Tracking the Blades

Tracking is VITAL to keeping vibration down, and making the helicopter maintain stability.

When tracking the blades, NEVER remove pitch to lower the high blade.
Always increase pitch on the low blade.

The reason for this is simple. If you lower pitch on the high blade you will be setting that blade to negative pitch. This will cause unwanted roll during high speed forward flight maneuvers, and the heli will also want to roll out of inverted maneuvers. It will also cause ground vibrations if you land while in idle-up mode.

Increase pitch on the low blade by adjusting the linkage from the rotor head frame to the blade grips.

It is easiest to do this if the blades have a stripe of different colors on each blade. The blades come with a red and black tape stripe on the blades. Simply look for which color is low while the blades are spinning.

The pictures below show properly tracking blades, and improperly tracked blades.