Swashplate Leveling on a B400

[sokal]

I flown it about 9 times and i seem to never get the swash plate to be level iv ajusted the pc links and when i fly and land it bak to being unlelvel also its my first heli with controler settings ive been flying the cpp for 6 months so big change for me any help from you pros would be great

[LockMD]

Are you talking of the heli doesnt look level in flight? That is normal.

[sokal]

no im full aware of the afects of a tail rotor type helicopter in the tendency to hover right side low its the actual swashplate thats not level i can make is level using the links fron servos to swash and when every thing is ready to go looks good and when the batt is done ill see the swash un level once again
im using trim to keep it level ill give you my controler settings if its any help to my problem but if its normal well then thats what its is but just wana know if it is
but i do apreciate any help from you pro's thanx

[JimLerch]

My Belt-CP and My Blade-400 both seem to do this. Basically I believe its a center of gravity issue. When I change batteries on either of them (1800 vs 2200) the weight changes and I have to change elevator trim. End result is the swash is never truly level, both have a little tilt in elevator.

Only way to fix it would be to re-arrange the mass of the chopper so its balanced about the main shaft.

[slopoke]

The swash plate leveling tool for the trex will work if you have one, and yes I've tried it and it works perfect.

[sokal]

hey thanks ill look in to getting one
the swash plate is acualy right side low but ill take in to consideration when i get a bigger batt thanks

[sokal]

ok this is what ive done i put pich curve at 50% during trot hold that way the servos would be in center position and i leveled swash with eye and then set pitch curve on hold to same as stunt to check the -10 +1- i used guage and looks like its set right its raining out so can test yet but if this is a dumb ass way please help me the cpp was so much easier in this regards or if some one can guide me to a site or write the proper way to do a nutrual rig will be nice also witch swash tool is the best to use found many

[slopoke]

http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=11373&page=129
Maybe this will help. Its from the trex forum but if you watch the video on pitch and throttle curves it will help give you a better understanding on how to set it up. As for a swash leveling tool I have the trueblood swash leveling tool for a trex 450.
Oh, and I love my blade 400 too!

[sokal]

hey thanks for the tip also what is a good length of the servo to swash arm to start with