great another set of blades ruined!!

[carl]

doesnt matter how many times i try to set this df60# up it never gets any better just gets worse today i pulled up and it drifts to the left fast doesnt matter how much trim i put on plus if i put to much trim on it lent to far to the right hence the damaged blades got training gear on but makes no diferance pluss to add to injury the tail boom has moved inwards making the belt loose so the hely was spinning out of control didnt know why until i inspected it closer i cant adjust the tail boom at the moment cos my allen key has rounded itself so now it doesnt grip the bolt the winter is comming fast so not many flying time left! this walkera is breaking me!!! ive made my mind up now i think am just gonna save up for a trex 450 in the mean while buy a sim and just use that i feel like throwing the df60 in the bin! it should be called rtc (ready to crash) not rtf lol when i got it it arrived with no scews for the motor then i realised the main gear wheel isnt level then the grub screw worked loose on the rudder holder so that fell off lost the grub scew for it so ii had to order a new rudder shaft!!
sorry about the moaning but i needed t get all that of my chest lol i havnt had any luck with his hely feels like am banging my head against a wall!!

[BABY HUEY]

I feel your pain Carl
My 37 is kicking my ***, I want to shoot it!
But seriously the 60 is probably Walkeras most capable Heli but the 36 is I think the best for the general public as it is easier to setup and fly. In retrospect I wish that I had bypassed the whole fixed pitch thing in the first place because until I got my 36 I was ready to quit Helis period! But when I got the 36 trimmed out I found out that it wasn't me that was the problem it was the lousy tail motored, fixed pitch, 300 size heli that was unflyable in any condition.
Anyway sorry to vent when you are having problems that I haven't really helped with.LOL
Huey

[Dilbeck]

Bummer! Ive learned that its not only that the heli is well ballanced IE: the blades, the heli as a hole, the fly bar, the controler also, their are so many variables at that rotor speed that anything just 1 tick off will cause problems.The setup is more difficult than flying, If you get everything just right the heli will float (aprox 3 feet abouve ground to stop ground effects) without very much input. Dont get me wrong even in a com wind it will always drift to the left do to the tail rotor pushing to counter the main blades, it wont just set there and hover, but if everything is (perfect) it will almost do so. You will know when it is well balanced because when it starts to spool up their will be little or no vibration, Just like your celing fan in the house. The slower it goes the more wobbly the faster the least wobbly but the mor eratic!!

[carl]

yeah am gonna keep at it its like a love and hate relationship at the mo i spend a bit of time setting it up then test fly it still no good so try somthin else still no joy so i say to my self f#@k it cant be bottherd with it then its there looking at me so i pick it back up have another go at it just for it to f#@k me off so i loose my temper then and try ignore it, but it still manages to worm its way back in! lol sorry sound like am havin a love affair with me chopper! (hely that is lol) we should start a threat just on moaning about our helys it could be called "having problems with ur chopper? cant get it up? well come and talk about it share ur problems with the group" lol it could be good counciling lol

[carl]

Originally Posted by BABY HUEY

I feel your pain Carl
My 37 is kicking my ***, I want to shoot it!
But seriously the 60 is probably Walkeras most capable Heli but the 36 is I think the best for the general public as it is easier to setup and fly. In retrospect I wish that I had bypassed the whole fixed pitch thing in the first place because until I got my 36 I was ready to quit Helis period! But when I got the 36 trimmed out I found out that it wasn't me that was the problem it was the lousy tail motored, fixed pitch, 300 size heli that was unflyable in any condition.
Anyway sorry to vent when you are having problems that I haven't really helped with.LOL
Huey

yeah i had a 2 channel fixed pitch cant even call it a helly up let the wind take it land it trek 100 meters to pick it pack up walk 100 meters back up wind and start again i got bord of that in about 10 mins then bought a beginners plane a month ago havnt even flew it yet lol then saw these better helys so i bought a walkera even through i read al the bad fibes about them but still am glad i got it cos its gettin me to try to learn how to set it up if i got a better one wich was perfect then i wouldnt of learnt until a crash

[BABY HUEY]

Hey I forgot to mention that helidirect sells a great set of "indistructable" main blades for six bucks usd that I have found to be indespensable for setting up Helis.
I have a set on my 36 that has survived a dozen or more crashes and are still going strong!
They are also heavier at the tips so they auto like crazy and that seems to help keep the blades from stopping too suddenly when they hit the ground wich seems to keep head damage to a minimum.
Huey

[carl]

ill have to have a look at them i need somthin like them i cant keep paying for blades all the time its becoming a money pit already

[carl]

yet again ive gone through another set of blades and also damaged one of the servos am heart is broke it was a stupid crash aswel the hely was about 1 inch of the floor when it drifted back slowly and for some reason i froze and watched the tail hit a peice of wood in my garden and fliped the hely to one side gutted i was gonna fly it in a club his weekend now i cant still waitin on a sim ive ordered i cant wait till it comes am sick of ruining blades and my hely well enough of my ranting just needed to let it out