Pete Stewardson and the Field of Doom Part II

[muscleflex]

^^nice! would love to see a video of you flying!

[Lynx.1677]

^^nice! would love to see a video of you flying!

Look on my Youtube page matey, plenty of me flying my 450 Pro.

[PeteStewardson]

AAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggg

Just spent 45 mins trying to figure out what's wrong. Everything checking out, stick move right, slider moves left. In rate and HH mode. Then move the tail right, slider moves left. Mirrors what I've got on the TT360 exactly. Spent ages double, triple, quadruple checking.

Then as I looked at both helis sat right next to each other about to go bang my head against a brick wall I see it... TT360, tail slider links to the leading edge of the blade grips. 600esp tail slider links to the trailing edge of the grips. I've only gone and put the grips in backwards, thus giving the exact opposite pitch

[muscleflex]

^^ ouch! well at least you found out what the problem is... and at least all you broke was the front gears and nothing else!

[muscleflex]

Look on my Youtube page matey, plenty of me flying my 450 Pro.

yeah thanks... i have been watching. got that 450 sport testing in your backyard etched in my mind! i really like how you can fly that sport around that confined space! i would love to be able to fly like that soon i hope!

[AcidDrink]

AAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggg

Just spent 45 mins trying to figure out what's wrong. Everything checking out, stick move right, slider moves left. In rate and HH mode. Then move the tail right, slider moves left. Mirrors what I've got on the TT360 exactly. Spent ages double, triple, quadruple checking.

Then as I looked at both helis sat right next to each other about to go bang my head against a brick wall I see it... TT360, tail slider links to the leading edge of the blade grips. 600esp tail slider links to the trailing edge of the grips. I've only gone and put the grips in backwards, thus giving the exact opposite pitch

Glad you sorted it out!

IMO the best method is to look at leading edge of tail blade. Nose left - blade right. Left rudder - blade right. Tail always goes in leading edge direction., so when you fly the nose (as 99.999% of people), rudder left - leading edge right. Same with correction direction of the gyro. Rotate heli left - leading edge goes right.
It won't be proportional on the bench, btw.
Don't even look at the slider or grips

[PeteStewardson]

Damn it. Got time to sit down and replace the TT gear tonight. Only to now find the tail shaft is also bent. I couldn't tell before as the tail didn't turn smoothly. So now I have to get hold of a tail shaft. Will see if the local hobby shop has them, but I doubt it as they only ever stock rubbish.

[Lynx.1677]

Do you think this was bent prior to the incident Pete?

[PeteStewardson]

Do you think this was bent prior to the incident Pete?

To be honest I don't know. I don't remember checking it, but it's a pretty thick bar and I'm surprised that it's bent based on the clip it would have got. When I took the gears out only the top umbrella gear was damaged, the one on the TT end is perfect with no sign of damage at all, which makes me think that gear was probably a bit week, otherwise I'd have expected damage to both.

[Lynx.1677]

To be honest I don't know. I don't remember checking it, but it's a pretty thick bar and I'm surprised that it's bent based on the clip it would have got. When I took the gears out only the top umbrella gear was damaged, the one on the TT end is perfect with no sign of damage at all, which makes me think that gear was probably a bit week, otherwise I'd have expected damage to both.

Yeah generally only one gear gets damaged even on the 450's. I think one is designed to be weak as a failing point (I'm teaching you to suck eggs here) lol. I would be very surprised that incident bent the shaft as I've had worse with my 450 and not bent the tail shaft.

[PeteStewardson]

Yeah generally only one gear gets damaged even on the 450's. I think one is designed to be weak as a failing point (I'm teaching you to suck eggs here) lol. I would be very surprised that incident bent the shaft as I've had worse with my 450 and not bent the tail shaft.

Yeah I know one is normally a bit weaker, but I've usually had to replace both gears as the TT end has some damage, this one looks new lol

Will see if the local shop has one, if not another order to FL probably.

[PeteStewardson]

As usual HobbyStores don't have them in, pretty much only have about 4 parts in for each heli. Rubbish.