Beginners... Practice autos!

[PeteStewardson]

Just a note to say to all the beginners out there, once you've got hovering sorted and starting to learn forward flight start learning autos...

Just recently I've been practising with my 450 Pro and the TT360 hitting TH and auto'ing into land. Today this saved me some cash.

I was out with my 450 Pro just now and I lost orientation as I went below the tree line during a turn. Ended up with the heli falling sideways and getting out of shape. Not actually sure I would have recovered it so hit TH and then tried to level it out best I could and used the technique I'd been practising to land to slow the heli down.

Once I'd recovered the heli it looked completely unscathed

Then just after take off the tail went mad, hit TH again and brought her down nice and smooth. Turns out the TT has snapped, most likely in the first accident but was holding until it got airborne again.

Stupid design that. Align say "Special protection design torque tube. When you have a crash or collision with tail blade, it will protect the umbrella gear and make the damge at the back section of the torque tube." so instead of a £1 umbrella gear I have to pay about £16 for a pair of TT and a pair of bearings. Not sure how that's better.

Anyway the message is, learn the skills you need to auto, because it'll save you a load of cash in repairs.

[millerman]

glad you got it down safe and sound mate well almost

[paulsouthport]

Nicely saved - 450s are not too easy to auto well, not a lot of blade inertia to play with

[PeteStewardson]

Thanks guys. It came down on a big pile of cut down trees but was nearly level and coming in reasonably slow so worked out lucky really. Had I been on level ground I might have tipped it over.

Not kidding on the 450 not autoing well. I usually hit TH about 3-4ft up when landing and it comes down with a bit of a bump but not too bad. The TT360 I can go from about 6ft and still come down relatively softly. But that has wider, longer blades so not surprising.

[millerman]

Thanks guys. It came down on a big pile of cut down trees but was nearly level and coming in reasonably slow so worked out lucky really. Had I been on level ground I might have tipped it over.

Not kidding on the 450 not autoing well. I usually hit TH about 3-4ft up when landing and it comes down with a bit of a bump but not too bad. The TT360 I can go from about 6ft and still come down relatively softly. But that has wider, longer blades so not surprising.

nothing to do with the fact they have silly little blades LOL common dude get that 700 up and you will be able to auto from a few hundred foot

[danch]

Nice catch Pete, I've recently built up the courage to try some auto's on my 500 only after practising on Phoenix, certainly scary hitting TH for the first time let alone having to do it for real...

[PeteStewardson]

nothing to do with the fact they have silly little blades LOL common dude get that 700 up and you will be able to auto from a few hundred foot

lol well as soon as Castle send me back my ESC the 700 will be flying. Probably start building it next week ready

[shades]

C'mon Pete.....get the 700 in the air !! Then do some proper autos :-)

[Sesame]

love autos Great fun, but your right, if you practice them even on a sim, if you have an engine failure the natural response is to slam the stick down which is exactly the wrong thing to do, if youve practiced the autos youll have a far better idea of what to do in that situation.

[Lynx.1677]

Nice one Pete, when you at the FOD again? Can't wait to film some more helis!

[Paulice]

Nice save Pete.
Autos are good to learn and can save a lot of money, even a bad auto is better then full speed into the ground.

[PeteStewardson]

Nice one Pete, when you at the FOD again? Can't wait to film some more helis!

Not sure when I'll get over next Dan, will give you a shout though

[chris jones2.4]

you wanna try autoing a 250 mate lol, then you can auto almost anything, well done, try little ones with the 600

[PeteStewardson]

I sold the 600 to fund a 700e, which isn't built yet, so no practice on the 600

Really should get around to changing my sig lol

[Supercaptaincrash]

I love my autos and finish every flight with one! i really think this is the best way to keep on top of them and perfect them