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12-28-2016, 07:48 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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450 X leans to the right
Hey guys,
My 450 X slightly leans to the right when in a hover. This makes it more difficult to hover nose right tail left and fly forwards as it leans towards me. The swashplate seems to look level, which I thought perhaps it was not. Any tips/tricks to adjust this, or is this just the way a heli like this flies/hovers? Thanks |
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12-28-2016, 08:15 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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All helis lean a bit in a hover to counteract the lateral thrust of the tail rotor.
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12-28-2016, 08:24 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Check the tail blades, if they're missing any plastic to the form the vibes it might gives off can piss off the fbl unit and cause right roll of death. What's your unit mounted to? Ever since changing to Lynx vibe killer I have had less vibe issues across all my heli
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12-29-2016, 05:48 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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All good suggestions above. Make sure you don't have a busted landing strut also. I try to go with the obvious first, but if that fails it's the old head scratching time.
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12-29-2016, 06:58 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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As per first reply, leaning to the right in a stationary hover is totally normal and not a fault in any way. For any single rotor heli with clockwise rotor the heli has to lean right to counteract the thrust from the tail rotor which would otherwise push the heli to the left. (with a CCW main rotor the tilt would be the opposite way)
the technical term for this is 'translating tendency':
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12-29-2016, 01:42 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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I mean I'm assuming he's talking about a considerable drift or right bank causing his hover to be harder to control than normal....
Check belt tension as well make sure no teeth are slipping
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12-29-2016, 01:51 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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He didnt mention any drift, just 'leaning right'.. which is standard.
No point in advising him to conduct a fault finding 'wild goose chase' when the behavior described appears to be perfectly normal.
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12-30-2016, 10:32 AM | #8 (permalink) |
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Yep,no biggie and it's normal for a FBL heli.
None of my FB heli's do that. I have a 130x RedBull that has a counter clockwise rotation and it lean slightly to the left. I suppose that a tandem rotor FBL heli would remain perfectly upright in a hover while looking cool. |
12-30-2016, 02:50 PM | #9 (permalink) | |
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Tandem rotors and coaxials dont need to lean because they dont have a tail rotor.
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12-31-2016, 05:58 AM | #10 (permalink) | |
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When it gets warmer so I don't freeze my blue berries off, I'll hover a FB heli and check it out. After all off these decades of flying Fb heli's,I just don't remember the lean that a FBL does. That is why I noticed it with my first FBL heli. I could be wrong,I was wrong once before when I thought that I was incorrect. (That was just a example of a really bad joke) I should also change my name to Grumpiest Old Man. After thinking about it,maybe I don't think that FB heli's tilt because all of mine are 600's or 700's. Maybe the tilt isn't as noticeable with larger helicopters as it is with smaller ones? Thinking some more,maybe it's a weight placement thing? All of my larger FB heli's are nitro so the weight is on the bottom,electrics have the weight more above the horizontal center line. Last edited by CrashandBurn; 12-31-2016 at 07:15 PM.. |
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