Steven_[CWU]
05-31-2009, 01:57 PM
After having experience with nitro RC aircraft, I started a new challenge of flying helicopters. I decided to start with a 6 channel heli, cause there was no real reason to start with something so beginner, and that was the HBKV2 that I chose. I had played a couple times with the sim at a hobby shop and decided to give the helicopter's a go, didn't do that bad. So from being stuck in college and having some time open on the weekends, with limited space on the campus, it was time to get a heli to mess with. First, impressions of the heli were great, the appearance and construction looked good in my opinion.
So first flight, I decided not to use training gear, because from sim experience I wasn't having trouble with landing and taking off. So first flight went pretty well, other than I think I didn't give the gyro enough time to sync, resulting in the tail spinning out of control. I managed to crash land it on the skids and it just lightly flipped over, no damage seen. After replacing parts for the head assembly, from testing the fly bar paddle tracking without the main blades on, and moving the collective in different direction's, some part failed and caused several other parts to fail. Okay, after fixing everything that was broken lol, putting together the feathering shaft, I noticed that there were more threads one side than that other. I noticed that later this wouldn't cause any significant vibration. What I did notice though, that the stock washout assembly is junk, like it failed twice. Well, now I know to replace it with the belt cp washout. Well, I have a belt cp coming in the mail, that I won on Ebay for like $41, just in kit form with carbon fiber blades. As for the HBKV2, I'm probably going to fix it than give it to my brother to mess with, let all troubles and responsibilities on his shoulders.:thumbup:
So first flight, I decided not to use training gear, because from sim experience I wasn't having trouble with landing and taking off. So first flight went pretty well, other than I think I didn't give the gyro enough time to sync, resulting in the tail spinning out of control. I managed to crash land it on the skids and it just lightly flipped over, no damage seen. After replacing parts for the head assembly, from testing the fly bar paddle tracking without the main blades on, and moving the collective in different direction's, some part failed and caused several other parts to fail. Okay, after fixing everything that was broken lol, putting together the feathering shaft, I noticed that there were more threads one side than that other. I noticed that later this wouldn't cause any significant vibration. What I did notice though, that the stock washout assembly is junk, like it failed twice. Well, now I know to replace it with the belt cp washout. Well, I have a belt cp coming in the mail, that I won on Ebay for like $41, just in kit form with carbon fiber blades. As for the HBKV2, I'm probably going to fix it than give it to my brother to mess with, let all troubles and responsibilities on his shoulders.:thumbup: