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    Hi all, I've just been out and go me a new toy. I've been playing with the Twister Bell Medivac for a year or so and finally brought a slightly better toy, the Twister CP Gold.

    As the blades cost a few quid and it's all new to me I thought I'd get some training feet. So does anyone have a link with pix on how to fit them, I have cable ties that cam with the feet but I can't see how I'm supposed to fit them and not have to remove the ties each time I pack the heli away.

    Also, should I bend the feet to point down or just leave them sticking out the sides?

    Confused lol

  • #2
    better angling the feet slightly so it raises the heli of the ground more. Theres no way of fitting it with the zip ties but you could ditch them and use plastic bands. Just secure it to the bottom of the skids with the elastic bands.
    Cheers
    Lee
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    • #3
      If it helps when I had T/gear on my 450, to secure it tightly as poss' to the landing gear I used two zip ties on each of the four ends.

      I firstly secured a tie around the bottom skid, then at an angle around the leg, and once completed on all four tie points it was solid, plus where the T/Gear meets at an "X" dead center of the legs I attached two ties at 1 to 7 O'Clock and 5 to 11 O'Clock so there wouldn't be a weakness if I came in hot, OK some might think it over kill, however the bag of ties were so cheap, and for the sake of a bodge job I wasn't taking no chances as just using one tie on each leg/skid didn't offer the level of safety I needed, but doing the above stopped the legs from moving at all.

      Plus having piece of mind knowing my legs wouldn't move & fail me took some of the pressure off while learning the basics, and knowing a hot fast landing at an odd angle would have a chance of survival as the T/Legs were solid.

      Then I got hooked and managed around 8 flights a day for around 4 weeks
      solid, and I'm sure this helped my flight to crash ratio to be very low, plus it gave me confidence to push further forward each week, even if I only practiced a batt cycle tail in hovering on my patio while I sat on the step.

      Great fun, good luck my friend, and happy flying.
      sigpicWayne AKA OB1

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      • #4
        I had these ones, much easier to take on and off
        Twister Storm 3D X2 (both binned)
        HBK2 Carbon (sold)
        Century Kestrel(sold)
        Raptor 50V2SE Titan
        Gaui 200SeV2
        Vision50

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        • #5
          Elastic bands - cheap as chips, 2 minutes to fit.
          Shaun.

          Proud owner of an Eddie Gold Star.



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