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| Walkera 22E |
Average Rating: 2.3333 |
Jun 24, 2007
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Reviewed By: JasonJ
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Join Date: Jun 24, 2007
Location: North Idaho
Total Reviews: 4
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Rating: 3 out of 10
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Bear in mind I am new to this fine hobby, so take that into account while reading this review.
In April of this year (07), my wife decided to get me an r/c helicopter for my birthday. Not knowing what to get, she bought me a Walkera 22E for $120-ish to the door. I must admit that I knew what she was up to, and I had not done enough research, and had told her to just make sure it was a 6 channel cp heli. Needless to say, this helicopter showed up.
I started doing some reading up on it and found a lot of negative commentary on the quality, especially the electronics. I forged ahead, since it was already in the house and waiting for me to crash, er, fly it.
I charged it up, threw some batteries in the included transmitter, and like any good noob, I spooled it up in the livingroom. I did not attempt actual flight, but it did get light on the skids and wanted to tip over. I promptly shelved it and ordered a training kit.
Once I got the training kit and had done the appropriate pre-flight checks, I went outside and wasted little time crashing it. I put the spare blades on, thought about what happened, and went from there. The one thing about this helicopter is that it is nowhere near beginner level. It is very twitchy, and very unforgiving.
I decided to buy another heli, and bought a Falcon 3D, which will be in a seperate review. The one thing I will say about the Falcon is it is vastly more forgiving, and allowed me to learn to the point of now being able to hover and control the heli with no training skids. It also helped me to be able to go back to the Walkra 22E and actually fly it.
I can now hover the 22e, but I needed to do a lot of fine tuning to it. It has a few crashes under it's belt and so far I have only needed to order some more blades and some replacement head linkage bits. The major thing that recently happend is the tail motor died, which is common on these from what I understand. I have not had the electronics problems that some have had.
Overall, I can't really think of anyone who I would recommend this too as it is too difficult for a beginner and there are too many better, more stable helis out there in the price range. I guess if a person really likes a challenge it would do in a pinch.
Probably the biggest complaint I have with this heli is it's proprietary radio system. You cannot bind it with any radio you may have, you have to use the radio that comes with it. The radio works fine for what thats worth. The only way around it is to replace every bit of electronics in the heli, not worth it at this price level unless you just like to spend money.
This heli is essentially the same as the Venom Night Ranger 3D so parts and upgrades can be found through that direction as well. |
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• Replacement parts are cheap and readily available along with upgrade aluminum parts.
• It is very responsive and can do some 3D as long as the battery and motor is upgraded.
• It is inexpensive for what it does.
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• Tail motor is prone to burning out prematurely.
• Extremely sensitive to input, not good for a beginner.
• Proprietary radio/reciever system, cannot use other systems.
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