Mini Titan thread on HF

[buzzbird]

After having a browse, and seeing this No control straight into the ground at full speed outcome - HeliFreak I am so glad I'm not there any more. So many thick f*ckwits on there now it's unbelievable.
I pity any Mini Titan owners going there for help.

[iceuk]

this is part of the post further on,

You said you made a turn and it crashed while coming back towards you. Then you said you were 500 meters from the crash.
How the heck can you even see a 325 size heli 500 meters away?


Yea that was a bit of an exageration, it was more like 100 metres away...

[Varelco]

That seems like a pretty normal thread for HF to be fair. There are some real crackers on there, it definitely has it characters. I find you have to sift through pages and pages of utter rubbish before you find the info your after, its frustrating because there is some seriously poor advice sometimes. I read a post recently where one guy said the Torodial cores on ESC cables are there to keep the cable tidy.... Shame really as there is alot of good info on there.

Doesnt have the community feel like heliaddicts either, Americans cant banter like the Brits

[buzzbird]

By his own admission, it was 300 feet away when it went in. At that range he'd've been lucky to see it, let alone what it was doing. (Also note he's got the E325S, which has the narrowest-profile canopy of all the MTs).
Yet they blabber on about brownouts and tell him to buy a bec, when it just comes down to him flying it beyond his abilities.

I googled the park I sometimes fly my MT at, and it is exactly 300ft long. Mine's out of sight in half that distance.

edit: I agree about the community feel here, and the ribbing. HF's got too many with humour-bypasses.

[SKYLON]

i read through that post and it seemed the simplest explanation was a wrong input. he didnt seem very experienced. occams razor, and all that.

[Mike Sanders]

I agree that this is a great forum. The yanks can get a bit hysterical.

No-one here gets hysterical!

[helijohn]

After having a browse, and seeing this No control straight into the ground at full speed outcome - HeliFreak I am so glad I'm not there any more. So many thick f*ckwits on there now it's unbelievable.
I pity any Mini Titan owners going there for help.

I'm not sure I see your point.

I've had many problems solved rapidly from there.

They can be a bit garrulous and there are lots of subscribers. You suddenly find pages of posts on threads so it can be tough reading all the comments. It can be very busy.

I have a Mini Titan incidentally.

[buzzbird]

It's an old thread, mostly guy flies dumb thumbs into the ground, and then everyone on that thread is diagnosing brownouts, faulty servos, nicked servo wires. The guy crashed because the heli was out of sight ffs.
That was my point.

Oh, you have an MT too? I thought I was the only one left still flying/owning one.
I haven't flown mine in months as the parts seem to be endangered species and I never know if the next crash is gonna be its last!

[Sheldrake]

Tso of us at CMHC fly Mini Titans, lovely machines. Mine is the cheap n cheerful 325s FBL and the other guy has a posh one!
you are right about spares though as I crashed recently and am struggling to find the bits!!

[buzzbird]

Yeah I've noticed the spares list at Fast Boyz and Midlands shrink a lot over the months.
Our birds are 8 years old in December, and that's jurassic for a heli.
With Helikraft gone, and those two not stocking very much, it's gonna be a hunt for a new heli soon.

[SKYLON]

its not that bad yet, esp if you crash rarely or lightly. its quite a tough heli and most things, like the frame survive a crash. the main service parts like main shaft, gear, boom, feather shaft etc seem to be commonly available. it would be easy to buy a few of each which would keep you going for years. theres tough and cheap fiber glass canopies on hk, blades are just 450 ones and skids can be 450 ones too. a lot of things can be patched up. the really expensive electronic bits like servos, fbl unit, rx, motor, esc etc are universal. the head could also also be off a 450. if it really got that bad you could always buy a damaged one off ebay cheap and cannibalize parts off it. even if main gears, booms etc dried up totally, which i doubt, theres other ways of keeping going.

[Sheldrake]

Thanks Skylon and Buzzbird! Think I just need to look a bit harder for what I need? Must admit I have had some great experience from mine and it does actually crash very well!!
Think I was just looking for an excuse to try something different!
Will get it sorted and flying again before Christmas, just realised it owes me nothing as it is two years old this winter, incredible really?