trainrider06
Active Member
had about an hours time to kill before I left for work today....weather was so nice.....hey why not get a couple of birds out for a quick buzz up and down the street in front of my house....
NOT a good idea!
First off two things: don't be in a hurry!
Secondly do not fly up and down a street in suburbia!
Oh yeah thirdly, if you fly 2 heli's and they just ain't seeming to fly right....time to quit!
Decided to take the 250, and both SR's up for a couple of Shake down runs...
Only had less than an hour, but what the hell, I'll just run em back and forth down the street...
it's a neighborhood and street isn't busy so what the hell....
First up, 250....it's wild, all over the place keeps wanting to drift sideways on me...constant right
stick on cyclic is needed....don't understand the last time she was smooth....
Oh well shut her down look at it later....
Next: Blade SR, controlled by DX6i, tail drift....constant rudder input right to hold the tail....WTF?
Bring her in shut her down.....
Next: Blade SR, stock radio, and heli.....Sweeet! she's flying so nice....buzz her down the street about 10 feet off the ground, back and forth, she's flying so good!
At the end of my flight, I run her one more time down the street, turn around start coming back....drop her low, about 3 feet off the ground.....to my left I hear it....car coming....
Uh oh, am at the point where a tree overhangs street....uh oh!!!!
Car, tree, car tree.....car....ain't slowing....I can't get much altitude because of tree...uh oh....car....
I veer off too low, ground rises, am idol up, car passes...too late...catch embankment, panic veer left back toward street.....chop chop chop blades catching curb, too late......
NOT a good idea!
First off two things: don't be in a hurry!
Secondly do not fly up and down a street in suburbia!
Oh yeah thirdly, if you fly 2 heli's and they just ain't seeming to fly right....time to quit!
Decided to take the 250, and both SR's up for a couple of Shake down runs...
Only had less than an hour, but what the hell, I'll just run em back and forth down the street...
it's a neighborhood and street isn't busy so what the hell....
First up, 250....it's wild, all over the place keeps wanting to drift sideways on me...constant right
stick on cyclic is needed....don't understand the last time she was smooth....
Oh well shut her down look at it later....
Next: Blade SR, controlled by DX6i, tail drift....constant rudder input right to hold the tail....WTF?
Bring her in shut her down.....
Next: Blade SR, stock radio, and heli.....Sweeet! she's flying so nice....buzz her down the street about 10 feet off the ground, back and forth, she's flying so good!
At the end of my flight, I run her one more time down the street, turn around start coming back....drop her low, about 3 feet off the ground.....to my left I hear it....car coming....
Uh oh, am at the point where a tree overhangs street....uh oh!!!!
Car, tree, car tree.....car....ain't slowing....I can't get much altitude because of tree...uh oh....car....
I veer off too low, ground rises, am idol up, car passes...too late...catch embankment, panic veer left back toward street.....chop chop chop blades catching curb, too late......
