Dancing zempekiko with the belt!!

[xip21r]

Today it was (after sometime now) a windless day so i went to the field to make
for real what i was prctising all those days in sim.
I was hovering fine tail in litlle above eye height so i thought lets rest my fingers before i go nose in and .... the heli the moment i left the sticks loose started to pitch down (at first slowly and increasingly very fast) then drifting left and then drifting backwards and to the right and all that in a half meter cycle.
Then i went about 10 meters high so it has nothing to do with turbulence , the same thing.
It sheemed like the TBE of lammas but my paddles where dead zero deegrees and equal spaced.
The only thing i could think of was that i had snapped the thing that goes inside the tail boom and hold the tail blades assembly vertical so i landed and checked ...nothing
Main shaft new, feathering shaft new , blades tracking ok .
I had a steady high frequency shake on the horizontal fin but nothing to much or noticeable other than the tail fin.
Then i tried a half turn anticlockwise and the tali went down and the heli drifted diagonial to the right and :arggg:
Any sugestions?

[Real_Sparky]

Dont take your fingers off the sticks.:YeaBaby: This is my only suggestion.:)

Darin

[another_finn]

I agree - can only suggest you fly the helicopter. I didn't really see what the problem is, apart from it not being a Lama and not behaving like they do in FMS :confused:

There's nothing self-stabilizing about a collective pitch heli. The only unusual part is that it decided to drift in a slow circle instead of heading off to the first direction it happened to start leaning in. Must have been a totally windless day and a very well set up machine.

Just keep your fingers on the sticks where they belong, and enjoy the flight :thumbup:

[DierWolf]

if you take your fingers off the sticks (which were probably at the time holding the swash flat becuase thats where your fingers had it) and let it go, naturally it would pitch in whatever direction the swash is set at at no input and slowly then rapidly move in that direction.

its obvious your setup isnt completely level, your padles might be that that doesnt mean a thing if your swash isnt levelled.

As the 2 people above suggested to you, fly the heli, Heli's dont fly themselves, its not a plank where you can just let go of the sticks and watch it zoom by.

If your into no hands flying i would suggest you invest in Helicommand, then and only then should you consider letting your fingers go (or you have a proper setup where it will allow you to do so for a few seconds at a time)

[Heli Yea!]

If you want to rest your fingers put the bird down. If you want to loose your fingers take em' off the sticks!:thumbup: