ghettotige
06-11-2008, 06:58 AM
Why,s every one gone quiet, got my kit Sat 7th June, built by Wednesday with the help from Bob's videos.
I have to say a big thanks to Bob, I've only been flying 18 mnths and as we all know it's mind numbing how much info there is to take in and ive always found it easier to be shown what to do rather than read up on it, he's helped through a trex 450, 600e, 600n and now my Auora build with those vids, so a big thanks Bob.
Any ways love the way the Auora goes together head spindle setup is a little fiddley with that rubber tube and the c-clips but with the right tools (c-clip pliers, soapy water)no biggy other than that she's great.
First test flights were with 690 tst v-blades, and my YS sr engine out of my synergy, found the accuracy amazing she tracks round loops with no imput neccessary to keep her straight but did find it bogged a little at the top of some moves, so I switched to my Raddix stickbanger 710's, this really livened her up and suited my flying style,(throw her around like an idiot) much better :),
The only thing I'am struggling with is the tail fitted with a Spartan Gyro, and a JR 8900g spectrum gain set to 47% and 16mm out on the horn, i getting a small amount of tail judder in fast backwards flight which suggests to me to lower the gain but at the same time in a tail down travelling tic toc while looking at the disk as she travels right to left shes nose is trying to turn to the left, this is probably due to bad pitch inputs but its not something i have had trouble with my 600n.
So 5 flight and probably the first flight that I thought , don't think about the risk just have fun with it I was doing a chaos while pumping the rudder, you know looks like the heli is doing a chaos under a strobe light, well I guess the tail gears did not like it and I lost the tail, put her in throttle hold and tried to bring her in on an inverted auto but lost the head speed, went in head first from about 20ft.
Suprisingly good on the crash inspection, no blade damage, main gears ok, just main spindle bent and broke the tail boom clean off at the boom mount so tail boom, torq drive and rear tail gears will need replacing.
Now although Iknow it was the rear tail gears stripping that caused the crash I can't honestly say that I checked the gear mesh since the buid, so some play might have occured during the first few flights and I know I did not lube the gears like I am supposed too, So we are talking 3 evenings flying with a total 5 flights.
Well I will rebuid and go again, hopefully lesson learnt I will check and lube those gears each flight for a while and see what occurs.
Does this make me the first non team pilot to crash :)
I have to say a big thanks to Bob, I've only been flying 18 mnths and as we all know it's mind numbing how much info there is to take in and ive always found it easier to be shown what to do rather than read up on it, he's helped through a trex 450, 600e, 600n and now my Auora build with those vids, so a big thanks Bob.
Any ways love the way the Auora goes together head spindle setup is a little fiddley with that rubber tube and the c-clips but with the right tools (c-clip pliers, soapy water)no biggy other than that she's great.
First test flights were with 690 tst v-blades, and my YS sr engine out of my synergy, found the accuracy amazing she tracks round loops with no imput neccessary to keep her straight but did find it bogged a little at the top of some moves, so I switched to my Raddix stickbanger 710's, this really livened her up and suited my flying style,(throw her around like an idiot) much better :),
The only thing I'am struggling with is the tail fitted with a Spartan Gyro, and a JR 8900g spectrum gain set to 47% and 16mm out on the horn, i getting a small amount of tail judder in fast backwards flight which suggests to me to lower the gain but at the same time in a tail down travelling tic toc while looking at the disk as she travels right to left shes nose is trying to turn to the left, this is probably due to bad pitch inputs but its not something i have had trouble with my 600n.
So 5 flight and probably the first flight that I thought , don't think about the risk just have fun with it I was doing a chaos while pumping the rudder, you know looks like the heli is doing a chaos under a strobe light, well I guess the tail gears did not like it and I lost the tail, put her in throttle hold and tried to bring her in on an inverted auto but lost the head speed, went in head first from about 20ft.
Suprisingly good on the crash inspection, no blade damage, main gears ok, just main spindle bent and broke the tail boom clean off at the boom mount so tail boom, torq drive and rear tail gears will need replacing.
Now although Iknow it was the rear tail gears stripping that caused the crash I can't honestly say that I checked the gear mesh since the buid, so some play might have occured during the first few flights and I know I did not lube the gears like I am supposed too, So we are talking 3 evenings flying with a total 5 flights.
Well I will rebuid and go again, hopefully lesson learnt I will check and lube those gears each flight for a while and see what occurs.
Does this make me the first non team pilot to crash :)