Gary Morris

It's really easy to reset the pitch and tail rotors, here's the simple way. Remove the servo connector on channel 3 of your receiver. Set your left stick to center position with the trim also set to center. Center the rudder trim as well. Set your two knobs at 12:00 o'clock. Plug a 4 cell NiMH flight pack into the channel 3 on the Falcon receiver. Check the servo that's located just below the main shaft and be sure it's in a horizontal position, this will be Zero pitch. If the pitch is not at Zero loosen the wire connected to the servo arm under the main shaft and either slide the wire up or down until the blades are at Zero pitch. Check your blades by looking at them on one end with the flybar level, they should appear flat, that indicates they are at Zero pitch. Tighten up the small hex set screw once this is done on the servo arm below the main shaft. To check your rudder look at the servo arm, it should be pointing at a 90 degrees to the servo and your tail blades when sighting along the tail blades should appear flat just like the main blades, this would be Zero pitch on the tail rotors. If they aren't correct loosen the two screws that hold the servo to the boom and slowly slide it back and forth until they are at Zero pitch. Tighten them back up and double check for Zero pitch. If the servo arm isn't at 90 degrees to the servo you can either use your rudder trim or take the arm off and try to move it one notch until it's at 90 degrees. By doing this you should have equal movement of the servo with full left and full right stick input, note; it shouldn't bind in either direction. Also note that with a heading hold gyro you may not be able to move the servo fully and this is normal. To test for proper operation of your gyro you can hold the helicopter in your hands with the nose pointing to the left and the tail to the right. (Note: do this with the 4-Cell NimH flight pack and not plugged into your lipoly battery! Reason is if you accidentally move your throttle stick it could start up and injure you.) Now, slowly move the tail towards your body and watch the tail pitch slider, it should move away from you as you pull the tail towards your body, if it does this the gyro is working correctly. If you push the tail away from you the tail pitch slider should move towards you. I hope this all makes sense, if not let me know.

Gary