Mini Titan leans to right ... why?

[Zilla]

I have flown a total of about 8 packs with my new Mini titan. This is my first RC Heli so iam only hovering at this stage.
After the first 3 or 4 packs and a few hard landings (but nothing broken) the heli started drifting to the left and leaning to the right. I have got rid of the left drift but the heli still hangs to the right. It hovers reasonably stable like this but iam sure it could be a whole lot better.
The swash plate looks to be level and tracking seems to be fine but I am not very experienced at checking this.
I am using training gear but I dont think that is the problem.
So what could it be ?? Any ideas ??

Thanks

Tim.

[BarracudaHockey]

The tail rotor blows the heli to the left, its called translating tendency and happens with a clockwise main rotor. You need right cyclic to compensate.

Its normal they all do it. Even the real ones though most of them lean to the left because they have a left hand rotation main rotor.

[Zilla]

Yeah just didnt think it should lean this much and it didnt seem to lean much at all for the first few packs.

[Al Austria]

Cuda's got it. I can pretty much guarantee that it has always leaned the same amount, you probably just weren't as critical of it before.

[EricW]

Thanks for the info guys,
I also wondered why this was happening in a hover.
especially when you look at the tracking with the horizon in the background.
Now i have Carbon blades it seems less, is this because they have less drag than the woodies and the tail has to compensate less?

Eric

[stevehonn]

I wouldn't have thought that the type of blades used would make any difference. The fact that all clockwise rotation helis hover right skid low is a constant source of problems to beginners, they try to trim the heli out to hover level and it always keeps drifting left rapidly :)

This only causes problems when you buy a Vario heli as this has anti-clockwise rotation and hover left skid low, after years of conditioning this gives me trouble!

[BarracudaHockey]

I wouldn't have thought that the type of blades used would make any difference. The fact that all clockwise rotation helis hover right skid low is a constant source of problems to beginners, they try to trim the heli out to hover level and it always keeps drifting left rapidly :)

This only causes problems when you buy a Vario heli as this has anti-clockwise rotation and hover left skid low, after years of conditioning this gives me trouble!

Yep, I reversed a Logo 10 for my Approach Engineering Cobra and ran into the same problem, I keept trying to trim it right because it was leaning left.

[Zilla]

Yeah thanks for the info everyone. It probably was leaning the same in first few packs. It was the first time I had flown a heli so I was thinking of other things at the time.
I think the training gear would make it look worse than a heli without it also.

Tim.

[stevehonn]

Yeah thanks for the info everyone. It probably was leaning the same in first few packs. It was the first time I had flown a heli so I was thinking of other things at the time.
I think the training gear would make it look worse than a heli without it also.

Tim.

There's certainly plenty to think about during your first flights and watching the skids probably comes way down the list :) Because of the wider base of the training gear it will make it look particularly bad.

[BarracudaHockey]

The other thing is it can be more or less pronounced depending on the wind direction.