crashing

[Rappy1]

So how many times have you damaged your machine. tell us your crash stories come on I no people have them, don't be scared to tell

[vapochilled]

Christ, where to start?
Self taught(still) on a blade CPP, most crashes were when landing, or trying to. Most involved main blades and setting up the head again, I've got good at it,lol

[Rappy1]

Crash 1: Caliber 30, only 1 day old first flight the battery in the tx started to go flat as i thought low voltage beeper would have made noise when battery was low, It did once the heli crashed, I was about to try take off when it died so collective was up a bit and power was on. It nosed up on skids and the blades hit the ground. Near buy was a tin shed which now has a big dent in from where the lead in the end of the blade hit.

Crash 2; Caliber 30, Flying on a rugby field when a indian wanted to see how i used the sticks when i was flying so kept getting closer and closer to me which made me fell uneasy, lost control of heli and was fighting to get it back under control when it hit the top of the rugby post and almost wrote the heli off

Crash 3 Raptor 50, Took off and flying around hard out for a few tanks. on my 4th tank went to take off and just started to dip the nose to get some speed up when alieron servo failed which sent into the ground on its side. thank god for carbon blades they don't make a mess when they hit the ground due to steel rod that hold leading edge.

[Rappy1]

[QUOTE= I've got good at it,lol[/QUOTE]

Is that crashing or setting up the head :D

[vapochilled]

Is that crashing or setting up the head :D

Lol, both unfortunately :p

[Rappy1]

o well at least you no you are pushing your limit when you crash. i havent had one for awhile (touch wood) i must be flying like a nana. I think i am trying to talk my way out of a future crash. It cant be to far away before i start getting cocky and prang it

[blax1]

o well at least you no you are pushing your limit when you crash. i havent had one for awhile (touch wood) i must be flying like a nana. I think i am trying to talk my way out of a future crash. It cant be to far away before i start getting cocky and prang it

Hey Td, there is that word again LOL :)

Oh BTW I had a bad accident with a Blade CX I,m writing the story will post later Chow!! :D

[tdswan]

Ahh yes! The dreaded "prang" we've spoke of!!! I've had many this year! Only one can be considered directly my fault, the rest were indirectly because of mechanical failures.
#1: My headspeed dropped too low on an auto with my Raptor 50 and when it landed, a blade folded and took out the tail boom. $180
#2: I forgot to flip the idle-up on my T-Rex and proceeded to do a stationary flip. Worst part on this one is that I ruined the 401, so this one was pricey for a T-Rex. $160
#3: A servo failed on my T-Rex and pulled so much back cyclic that it caused a boom strike instantaneously. $100, but I now have extra parts for the next one ;)
#4: The choke vibrated shut on my Predator Gasser and brought the engine to an idle. This one would have been OK if I had made it to short grass. I autoed it down and held it above the tall grass as long as I could to bleed off speed, but it was no use. Once the blades hit the grass, it was all over. $285
#5: A ball came loose on my Predator Gasser in flight and it came down like a rock after that. A rock with food-processor blades attached to it. Another $285.
The sad part, all through my learning curve in the first year I was flying, I had no crashes what-so-ever. I had to get good before the crashes started. :mad:

[CLM]

Hrrm crshes, not many in my leaerning unless you count the blade cx that I even crashed just to show people how well it survived crashes :eek: I also crashed a vnr3d and a blade cp a few times but they don't count as they were already mostly fubar. As for correct crashes, well

1) which I attribute as my first crash, a walkera 36 with t-rex brushless motor, eflite traning gear, and night fall. It was my first time trying to hover a real heli, the first few times didn't count as that blasted brushed junk motor didn't have enough power to barely create ground effect. I had rushed to put the brushless out of the rex(untested as I had never flown the rex to that point) into the walkera and taken it outside to test it. It had ALOT more power then that brushed can motor! It lept up out of ground effect, drifted into a shadow (It was night remember...) and I decided to bring it down as I couldn't see. I eased it down and then whammo, those e-flite training balls flexxed and dumped the walkera on it's side bending the hollow main shaft, wiping out my blades and breaking both grips... And really pumping my eagerness to fly! I ended up getting two main shafts and 2 sets of grips 2nd dayed to me at the cost of $50... meanwhile I had already straigtened the mainshaft and repaired the grips as I was too impaitient. I did swap out the grips when they arrived, but the main shaft has not been replaced. I did find out later on that I had tweaked the feathering shaft some months later when I went over the tail setup and freed it up, it then shook like a mad dog and I started flying the rex as I had no feathering shafts for it. (I changed it over to a t-rex feathering shaft recently but it has no motor/gyro/esc in it right now)

(by the way, because of the issue the training gear caused, I have not used training gear on any other heli after that... maybe when I get the nexus togeter.. maybe)

2) my second major crash was really a very minor "prang" I had just installed my konitronik jazz and spun up the t-rex and the heli didn't like the curves at that point and it drifted into a cabnet and ate the blades and broke a mixing lever, no other damage. Blades were replaced, mixing levers were upgraded to aluminum... And throttle curve was changed!

