higher than the UK when it comes to food etc, Denmark got the highest food prices in all of europe. hourly pay is higher ofcourse, but you do pay 45percent tax.
After almost 6 years in the UK i am still amazed when i hear brittish people complain about how expensive the UK is, as it still seems soo cheap to me when i go shopping.
Renting a flat is probably around the same price as the UK, again depends what area, copenhagen beeing realy expensive.
health service is very much like the NHS, works the exact same way.
Dentists are expensive though as not covered under the "nhs".

Life in general is good, and i think this happiest people in europe is down to people mostly beeing content, but its also a product of most people not wanting to change things, they want things as they used to be.

There isnt many places in the country where you cant see someones house, but if you go to the westcoast for a long walk on any spot of the hundred of km long sandy beaches on a windy day, it will feel wild and remote :)

the reason they are the happiest people in Europe is because they are the ones with lowest exspectations to life!

And to believe in the well ordered social system, i think you need to be a foreigner or at least to never have looked into it.

Im danish but now living in the UK.

Where abouts in the country is the job based?
There is alot of nice places for riding singletrack, but no big hills. Infact any of the hills will be lile a minor speed bumb compared to the UK, with the one exeption of the area around the Silkeborg lakes.

There is 1 donwhill trail in the country, but its on Bornholm.
Im finding it hard to write anything about how its like to live in denmark, but if you got any specific question feel free to ask.
For culture, the big supermarkets actualy stock alot of brittish Ale now, back in the days when i used to drink, we only had tuborg and carlsberg to choose from. and most bigger cities will have English and Irish pubs.
Ohh and you will get a totaly different idea of binge drinking if you go out on a friday/saturday night.

Live in Hucknall and we keep finding nice rides by just linking up various bridleways, often starting from the house.
Just get OS map and start exploring the bridleways outside your door.

Cateye TL LD1100

Even a 12 year old kid know that is a polish squadron.
at least i learned when i was 12 and having that exact plane as an airfix model.

Clint Eastwood

the little bit i walked of that path you can easily bikem, but not been on all of it even though i used to live just south of Wemyss bay ;)

Oddjob, im in Hucknall, but im from Esbjerg area, the humour is defenetly different from the westcoast to Sjælland (they dont get anything over there ;)

My english and french colleuges cant understand how i can call customers in Norway and just speak Danish to them and them Norwegian :) Only have to be carefull with the numbers.

Bro that clip is a classic, norwegian colleuge showed it to me some years ago.

oddjob, where in Denmark are you living?
I find that the humour im used to is way more sarcastic than the English one, and lot dryer for sure.
(im Danish btw ;)

here is a danish joke for you

Gift, er noget man tager for ikke at blive det.

Word play aswell, as Gift means both Married and Poison!

So the joke goes: "gift" is somthing you take, to not get it.

Bling Bling, are you my girlfriend?
she made the exact same Joke when we passed signs for Århus, when driving in Denmark some weeks ago.

the Airport they label as Århus is an hour or so on bus away from Århus.
Its in Tirstrup, so it will be an hour min on bus to train, then 2-3 hours on train to copenhagen.

Mastiles, maybe i should have written "then they pass out a little"

At least that was the case the one time i was on that ferry, helped a friend move back to Denmark from Oslo.

To get down to our cabin on the return trip, we had to jump/crawl over passed out drunk norwegians.

Im guessing here but think the ferry from Hirtshals to norway is cheaper than the ones going to Oslo aswell.
Also its alot quicker, the Oslo Frederikshavn ferry is designed to let norwegians go on it and drink all night, then they sleep a little, and drink all night on the way back.

Denmark comes top of those lists because food in general is the most expensive in all of Europe, in Norway there is a few odd bits which is super expensive even compared to Denmark, like the alcohol.

I grew up in Denmark and lived there for 30 years so i know what im talking about, been to Norway many times and its always been nice and cheap to me but i dont drink or go out to eat.

The good side to this is that now that im living in the UK i find it sooo cheap here :)

I would go to norway no matter what it cost though, as its such a beautiful country.

Is it possible to get off that ferry in Göteborg?

I have a compound hunting bow, sadly not allowed to hunt with bows in this country.

how far away are the targets for that "size" bow?

Maybe its time to experiement with sighs of the verges showing the sheep that there is a road with cars?

wrong account number?
Probably why it was never paid, the direct debit failed ;)

Drink IrnBru
Also helps with malaria incase the midges should start spreading that.

Here is my XC2 build up as a commuter, when i got tired of using my Spez XC full susser to ride to work on.

Nog loged into flickr here so you will have to click the link

went for a 30km loop on Fanø, which involved 10km of riding on the beach.

so if i build it around a TT fram it will be ok?

anotherdead, its just an excuse to try build another bike ;)

I do have a mountainbike with slicks and been assuming a roadbike with bigger wheels, higher gearing and narrower tyres should be a fair bit faster, but maybe in wrong.

good explanation of facebook here