Shaking

[patrickvdb]

Hello,

I did it, finally I did it, it was just a matter of time, but I crashed my dear heli.
Very stupid, stupid, I wasn't even flying anymore. I touched down, the grass was a bit to long and it got caught in the rudder, it flipped the heli a bit and the main rotor got caught in the tail boom.
The tail boom was a bit bend, but that's all the damage I had, not even the rotor was broken :noteworthy.
I had to straigthen the boom,and the boom is a bit pinched where the rotor touched it. The heli looks like he is working fine again when hoovering, however when I take a bit more altitude, its starts shaking.... any ideas what this could be?

[Jermo]

bent feathering shaft, bent main shaft, damaged bearings..etc.

[BigMike]

Bent Tail Rotor Shaft, chipped tail rotor or main rotor???

[patrickvdb]

Actually guys,... it wasn't so bad:

It was just the tail-rotor cable which was to loose.
I noticed it when the heli started to turn in to the wind and the gyro was trying to correct... it didn't work the heli started turning round his vertical axes.

I then inspected the tail-rotor and tightened the tailrotor cable.

The problem was fixed: correct tail-rotor action, no more shaking.

It's not all that bad, try and look more at the bright side :lol:

So, my baby flies like an charm again (for now)