Gryf
Active member
I had just rebuilt a 400-size heli after its first, and fatal, flight. As it was a pretty hard crash, I had to replace the main frame, tail tube, rotor blades, and all the other stuff that gets trashed when a heli goes in... So it was a pretty extensive rebuild, but it was looking great and I was looking forward to the next attempt at flight.
I had the thing on my desk, with everything assembled except the main rotor blades, and was double-checking all my servo settings. I have no idea what happened next but the motor suddenly powered up to full throttle... And even without the main blades, the tail rotor and fly bar paddles still managed to do plenty of damage before the madly thrashing heli finally flung its battery and died at the other end of the room. I got a nasty slice on a knuckle that bruised, swelled, and looked pretty morbid. My slick Logitech low-profile backlit keyboard lost a couple of keys to the blades, and there are still scratches on my monitor screen.
Yeah, I learned a lot from that... One, to disconnect the motor any time I had the heli on the bench. Also, that learning to fly RC from scratch with a 6-channel CP heli might be starting at the wrong end of the learning curve. BTW, I'd bought the heli second-hand from a friend, who bought a Bixler with the proceeds, which eventually led us both to Flitetest. So yes, something good came out of the mayhem!
Cheers,
Gryf
I had the thing on my desk, with everything assembled except the main rotor blades, and was double-checking all my servo settings. I have no idea what happened next but the motor suddenly powered up to full throttle... And even without the main blades, the tail rotor and fly bar paddles still managed to do plenty of damage before the madly thrashing heli finally flung its battery and died at the other end of the room. I got a nasty slice on a knuckle that bruised, swelled, and looked pretty morbid. My slick Logitech low-profile backlit keyboard lost a couple of keys to the blades, and there are still scratches on my monitor screen.
Yeah, I learned a lot from that... One, to disconnect the motor any time I had the heli on the bench. Also, that learning to fly RC from scratch with a 6-channel CP heli might be starting at the wrong end of the learning curve. BTW, I'd bought the heli second-hand from a friend, who bought a Bixler with the proceeds, which eventually led us both to Flitetest. So yes, something good came out of the mayhem!
Cheers,
Gryf
