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It was all going so well.....
Well guys, put the 600L in today.
Mixed emotions really, kinda glad its out of the way, its only my second crash, the last one being 2 to 3 years ago. But gutted a little not crashed heli is now crashed!
Will need a bit of help to sus out what went wrong!
I was between 1 to 2 mins into the third flight of the day on the 600l. I was hovering inverted about 100ft up, as I went to bring it back to upright hover, I heard a strange noise. It sounded like the motor had shut down. My friend with me seems to think he heard a crunch before he recognised the motor had shut down. But I don't recall hearing that.
in the heat of the moment I held it in the hover, I think at that point I was feeding in positive collective as it held its altitude. Then I think I was at full stick and it began to come down. It didn't fall like straight down, but I was coming down fast (as I recall in the moment).
As it came down, I didn't feel I had any cyclic control, but I think this is down to bleeding all the head speed. As it dropped I moved the collective to just below mid stick. As it got to around 3 to 4 meters I went full positive. I don't recall the heli responding to this, but it may of done.
It hit the hard compact soil skids down, but leaning forward, so the bottom front left took the impact.
I didn't hit throttle hold until it was on the deck and stopped.
I collected it and brought it back to the pit without unplugging anything. All servos were responding normally, and no beeps or anything from the ESC. I then powered down.
The good news is the damage - Skids, Canopy and that looks about it
. It popped both links of the swash from the main blades. Tail blades, mains, boom all undamaged. Main gearing, tail gearing again all ok. Servos seem to be operational also, pending a closer look.
So pulled the logs, I need to sus the logging on the brain because it does not add up. the last log in it showed a 6min flight!
Anyways attached are screenshots of the castle and jeti (logs brain also).
I initially thought the system had lost its throttle signal, but the timing of the throttle going to zero does not coincide with my pitch inputs. So I am not sure. What I know for sure is there was no over amp, no under voltage, no signal loss (signal strength averages 5 or 6, with it dropping to 3 for a blip. But signal quality stays 100%). No RX power loss either.
Mixed emotions really, kinda glad its out of the way, its only my second crash, the last one being 2 to 3 years ago. But gutted a little not crashed heli is now crashed!
Will need a bit of help to sus out what went wrong!
I was between 1 to 2 mins into the third flight of the day on the 600l. I was hovering inverted about 100ft up, as I went to bring it back to upright hover, I heard a strange noise. It sounded like the motor had shut down. My friend with me seems to think he heard a crunch before he recognised the motor had shut down. But I don't recall hearing that.
in the heat of the moment I held it in the hover, I think at that point I was feeding in positive collective as it held its altitude. Then I think I was at full stick and it began to come down. It didn't fall like straight down, but I was coming down fast (as I recall in the moment).
As it came down, I didn't feel I had any cyclic control, but I think this is down to bleeding all the head speed. As it dropped I moved the collective to just below mid stick. As it got to around 3 to 4 meters I went full positive. I don't recall the heli responding to this, but it may of done.
It hit the hard compact soil skids down, but leaning forward, so the bottom front left took the impact.
I didn't hit throttle hold until it was on the deck and stopped.
I collected it and brought it back to the pit without unplugging anything. All servos were responding normally, and no beeps or anything from the ESC. I then powered down.
The good news is the damage - Skids, Canopy and that looks about it
. It popped both links of the swash from the main blades. Tail blades, mains, boom all undamaged. Main gearing, tail gearing again all ok. Servos seem to be operational also, pending a closer look. So pulled the logs, I need to sus the logging on the brain because it does not add up. the last log in it showed a 6min flight!
Anyways attached are screenshots of the castle and jeti (logs brain also).
I initially thought the system had lost its throttle signal, but the timing of the throttle going to zero does not coincide with my pitch inputs. So I am not sure. What I know for sure is there was no over amp, no under voltage, no signal loss (signal strength averages 5 or 6, with it dropping to 3 for a blip. But signal quality stays 100%). No RX power loss either.
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