I was flying one of my 450 helis, and it was pretty shaky. It has a gyro and im assuming thats what it is. Any help would be appreciated. I don’t know if i need to reprogram it, or what lol. Im not too new into the hobby, but cant figure this thing out. Thanks!

Just picked up 5 Copter X 4s helis, a blade 200, and align trex 470L and a little wl toys k110 for $800!

Having some trouble fining the source of vibration on my M1. I have some tail wag and it's overheating the tail motor.

I've changed the main shaft, feathering shaft, main and tail blades. I've checked the frame for cracks. Double checked the schematics to ensure every single screw, nut, and washer is exactly where it's supposed to be. Checked ESC solder points to the best of my ability.

I'm stumped, I feel like I've replaced everything that would cause vibration. What else can I look at?

Thanks for the help.

We are building a helicopter using a purchased helicopter swashplate and transmission system. We use a Pixhawk Cube Orange as the autopilot. To power the helicopter, we use an OS55 nitro engine. We set everything up and did a test flight last week, but it did not go as planned. The helicopter initially went nose up, and even though we tried to level it by giving max pitch via the remote, it had no effect.

I have several questions about the failed flight. When we adjusted the cyclic pitch angle, we did it by setting the collective to zero. When the collective is at zero, we set the max cyclic blade angle to 7 degrees. However, when we maxed the collective and cyclic, the blade angle reached 16 degrees.

When we examined the logs, we saw that the helicopter took off when the throttle was really high, and we gave max pitch because the helicopter flew backward. It might have happened that when the blade angle reached 16 degrees, it got into the stall zone, causing the helicopter to go further backward because when pitch is maxed the thrust in the back of the rotor disk is effected.

We are wondering if there is a better way to adjust our cyclic angles. I would love to share more details about our project and videos of the flight if further information is needed.

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We are wondering if there is a better way to adjust our cyclic angles. I would love to share more details about our project and videos of the flight if further information is needed.

Is it possible to use two heli flybarless heads to make a Chinook and use a body from something likenthose double bladed rc Chinook from Alibaba and Amazon? Just curious what it would take to do something of this scale.

did u fly it?

Can somebody help me to bind my radiomaster tx16s to an eachine e180 heli? It says to use sfhss but thats not showing in my radio, I updated my internal module to latest version but still nothing, this is my first heli so any inputs would be much appreciated thanks

Quick question for anyone. I have a Blade MCPs (BNF) that I fly with a Taranis X9D Plus (with a multi-protocol module). Flies just fine. This year at the IRCHA Jamboree, I won the raffle that Horizon Hobby was holding for the Spektrum IX20SE. Amazing radio, it keeps blowing me away! I downloaded the MCPs setup file from the google drive that is linked on Spektrum’s web page and bound my heli to it. Almost no work at all! The problem (and the root of my question) is that now, in safe mode, it needs almost 90% throttle to even get airborne and 100% to do any climbing at all, and even then it’s slow as all get out. It’s got no punch-out. It’s the same story in Idle Up 1 and 2. Everything works as it should, except the full range of throttle. It’s almost as if the heli is expecting the stick to go higher than it is going. I bound it back up to the Taranis to see if it was a problem with the heli, but it worked just fine, no problems at all. I did a stick calibration on the IX20SE and tried again, still no punch-out. So my question is this, what am I missing, what have I done wrong? Is there a calibration mode on the MCPs that I can tell it the full range of my sticks? Can I go into the IX20 somewhere and make it send 125% throttle? Any and all advice is much appreciated!

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Also, yeah yeah. I know. Sometimes it’s absolutely necessary to kill a fly with a sledgehammer lol.

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Edit: solved. I was a dummy. I moved the end points on the pitch to -150 and 150 and end point on throttle high to 150. I was looking for "end point" because I'm used to OpenTx. Spektrum calls it "travel" and it's tucked away nicely under a couple of menu options that I didn't look under haha.

I have an old Hirobo GPH346 I built from a kit back in 1996. I would like to explore the feasibility of converting it to electric. From my earlier inquiries it seems I would need an appropriate size motor, ESC, a big-a$$ed battery pack and some kind of custom motor mount.

The only problem is the mount. Who does such things? I haven't the faintest idea who in the industry to contact and am hoping for ideas.

A few months ago, I crashed my XK110 in a horrible way where I was trying to fly inverted over concrete but slammed it hard. I broke the rotor head and so I bought a new, metal instead of plastic to replace it.

After installing the servo arms correctly, I tried to fly it but the directional pitch is so damn bad. It won't even tilt enough at the highest setting. I ignored the issue until now.

The weather is becoming nice to fly, and I want to go back to flying. Any bit of help is highly appreciated.