will 500 landing gear fit?

[Suburban92]

Originally Posted by thanasi

Just ran out to my lhs and picked mine up and installed !
Can someone tell me what the straw like tube is for ?

FM antenna

[thanasi]

Are u kidding me LOL what ? How ?

[Tesla]

Yeah you run your antenna through that. Old FM style had like a 2 foot antenna, I used to just coil it around the boom support, I never liked the straw. Plus it was a pain to try and push the antenna through that thing whew.

[thanasi]

Thanks Tesla now i get it, im new school so i have only seen the wee ones !

[tomd27858]

Ya'll are making me feel old. I remember learning to fly planes with an AM radio and it was huge to upgrade to FM and PCM.

[thanasi]

Sorry Tom, i thought you where making fun of me
We learn something every day !

[tomd27858]

Things have changed...what is funny...I remember when my mom went to class 30 some odd years ago to learn how to cook with a microwave.

[Auskenny]

the 450 looks good with the 500 gear on

does anyone run the 500 tail fins to keep the blades off the ground even more?

[PittJitsu]

Originally Posted by Auskenny

the 450 looks good with the 500 gear on

does anyone run the 500 tail fins to keep the blades off the ground even more?

I only run the 500 tail to keep my ty gears up off the grass. Works great.

[thanasi]

Originally Posted by PittJitsu

I only run the 500 tail to keep my ty gears up off the grass. Works great.

+1 I think im doing that next when i retire the 500 gear

[PittJitsu]

Try it, it works great

[Luvmyhelis]

Originally Posted by Auskenny

the 450 looks good with the 500 gear on

does anyone run the 500 tail fins to keep the blades off the ground even more?

I did at one time, however I noticed that the extra vertical stab sometimes tagged the ground and caused gyro headaches. So I pulled it off and just run the 500 skids now and it works perfectly.
I even loaded up my trainer heli with T600 skids instead of those stupid gangly training gear sets and it worked just stellar. The reason I did that is that I was using a flymentor with a bubble level and I could create a flat spot anywhere to initialize the FM with, and the extra long skid tubes kept the tail off the ground no matter what.
I do run Cf 500 tail blades on mine though.