Practice makes perfect and a lot of baby steps.
The weather finely got nice and I had the heli & camera up at a construction site. After the video flight I took some pictures with the same camera to see how they would turn out, I figured the remote (camera remote) was not working right so I aborted the flight and took the camera mount off.
Had a good flight and landed for fuel. Took off and flew around and then leveled off at around 20 feet and was sort of in a hover with the left fuse facing me. All of a sudden it went full negative pitch and pancaked into the ground! I'm holding the TX and thinking this can't be happening!!!!!!!!!!
Well during the post mortum I found the swash plate was missing a long ball where the long pushrod was missing with the pushrod. I remember going through all the bolts, set screws, ball's etc checking if any were lose. Go figure!
The damage is real bad.. The upper frames are broken at the tail boom, one glass blade is toast, carbon tail rotors toast, drive shaft & tail boom, tail feathers, flybar and feathering shaft, tail gearbox, tail boom, main gear at the bottom of the main shaft and the missing parts (long arm ball and pushrod) Total $253.89 canadian plus shipping and taxes!
It's a miracle I took the camera off! (Wipes forhead)
Question... with carrying a payload of around 4 + lbs atribute to a failure like this? I need advice. thank you
Jim
Jim