Sunday, January 31, 2010

I've been flying the FP and become quite good and manoeuvring around the rooms. Still can't go tail out yet. Need a really big room to practise that. So today I replaced the tail assembly. Mostly because I wanted to see the difference between the stock tail motor and the high-performance one. Putting it together was a pain. I need 3 year/old sized fingers to get everything done. But after about 1 hour managed to get everything in place. Then took it up for a spin. The one thing I noticed is the tail is much more solid. It doesn't have the play like the old one. Which makes the helicopter feel more stable. However, I am noticing a fish tail effect. I'll have to wait for my batteries to charge so I can play some more.

Also while I had the helicopter apart I noticed the linkage between the swash-plate and the servo was loose. Which explained the consent lean to the right. At the hobby store he kept telling me it was normal. Obvously it wasn't, it was just not aligned at the factory correctly.