Help with forward flight

[mwarren]

I went through 3 battery packs tonight without breaking anything, overall tings went well. My problem comes when I try to fly forward it seems to want to because the front tips forward but it dont go forward kinda sits there in one spot almost hovers this way. If I move my adjustment on the transmitter to make it move forward I can get it to move forward but then every time I take off if instantanly goes for ward from start to forward.

Is this the way it suppose to be?

[futura]

What model are you flying?

[mwarren]

Sorry forgot the most important part, I am flying a Blade CX

[carlo_the_wonder_frog]

It takes practice, you will soon learn to anticipate the helis actions and provide the proper action. TO fly forward you must always be pushing forward on the stick. Also the heli will react much differently closer to the ground as the air is bouncing of the floor and creating a "Ground Effect", higher up is much more stable.

[futura]

If your flying outside into any breaze...however slight...the CX will not go along very well at all. I've seen my son's tilted forward and moving backwards in a breaze barely enough to rustle leaves. We keep it indoors mostly. Great little machine....lots of fun.

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[Heli Jim]

A couple of things to consider here

The heli is VERY stable because of the top rotor

With the controls as the heli comes from the factory, it won't
go real fast in forward flight (FF) What a lot of guys do after they
have mastered basic hovering and slow FF, they move the control arms out one hole on the servo arms.

This will give MORE input to the forward flight but there are some things
to watch out for too. If you are not real smooth with the controls, you
can have blade strikes. This means that the lower blade can hit the upper
blade. This can cause some real problems--I'm sure you can imagine.

What some have done is shorten their lower blades to 5.5" (the stock length is 6.125") from hub to tip and this seems to help with the blade strike.

You do have to re-adjust the mixing pot on the 4-in-one after doing this, too.

Hope this helps you out some..........

jim

[mwarren]

I have got forward flight figured out, I flew 2 batterys today all using forward control. I have flown 6 batterys in 2 days with out incident untill my last flight. I flew about 30 yards out and spun it around and headed back in when all of a sudden things went really crazy, it came back really fast and when I let off the forward some it like kept going and would not turn I had it high enough I had time to try letting off the throttle and giving it more turn but still forward it went and down, boom! broke all 4 blades, cracked canopy in 4 places and had my pride hurt.

Has anyone had this to happen to them? I wonder was the 4 n 1 to hot or the motors too hot, I flew 2 batteries back to back and I could feel the heat off the motors warming the canopy. I lost a couple of rubber pieces that hold canopy on have no idea where to get those from.

Thanks for you guys help on forward flight, I have enjoyed this helicopter so much since I have learned to fly it, I have been addicted for a while but this has really got me hooked, if I can only figure out why this this went craxzy today.

Oh yea I ordered me another FP heli last week, I got a Falcon 40 to get some more practice in, I am trying to get good enough to justify buying a Trex. I would like to one day be able to fly aerobatics like some of those videos I have watched on this forum.

Sorry to talk so much but I am really happy about my flight skills improving so much.

[Heli Jim]

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that after you flew out, and turned,
you were then going DOWNWIND. Even though the wind might have been
very slight, it will still push that heli along pretty good--hence the look of
coming back really fast.

To turn back into the wind again, it will feel like you are using a whole lot
more input (rudder stick) to make it turn.

I have had this happen to me and when it gets high, you have to ease off the
power a bit and still hold forward stick and the heli should fly forwards and down.

BUT remember........these are to be flown outside in REALLY calm air. Even the
slightest breeze will have an affect on the flight path. The heli is literally "light as
a feather".

Hope you didn't bust it up too bad. Good thing that parts are cheap for this bird!

jim

[Schlumph]

I can attest to that as well. The outside flight dynamics are dramatically different than that of the indoors.

[Fan M]

I flew with the wind and it got very fast so that I panicked and turned the rudder around too quickly. This caused the blades to touch each other. The heli came down like a stone. Fortunately, I was flying above a soft ground. There was only little damage except for the blades.

I agree with Heli Jim:

"If you are not real smooth with the controls, you
can have blade strikes."

If the heli doesn't have enough power to fly against the wind it is better to stop flying and try again another time or at another place.

When I crash the heli, I immediately pull down the throttle stick in order to save the motors and gearwheels.

Mike