3) my last major "prang" was also with the rex, I was flying from sandy ground in a very windy area and the sand snagged a skid and tipped the heli over, the blade smacked the boom, very unexiting. I ended up replacing the boom and the main gear as it broke a tooth, but I'm still using the blades :rolleyes: Oh I used that point to recolor the heli from yellow also.

There have been other minor mishaps, snagging the tail blade on grass or carpet and popping the drive gear off the shaft(yeah I need the metal one... I know) coming in a little hot and breaking a landing gear strut but those are the biggest "prangs" I've done :)

Chris

P.S. I think I've figured out nose in on the sim.. not very locked in feeling yet, so It will stay in the sim a while longer :cool:

[blax1]

LOL!!!! I see the "Prang" is infiltrating :D
Don't over do it though :eek:

[blax1]

It was about this time last year, summer stinking hot!!! At about 1800 hrs I decided to get the Blade CX out for a bit of fun, I don’t fly it inside, I like my furniture and electronics the way they are NOT damaged by chopper rotors, and my wife appreciates my hobby OUTSIDE—anyway, out on to our back deck area which isn’t large but the CX goes alright out there it is a roofed veranda area plenty of space to do figures eights etc, I used the first battery pack and the CX was going really well I’ve been flying her for seven months and there had been no major drama, on this day nothing had changed and the chopper was going really great, so I decided to fly her over the hand rail and out in to the back yard area, there are a few trees in the way but I figured I would just manoeuvrer around them, first mistake!! I had to go further away from the deck, so I thought that altitude would be a good idea , so as to give me more room to swing her back towards the deck, second mistake!! Mother Nature throw in her wild card and what was a very still day suddenly became a rather breezy and the wind was being affected by the trees and undulating topography of my yard which is sloping down and back toward the bush out the back which eventually becomes a National Park, needless to say the CX was swept up into the atmosphere probably somewhere around 100 feet, the whole aircraft was spinning like a top and I had absolutely no control over it what so ever, the machine was by now being blown down wind and out of the bush area and it was just a dot in the sky , needless to say I lost radio contact and it was just out of control , eventually the rotors just shut down and she descended into the scrub. I could hear it crashing though tree branches; I manage to line up her descent with a tree and a post on the back deck to give me some idea of where she crashed. So off I went into the bush to retrieve her using my some what inaccurate bearing, I got pretty close to her by using this method but what eventually made her location obvious was acrid smell of something burning!!!!! Holy crap I haven’t started a bloody bush fire with this thing I hoped!!! Eventually I found her a the base of a stringy bark gumtree, very much worse for ware, broken skids, some of the tail fin missing, but the biggest problem was the Li-po she had been punctured and had expanded and the ensuring heat had completely melted the 4 in1 the motors were burnt, the fuselage was melted and covered in black soot. My CX was a write off. I was lucky to not have started a fire in the bush that day. I walked slowly back up to the house with my Heli- which absolutely stunk, burnt plastic and lithium, (not good) my wife was staring at me probably thinking, what a **** head!! It was a crap afternoon, I wasn’t happy!!!!The main rotors funnily enough where OK, I couldn’t believe that!! not a mark on them, but the rest!!! Forget it!!! I got on the net latter that night and ordered another one, but we DO NOT leave the deck area at all!!!! :D

Another of life’s lessons :)
Cheers Ralph

Here is a shot of my deck area

[heliry2]

nice deck and view there blax1

at least we didn't hear on the news about the **** head
who started the latest fire with his heli.

[Rappy1]

cricky mate what a drama. There is nothing worse than trying to work out which direction the heli is facing when it is high in the sky and it is moving fast. On the subject of crashes i am going out for a fly now hopefully i return with my heli the way it is.

[schwa]

sorry for the crash, but that was a great f#$%ing story

[tdswan]

LOL!
That is a pretty good one, Ralph! Sounds like the wife's fears were warranted!

[vapochilled]

Damn it!
was out this afternoon with the CPP, about half way through one pack, flipped the flight mode and did my first inverted, along way up :D Flicked it back to normal, carried on flying for a few seconds and decided to loop.
Was about 50 feet up, into the wind, dived down at about 20o to gain speed, pulled back, got to the top of the loop and ran out of steam.
Not usually a problem, it just slides over and recovers, well for some reason, I can only think it was the cold, I froze and just watch it go nose in from about 40 foot!! :mad: :eek:
Tail boom got hit with the rotors Super skids smashed into pieces, Main blades wrecked, 3in 1 knocked loose, lipo monitor ripped clean off it's wires.
Canopy ripped.
not checked the servos yet, but I'm not hopeful

To be honest, I'm not sure if it's worth repairing, time and money. But I don't want to fly the HDX if that's the outcome,lol
Only thing that does not have a mark on it is the lipo, which is weird as it's at the front :confused:

add to that list, main shaft, flybar and feathering shaft. servos are good as is the blade grips.

