Bell 206 out of retirement!
OK so here's the story.... Built this model a while back and had 5 flights on it and all was very nice. It flew great right out of the gate! no issues. Then after about two years of sitting I cranked it back up and out of the blue it had no rudder authority at all and all it did was want to spin on the ground very fast. Before flying it i went through everything in the radio and with the BeastX and made sure of all the setting were the same as it was before it's last flight two years ago. It was never touched during this two year span.
Well after two days of grief why it's changed on me I decided to start over. Took it apart and started from square one going through all the linkages, pitches, gyro setting and so on. It took three days to get it back to where it is now. In this clip it's out of trim but it's close. I remember the placement of the batteries and yes I did a final balance of the bird with the skids horizontal.
In this video I'm flying heading hold but not sure if I was flying it before in Rate mode or Normal mode. I'm flying a Futaba T6K with the 3006Rx which is the same as before and all was beautiful.
Now it flies like it never flew before and that has got me baffled.
I was wondering if the heli sits that long then doe's the BeastX and Tx loose it's information for the setting I had before?? I mean I got it to fly now and I can get it trimmed out to fly smooth again like before but when I cranked it up after those two years and couldn't get the tail to work right that just blew my mind! I was like WTF is going on!!!. anyway.... this battery may also be bad as this is why I kept it close. I had 23.5 volts on it and was expecting around at least 5 minutes but didn't get anywhere close to that as you can hear it start to die out in the clip.
Also my gyro is set at +40% AVC but I was wondering about using Rate Mode. Of course all of my setting were on Rate mode during the setup for setting the rudder limits in menu E on the BeastX so that's fine. I'm thinking to go back into the Parameter settings and reset those as well. Right now it's just the default factory settings.
Anyway... the first clip is from two years ago and now this last clip is from this evening. So as you can see, I have more work to do. I think I'll get a couple of new batteries too. I currently use PULSE 5000 6s at 35c and a LiFe 6.2 2s for the radio gear. The 5000 is only powering the motor.
The kit is the Trex 550X Dominator that came with all the servos (820's and 825 Tail) BeastX v5.0 and the Motor (BL730MX 960KV 4230) and C.Y. 700 Rotor blades so nothing as far as hardware has changed since it first flew but again it didn't want to fly at all when I cranked it back up after it was sitting.... puzzled. I was actually afraid to fly it not knowing what it might do after the tail wasn't co-operating with me.
Anyway.... let me know your thoughts and any info about the gyro setting would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance and hope all of you are doing well. Peace!.
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First clip when she was flying beautiful right out the gate:
Clip from today after two years of sitting and no changes what so ever!:
Well after two days of grief why it's changed on me I decided to start over. Took it apart and started from square one going through all the linkages, pitches, gyro setting and so on. It took three days to get it back to where it is now. In this clip it's out of trim but it's close. I remember the placement of the batteries and yes I did a final balance of the bird with the skids horizontal.
In this video I'm flying heading hold but not sure if I was flying it before in Rate mode or Normal mode. I'm flying a Futaba T6K with the 3006Rx which is the same as before and all was beautiful.
Now it flies like it never flew before and that has got me baffled.
I was wondering if the heli sits that long then doe's the BeastX and Tx loose it's information for the setting I had before?? I mean I got it to fly now and I can get it trimmed out to fly smooth again like before but when I cranked it up after those two years and couldn't get the tail to work right that just blew my mind! I was like WTF is going on!!!. anyway.... this battery may also be bad as this is why I kept it close. I had 23.5 volts on it and was expecting around at least 5 minutes but didn't get anywhere close to that as you can hear it start to die out in the clip.
Also my gyro is set at +40% AVC but I was wondering about using Rate Mode. Of course all of my setting were on Rate mode during the setup for setting the rudder limits in menu E on the BeastX so that's fine. I'm thinking to go back into the Parameter settings and reset those as well. Right now it's just the default factory settings.
Anyway... the first clip is from two years ago and now this last clip is from this evening. So as you can see, I have more work to do. I think I'll get a couple of new batteries too. I currently use PULSE 5000 6s at 35c and a LiFe 6.2 2s for the radio gear. The 5000 is only powering the motor.
The kit is the Trex 550X Dominator that came with all the servos (820's and 825 Tail) BeastX v5.0 and the Motor (BL730MX 960KV 4230) and C.Y. 700 Rotor blades so nothing as far as hardware has changed since it first flew but again it didn't want to fly at all when I cranked it back up after it was sitting.... puzzled. I was actually afraid to fly it not knowing what it might do after the tail wasn't co-operating with me.
Anyway.... let me know your thoughts and any info about the gyro setting would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance and hope all of you are doing well. Peace!.
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First clip when she was flying beautiful right out the gate:
Clip from today after two years of sitting and no changes what so ever!:
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