jsanders79
03-05-2008, 07:29 PM
Well, I bit the bullet and purchased a Blade CX2 on Ebay. It arrived in great shape in the original box. I fired it up last night after charging the battery (LiPo will be my first upgrade btw) and began my preflight. Following the manual I checked the operation of both servo's and all appeared well. We're ready to give 'er a spin.
I cleared all the dogs out of the house and positioned the heli in my living room. Upon first spin up I tried right off the bat to hover, but there was WAYYY to much drifting. OK, ok, need to actually finish reading the manual about setting the proportional mixer and not just trying to trim it out on the remote control.
Upon reading the previous posts here and the manual, I noticed I should check blade tracking first. So I set it on my kitchen countertop and spun it up with just enough throttle to not take off. Sure enough, top blade needed to be put into place. Well just about then battery began to die, so I powered it down so as to not over-discharge the LiPo. That was enough for one night.
Just now I had it back down in the kitchen and started adjusting the flybar ball link. After about 4 tries, sure enough that blade was tracking quite nicely. Here's where I screwed up. I got feeling pretty froggy so I took up the heli to about eye level to see how she would hover. There wasn't a whole lot of drift, but enough. Hovered around for about a minute. Then it started heading towards the sink area. Being a rookie pilot I panicked and my first reaction instead of giving it cyclic input was to kill throttle. I thought maybe I can get it down before it gets over to the sink. HA! I wish. It went down alright. However, it was too close to the countertop and the lower rotor caught the counter. One blade is all that's left of the blades. :)
I think that's the only damage I've incurred. About to give it a full post-crash checkout. This is indeed a very addicting hobby. Most fun I've had tearing up something in a LONG time!! :D Off to the post-crash inspection and then LHS tomorrow for new blades. WOOHOO!
I cleared all the dogs out of the house and positioned the heli in my living room. Upon first spin up I tried right off the bat to hover, but there was WAYYY to much drifting. OK, ok, need to actually finish reading the manual about setting the proportional mixer and not just trying to trim it out on the remote control.
Upon reading the previous posts here and the manual, I noticed I should check blade tracking first. So I set it on my kitchen countertop and spun it up with just enough throttle to not take off. Sure enough, top blade needed to be put into place. Well just about then battery began to die, so I powered it down so as to not over-discharge the LiPo. That was enough for one night.
Just now I had it back down in the kitchen and started adjusting the flybar ball link. After about 4 tries, sure enough that blade was tracking quite nicely. Here's where I screwed up. I got feeling pretty froggy so I took up the heli to about eye level to see how she would hover. There wasn't a whole lot of drift, but enough. Hovered around for about a minute. Then it started heading towards the sink area. Being a rookie pilot I panicked and my first reaction instead of giving it cyclic input was to kill throttle. I thought maybe I can get it down before it gets over to the sink. HA! I wish. It went down alright. However, it was too close to the countertop and the lower rotor caught the counter. One blade is all that's left of the blades. :)
I think that's the only damage I've incurred. About to give it a full post-crash checkout. This is indeed a very addicting hobby. Most fun I've had tearing up something in a LONG time!! :D Off to the post-crash inspection and then LHS tomorrow for new blades. WOOHOO!