[blax1]

Very sorry to read that!! :( vapo-

[Rappy1]

[QUOTE=vapochilled]QUOTE]
Don't worry mate i just crashed to but in my piper j3 cub, I had been flying around for awhile so thought i would practice soom touch and goes they went fine until it ran out of fuel just as i was going full stick and about 2m off the ground near the end of the runway. the runway at my club has nets at the end of the runway to catch plans and also as bit of a guide for landing. after engine had cut it was almost at these nets when it landed and the prop must of dug into the ground and it pretty much half tore the firewall off. ah looks like this weekend is fixing planes

[blax1]

AAAhhhh!!! Hello!!!! are we discussing real planes that you sit in or RC????? :eek:

[Rappy1]

AAAhhhh!!! Hello!!!! are we discussing real planes that you sit in or RC????? :eek:
Sorry mate only r/c. nothing to exciting

[blax1]

Ok cool I just wanted to clarify that :D

[Rappy1]

On such a hot 30+ deg c day with no wind it must be time to sit back and get stuck into a few beers

[heli-cuzz]

Enough talk, here's my C-30 on vid doing the heli-kartwheel. The engine had 28 to 30 gallons on it and it just couldn't hold its headspeed anymore. LoL @ the wife's sarcastic sigh.

Click here to watch Caliber kartwheel (http://media.putfile.com/MOV00001-21)

I've been on a roll with my C-5, just into the 14th gallon now. :)

[vapochilled]

oooo, you looked happy :mad:

[blax1]

At least you shut it down pretty quick!! :cool: I've seen those things chicken dancing for minutes on other vids :eek:

[heli-cuzz]

oooo, you looked happy :mad:

Only damage was broken skids and blades. I actually laughed when that one went down. I had my 50 up ten minutes later. :)

Ralph, that engine was bogging badly. No power to deliver the chicken dance.

Now the C-30 is being equipped for nite flying.

[Michael121]

Flying a cheap FP going good inside a courtyard until a gust of wind took it and the receiver conked out no control watched it slam into a brick wall sideways.

Broke the tailboom, the canopy went flying on its own, had another so I replaced the tail. I then modified the rest and used some Blade CPP parts from the LHS to rebuild. Now it's a modded collection of parts it flies. Still FP but it lets me practice some without a lot of cost.

I broke down and bought Realflight so I am spending more time on sims.

[Hoomi]

The closest to a crash I've come so far is the only time I flew my Axe EZ outside and a slight gust of breeze blew it over. No damage (knock on wood).

My son has crashed his Blade CX several times flying it outside. He's broken the inner-shaft headpiece three times, and the last crash broke off the tip of one of the lower rotor blades, broke the outershaft headpiece, and the inner shaft headpiece. He's waiting for all the parts he needs to be in stock at Hobbyzone to get his order in. As I recall, that last crash involved the rotors contacting a curb.

[heli-cuzz]

I've been trying to crash, it's not happening for some odd reason. :)

[TORO]

AHHA HHAHA !!!!

you guys oughta see my wall of shame in the garage... I take and zip tie all my broken rotors to the grate I have for hanging my tools, and stuff. I must have at least 10 sets of broken rotors up there... thats from about 8 months of hardcore flying, about 3x a week. I just put in a rappy 50 the other day not bad, but stuffed it going low... Oh well its only parts.

[heli-cuzz]

AHHA HHAHA !!!!

you guys oughta see my wall of shame in the garage... I take and zip tie all my broken rotors to the grate I have for hanging my tools, and stuff. I must have at least 10 sets of broken rotors up there...


I'm building my wall of shame too. I'm not ten sets strong yet. About 6 smackdowns for me. I fly everyday. :)
Here's my wall of shame. The helis in stow position are RTF.

[mongoose]

I just started flying and I think I may be almost spending as much on blades as my little bird. (CX2) :mad:

[mongoose]

Actually I have the honor of saying that I have broken all four blades on my CX2 in the same crash. The day of my maiden flight with the CX2, and the first time to ever have flown, I was flying in my garage and was doing pretty well. Well after a while I got a little overconfident and tried to land on the washing machine. Oh and the washer has a shelf right above it. So I was approaching pretty well actually then I guess I overcompensated for something and I hit the control panel of the washer spinning the heli around and hitting everything in sight on the way down to the ground. So I had to go back to the LHS and get more blades and face all the guys there who said a gorilla could fly the CX2. :mad:

[mongoose]

New crash update....yesterday I crashed the CX2 into, you guessed it, THE WASHER! 1 upper blade, 1 lower blade and the inner shaft.....gone!!! It's a good thing I'm not intending on flying the T-Rex in the garage. Also I intend on have training gear on the T-Rex on the maiden flight.

[Helifino]

Also I intend on have training gear on the T-Rex on the maiden flight.

Very wise...me too! ;)

[Rappy1]

this makes crashing nitro and eletric helis nice and cheap to fix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1wyf-YX2Mg&mode=related&search=