Pitch link popped off my swash...

[Nick B]

.......on my 500 this evening,i thought i had stripped a gear and was amazed to find i safely landed it with a floppy blade...pheweeee

Uploading a vid now,lucky it didnt pop off any other time than in an upright position

Shame as i was gonna do some piroflips n stuff ;oP

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkw9HVOj1oM[/ame]

[Steve]

Good save.

I once had a wash out arm come off the slider block on a 50 size heli and although it flew like a wet sponge, it was none-the-less controllable to the point of getting it down on the ground safely.

These helis do kind of fly to a point with just one blade in action.

[Helimadlarry]

Wow that was lucky.

[zoombolt]

After a recent mis-hap/crash, I noticed my T500 main blade to swash ball linkage arms were very sloppy. Decided to change them for comforts sake. Glad I did, a serious crash avoided there then me thinks................

[debrooker]

Had the pitch servo connector disconnect itself from the rx mid flight causing pretty similar behaviour...

i stacked it.

[Nick B]

Thinking about it,these links are the ones that come off the most for adjustment to pitch and also when swash leveling,im wondering if it was one that i had perhaps dumb thumbed when pushing back on,you know,when they pop right over the ball and onto its stem...maybe it weakens them

[GtD]

I was watching the vid expecting some colourful language as it tumbles from the sky while you desperately do you best to save it....all looks very calm

shame you didn't get the piro flips in m8...I'll look forward to this weekends video......

(btw - I hope that doesn't happen to mine when I finally get it in the air )

J

[Nick B]

shame you didn't get the piro flips in m8...I'll look forward to this weekends video......

Might be a bit windy so will do it in the back garden

[Grant85]

Nice flying there Nick,Your flying seems to have come on quite a bit how do you do it? plenty of sim work I should imagine.Well I'm glad it came down in one piece.Well done.
Cheers Grant.

[Nick B]

Thank you Grant...most of the credit goes to pheonix

But having a well set up heli helps...and thats thanks to you guys on here

[Grant85]

I need to stop being lazy and get some more sim time in lol! I don't get on as much as I should do,then maybe I will get the bottle to try something new

[Nick B]

Bloody done it again today,just after i had been inverted...phewee

I have noticed a slight bend in the link perhaps from one of my previous landings with gusto

Gonna order some new link pliers as i think the old pair my brother gave me are damaging the 'A' links

[Mart61]

Nice recovery! Not a single swearword either?

[Nick B]

Haha,there would of been if it had gone in

[3DBish]

hmm i had a ball link pop off my 700 about january/february time this year.. found the boom about 30 ft away, blades in a trillion pieces and all i was doing was hovering, thank goodness the boom wasnt facing me :O