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ORIGINAL: Ddaddy

Fellow Blatherer's,


How many of you have Phoenix?  What do you think about an online ''Honorary RB Blathering Heli Flying Event''? I can get it set up, let's say tentative this Saturday say 2am UTC?  I'll pass on more details in the next couple days.  Please let me know your favorite site.  I'll surprize you with weatehr conditions ;  )

Cheers,
Ken

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ORIGINAL: Kozzy_98

Heya guys!

Went to the hobbyshop which is run by snobs who look down on you if you have anything thats not Traxxas/HorizonH/Align. Luckily they have lots of CF tubing!!

(SNIP)

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ORIGINAL: rikybob

@ Menm - Yah, My smaller LHS is catering to Traxxis and the like. I think that is actually where they make all the money. Heli's are a side job and since the owners son is a pilot, helis' are still big business, but not as much as those crawlers.


@ All - Had a really nice time at the field and once again, more BSing than flying. There is an interesting faction of fellas who just show up and kinda sit there. They have the latest and greatest but kinda, don't fly! I flew my 500 the most today and have fallen in love with it. I really would like a 550 size or perhaps a 600 in the future but the 500 is really awesome!

I think I killed my tail motor on the MCP X and will replace same today and my HK FBL unit is literally coming apart and I will re glue with "heli glue".

Other than that NO crashes and I am going out TWICE next week and fly!

All the best!

b

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ORIGINAL: ingleburn

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ORIGINAL: rikybob

@ Menm - Yah, My smaller LHS is catering to Traxxis and the like. I think that is actually where they make all the money. Heli's are a side job and since the owners son is a pilot, helis' are still big business, but not as much as those crawlers.


@ All - Had a really nice time at the field and once again, more BSing than flying. There is an interesting faction of fellas who just show up and kinda sit there. They have the latest and greatest but kinda, don't fly! I flew my 500 the most today and have fallen in love with it. I really would like a 550 size or perhaps a 600 in the future but the 500 is really awesome!

I think I killed my tail motor on the MCP X and will replace same today and my HK FBL unit is literally coming apart and I will re glue with ''heli glue''.

Other than that NO crashes and I am going out TWICE next week and fly!

All the best!

b

What a difference a week makes. Last week the 500 was on the market and you were looking at the 130X.
Now your looking at a 600. Glad the club is working out and dont you just hate the show offs that sit there and gloat about their stuff.
I wonder if they can actually fly or just have more money than sense.

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ORIGINAL: rikybob

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ORIGINAL: ingleburn

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ORIGINAL: rikybob

@ Menm - Yah, My smaller LHS is catering to Traxxis and the like. I think that is actually where they make all the money. Heli's are a side job and since the owners son is a pilot, helis' are still big business, but not as much as those crawlers.


@ All - Had a really nice time at the field and once again, more BSing than flying. There is an interesting faction of fellas who just show up and kinda sit there. They have the latest and greatest but kinda, don't fly! I flew my 500 the most today and have fallen in love with it. I really would like a 550 size or perhaps a 600 in the future but the 500 is really awesome!

I think I killed my tail motor on the MCP X and will replace same today and my HK FBL unit is literally coming apart and I will re glue with ''heli glue''.

Other than that NO crashes and I am going out TWICE next week and fly!

All the best!

b

What a difference a week makes. Last week the 500 was on the market and you were looking at the 130X.
Now your looking at a 600. Glad the club is working out and dont you just hate the show offs that sit there and gloat about their stuff.
I wonder if they can actually fly or just have more money than sense.

Yah, I have to admit, I knew that if I wanted to mix it up a bitt I need to do SOMETHING and getting out of my front yard was the TRICK!

RE: "Social club". Some just come out and have "hanger queens" that they just leave on the bench and fly one pack in the morning. Nice enough folks but that's almost egregious to let a 2K bird just sit there! The "word is" is that Goblin's don't like to hit the ground well. It's a 300USD fix!

