This is to the newcomer to the sport, dont try and learn on your own find a club get help and dont be ashamed to ask questions, i started over 12 years ago i found a club met the members they where all to happy to look at my model and they set it all up for me, they test flew it and showned me what to do and what not to do, with in 1 month i was flying around on my own, once you get to the stage where you want to go a bit mad most members was to happy to help now 12 years later i am up with the top dogs, my biggest point of the tip is that find a club and you can get loads of help and its all FREE and if you listen to what they say you might not crash all the time, Thanks for listening.

I own a nexus 30 and I have flown it about 4 times and only had to replace the blades. I think the nexus 30 would be better to learn on than the raptor 30. Just be sure to buy a good gyro that matches to your radio!

Having had the Nexus 30 for some time now and rebuilding it after countless little accidents, Most of which where pilot error and not due to the heli. I decided I would try and get enough pich to fly inverted and have now succeded in getting -10+4+10 the rottor head speed seems to be very good and the heli is very stable. The thing you need to do is take 2-3mm from each end of the plastic pitchrod guide (The swash plate slides on to it and it is fixed to the main mast with for grub screws and a steal coller) then you will need to shorten the pich linkage rods by as many turns as you want. This is how I have achieved this amount of pitch and it flies fantastic, If you need pictures email me and I can send you photos to show you and explain more. (Please beware that if you do this the helicopter will throw itself into the ground if you pull back on the power too much as you would expect with -10 pitch:) Happy flying.

I fly a NEXUS and yes whilst the raptor is slightly and I mean slightly better than it. They are both learner helis and completely useless for 3D.(unless you buy a 60 or heavily modify) Anyway about autos on the standard swash plate for the nexus. You, if the rotors dont spin freely, have probably set the linkage rods too long that connect to the flybar. This causes binding and adds to increased wear on the linkage balls. I discovered this when trying to turn the rotor there was resistance on the swash plate. I shortened the linkage rods till this bind had gone. And have completed a succesful auto since. I liked the nexus S type it was a great intro and still have it. If you learn to fly this well then easy helies like RAPTOR are simple to fly. I now have kyoshos caliber 30 this is a thousand times better than the raptor and the Nexus. The raptor came out a long time after the nexus. Heli's improve all the time and get better. Why knock someone for what they fly as long as it gets them into the sport then good luck to them. We all started somewhere help them enjoy it.

The Kyosho Nexus 30 Standard Type S model kit tells you, in the instructions, to screw the engine's fuel-mixture needle out two and a half turns. Do not do this, as the engine mixture would be too rich for the engine to run correctly! Instead, screw the needle in all the way, and unscrew it approximately one and a half turns to the left.

If you are a beginner you MUST buy a simulator and become good at that before you take your heli out to the field. Don't listen to people when they say sims are for wimps, because even though they seem really expensive at the time, when you compare the price to the cost of replacement parts when you crash it, you may think otherwise. I also highly recommend training skids. Without these two things, I don't know how i would have made it.

I am a helicopter mechanic and work on the OH-58 Bell Helicopter. This heli has a tail stinger to keep the vertical fin and blades from contacting the ground when pilots are coming in hot with a nose up attitude. The tail stinger attaches to the bottom of the vertical fin. I believe this would greatly help with T/R strikes on R/C helis.

VERY IMPORTANT for the beginner!!! After building a helicopter and getting it all setup, always remember to chech that the gyro operates in the correct direction otherwise your heli will start doing VERY fast pierouettes as soon as it gets light on its feet. I recently transferred all my gear from a shuttle ZX to a nexus 30 and spent 3 days making sure it was setup correctly and the only thing I forgot to check was the gyro. Luckily it came home in one piece. Good luck !!!

On the Raptor support page it says that you have to split the frame to replace the clutch liner. Not so. I have a Raptor 60 and I have replaced my liner by simply dropping the engine and then putting the heli upsidedown between my knees. You can scrape out the old liner and drop in a new one without having to take anything else apart. It only takes a few minutes and requires only taking out the 4 engine mount screws. Happy Flying.

It's pretty difficult to clean off that oil residue from your beautiful helicopter, isn't it? Well, a simple fix to that is an ordinary, every day cleaner: Windex! It works wonders for removing the residue in a snap, be it an airplane fuselage, or a helicopter fuselage. To this date, it's never given me any problems. :)

Hey All. Have recently purchased, built and test flown my Nexus 30. Thankfully all is well, albeit have no idea what to adjust! during testing! Anyway, one bit of advice: be very careful with Hydraulic Locks. If you have a lock in the combustion chamber, DO NOT rotate the starter cone anti-clockwise. I have done this twice, and it means removing the engine to fix it. What happens is that the fan and clutch shoe couplings rotate anti-clockwise, and when the engine is locked under pressure, the two begin to unscrew off the engine axle. So, as they screw off, they begin to press hard against the top of the clutch housing and damage both components of the clutch. The only way to fix this is to remove the engine, re-screw and tighten the fan to the axle, and using thread lock, screw back the retaining bolt. Happy flying

Another good way to keep your heli's skids from spreading is to store your heli off of the ground. Use a ceiling hook, and make a cradle from a metal coat hanger to loop around your blade grips. This holds the heli off the ground and supports it with the strongest part of the heli.

For those of you who are frustrated that your Nexus landing skids are spreading apart ... here's a good tip for keeping them together. Take an iron clothes hanger and cut two lengths with a hook on each end. After the hooks are bent up, the length should be the same width as your original landing gear were. When your chopper is not in use, wrap your wire hooks around the front and rear of the skids. Works great.

I found my Nexus 30's tail boom didn't have the required open "U" shaped alignment notches in one of the ends,the holes were there,they just didn't break out to the end of the tube. I assembled the heli not realizing this,and after just a couple of flights,(1) of which included a (minor) rotor blade ground strike & repair,found the rotor drive wire loop not sufficiently engaged into its' drive bushing.I think I'm going to lenghten the rear vertical fin a little to prevent the tail rotors from being able to contact to ground...read about the here!

1.Nexus 30 owners: I suggest you upgrade your z bends to ball links as this will make the chopper fly alot better, as the z bends will gain slop after awhile. 2.Add a exhaust deflecter to deflect the smoke away from the chopper.On mine the smoke is getting in under the canopy and making a real mess. 3.DON'T CRASH 4.If you do crash MAKE SURE you check to see that the clutch is not damaged. On mine something is wrong with the clutch but don't know what. Yet to find the problem.