oseeler
03-25-2007, 02:32 AM
Hiya All,
This is my first post here, I'm a newbie with about 6 weeks worth of more or less cheerfuly emptying my wallet on helis, and I'm having a lot of fun so far. I started with a CX which is of course still my main bird. I also have ReaFlight's G3.5 sim, and I'm very slowly and very carefully building a T-Rex SE. (I don't have heli experience, but I'm a major tool-user...).
Today, having gotten a bit tired of waiting for dead calm air here on the north coast of Califonia air to fly the CX, and also getting tired of its general mushiness, I bought a CP Pro. This afternoon I got it airborn briefly, and I think I'll do OK with it except for one thing:
The world here is not paved. There's grass and dirt around our old farmouse. There are twigs and leaves and such on the ground. The CPP tail rotor has 3/16" (three teeny-weeny sixteenths of an inch!!!!) of ground clearance! Do the designers of this bird live on sheets of glass? And what's up with that spike masquerading as a tail stand?
The only way I can get airborn without the tail rotor hitting something nearly every time is to pop the heli into the air, which is not comfortable for me yet.
I see three possible solutions (without getting into elaborate projects):
1) Sleeve the bottom of the post with a curved tubular skid, which would kill two birds with one stone (pardon the expression) in raising the tail and keeping that ridiculous pencil-lead from sinking into ant-holes and such. the drawback would be that the heli would be leaning forward. How bad would that be?
2) Fit a smaller diameter prop (or cut the stock one down). Any advice on this?
3) Raise the main landing gear. Is there a bolt-on way to do that or do I have to re-invent the wheel?
Thanks very much for any help and I hope to return the favor further down the road.
Happy Flying,
Oliver
This is my first post here, I'm a newbie with about 6 weeks worth of more or less cheerfuly emptying my wallet on helis, and I'm having a lot of fun so far. I started with a CX which is of course still my main bird. I also have ReaFlight's G3.5 sim, and I'm very slowly and very carefully building a T-Rex SE. (I don't have heli experience, but I'm a major tool-user...).
Today, having gotten a bit tired of waiting for dead calm air here on the north coast of Califonia air to fly the CX, and also getting tired of its general mushiness, I bought a CP Pro. This afternoon I got it airborn briefly, and I think I'll do OK with it except for one thing:
The world here is not paved. There's grass and dirt around our old farmouse. There are twigs and leaves and such on the ground. The CPP tail rotor has 3/16" (three teeny-weeny sixteenths of an inch!!!!) of ground clearance! Do the designers of this bird live on sheets of glass? And what's up with that spike masquerading as a tail stand?
The only way I can get airborn without the tail rotor hitting something nearly every time is to pop the heli into the air, which is not comfortable for me yet.
I see three possible solutions (without getting into elaborate projects):
1) Sleeve the bottom of the post with a curved tubular skid, which would kill two birds with one stone (pardon the expression) in raising the tail and keeping that ridiculous pencil-lead from sinking into ant-holes and such. the drawback would be that the heli would be leaning forward. How bad would that be?
2) Fit a smaller diameter prop (or cut the stock one down). Any advice on this?
3) Raise the main landing gear. Is there a bolt-on way to do that or do I have to re-invent the wheel?
Thanks very much for any help and I hope to return the favor further down the road.
Happy Flying,
Oliver