Really enjoying the wide open expanses to fly in and the camaraderie of the folks! Funny thing, on a week day morning as long as Patrick is elsewhere I'm a FREAKIN' ROCKSTAR with my massive skillz!

The larger the heli the easier it is to fly, bar none! I'm going to keep my eyes open for a used 600 if it falls in my price range!

b

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ORIGINAL: rikybob


Yah, I have to admit, I knew that if I wanted to mix it up a bitt I need to do SOMETHING and getting out of my front yard was the TRICK!

RE: "Social club". Some just come out and have "hanger queens" that they just leave on the bench and fly one pack in the morning. Nice enough folks but that's almost egregious to let a 2K bird just sit there! The "word is" is that Goblin's don't like to hit the ground well. It's a 300USD fix!

Really enjoying the wide open expanses to fly in and the camaraderie of the folks! Funny thing, on a week day morning as long as Patrick is elsewhere I'm a FREAKIN' ROCKSTAR with my massive skillz!

The larger the heli the easier it is to fly, bar none! I'm going to keep my eyes open for a used 600 if it falls in my price range!

b

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ORIGINAL: Ddaddy

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ORIGINAL: rikybob

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ORIGINAL: ingleburn

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ORIGINAL: rikybob

@ Menm - Yah, My smaller LHS is catering to Traxxis and the like. I think that is actually where they make all the money. Heli's are a side job and since the owners son is a pilot, helis' are still big business, but not as much as those crawlers.


@ All - Had a really nice time at the field and once again, more BSing than flying. There is an interesting faction of fellas who just show up and kinda sit there. They have the latest and greatest but kinda, don't fly! I flew my 500 the most today and have fallen in love with it. I really would like a 550 size or perhaps a 600 in the future but the 500 is really awesome!

I think I killed my tail motor on the MCP X and will replace same today and my HK FBL unit is literally coming apart and I will re glue with ''heli glue''.

Other than that NO crashes and I am going out TWICE next week and fly!

All the best!

b

What a difference a week makes. Last week the 500 was on the market and you were looking at the 130X.
Now your looking at a 600. Glad the club is working out and dont you just hate the show offs that sit there and gloat about their stuff.
I wonder if they can actually fly or just have more money than sense.

Yah, I have to admit, I knew that if I wanted to mix it up a bitt I need to do SOMETHING and getting out of my front yard was the TRICK!

RE: "Social club". Some just come out and have "hanger queens" that they just leave on the bench and fly one pack in the morning. Nice enough folks but that's almost egregious to let a 2K bird just sit there! The "word is" is that Goblin's don't like to hit the ground well. It's a 300USD fix!

Really enjoying the wide open expanses to fly in and the camaraderie of the folks! Funny thing, on a week day morning as long as Patrick is elsewhere I'm a FREAKIN' ROCKSTAR with my massive skillz!

The larger the heli the easier it is to fly, bar none! I'm going to keep my eyes open for a used 600 if it falls in my price range!

b

BAH!  700 OR NOTHING!

Happy for you buddy!
Ken

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ORIGINAL: ahamay

I think mnem has put the align servo curse on me

Flight number 90 this morning on Tarot 450 with DS410m's and it starts behaving wierd in the air.  Managed to land it and the ELE servo has gone at twitchy and jittering.  Pulled it apart and the gears are all ok.  I think the potentiometer is toast.  The other two seems to be fine it's just this one.  They have done 90 five and a half minute flights, no 3d but some hard fanging around.

Not sure if I should replace all of them with something else or try and source a 410m from somewhere.  All the local shops don't have them anymore over the ds415's.

Found this clip of exactly what it's doing....

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ORIGINAL: mnemennth

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ORIGINAL: Kozzy_98

Heya guys!

Went to the hobbyshop which is run by snobs who look down on you if you have anything thats not Traxxas/HorizonH/Align. Luckily they have lots of CF tubing!!

(SNIP)

I wish I had a LHS that actually STOCKED the Align parts; even if I go across town to the HobbyTown, their stock of ANY 450-class parts is lame. All they want to sell you is RTFs and TRAXXAS. When I was racing, TRAXXAS was the cheapo brand you got into when you started off; you buy their cheap kit, then, cuz everything is cheap-@$$ plastic, you spend 3x as much again upgrading piece by piece to decent hardware. Their marketing strategy hasn't changed in the last 20 years; but their position in the market sure has. Nowadays you say names like Kyosho, Losi & Associated & all you get is a look like a tree full of owls. And the worst part is, half the "experienced techs" behind the counter are just snot-nosed kids who don't even realize what a POS their product really is, they just take it for granted that this is the way you do business.


mnem
*Snuffles off, muttering about idiot kids and their penchant for being branded like cattle*

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ORIGINAL: Ddaddy

The Phoenix server is up!

pw = brian 

Phoenix Brian Blathering report

Well all I can say is Ingleburn, Jonesy and I had a BLAST!

We did most of our blathering about Brian (who wasn't there...out camping or something...but we didn't say anything bad ) and Jonesy since he didn't have a mic!

Don't tell Jonsey but we were kind of admiring his skills, hence why we had to talk about him even more. Umm, Ingleburn, remind me to not alow gassers... too noisy! hehe

It was great talking and flying with friends literally half way around the world.  And since it was just us colonists (and prisoners), we came up with a diabolical plan to overthrow the evil over taxing pursecuting Europeans (don't tell Simon)!

We also learned in spectate you can watch the sticks on the person being spectated, very useful learning tool.

We also played 2 rounds of 3 minutes ballon popping.  Ingleburn beat me both times (I think he cheated!)

And before we knew it, two and a half hours had gone by!  We commented that it only seemed like a few minutes!  Hope you got to the football game on time Ingleburn.

Now that the inaugural event is complete, I’ll work on better scheduling for the next one.

Cheers Everyone,

Ken

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ORIGINAL: Ddaddy

Phoenix Brian Blathering report

Well all I can say is Ingleburn, Jonesy and I had a BLAST!

We did most of our blathering about Brian (who wasn't there...out camping or something...but we didn't say anything bad ) and Jonesy since he didn't have a mic!

Don't tell Jonsey but we were kind of admiring his skills, hence why we had to talk about him even more. Umm, Ingleburn, remind me to not alow gassers... too noisy! hehe

It was great talking and flying with friends literally half way around the world.  And since it was just us colonists (and prisoners), we came up with a diabolical plan to overthrow the evil over taxing pursecuting Europeans (don't tell Simon)!

We also learned in spectate you can watch the sticks on the person being spectated, very useful learning tool.

We also played 2 rounds of 3 minutes ballon popping.  Ingleburn beat me both times (I think he cheated!)

And before we knew it, two and a half hours had gone by!  We commented that it only seemed like a few minutes!  Hope you got to the football game on time Ingleburn.

Now that the inaugural event is complete, I’ll work on better scheduling for the next one.

Cheers Everyone,

Ken

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ORIGINAL: ingleburn

Well yesterdays sim time did me the world of good.

went out this morning and had a great time flying a lot smoother and getting further away.

The dreaded right turn curse returned though when I started flying faster and you could hear the tail blades protesting.

Time to sit down and check everything over again but I did notice a bit of slop between one grip and the hub so for a start Im going to replace it with this. www.rc711.com/shop/metal-tail-holder-set-for-alztrex-450-sport-p-4558.html

Other than that might play around with the software and see if I can get it sorted out.

One other thing I just thought of was Im using these tail blades. www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__14935__450_Size_Heli_White_Plastic_Tail_Blade_pair_.html

Wonder if I should try a pair of the stock ones and see if it makes a difference.

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ORIGINAL: ahamay

Not sure if the gremlins are back.... I've been having trouble getting the forum to load up for the last 4 or 5 days.  Same problem as last time we started a new thread.  It loads up after a while if you go to the main site and then via forums, but not from the link in the new post email you get.  Anyone else ?

Jonesy