Orange Landing Pads
01-16-2009, 03:38 AM
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Orange Landing Pads
I keep seeing these orange pads that are attached to the landing gear of helis.
Can someone tell me where you get them.they look like they work quite well
Here is a clip that shows someone useing them on a test stand
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/113957...ining_stand_p/
Can someone tell me where you get them.they look like they work quite well
Here is a clip that shows someone useing them on a test stand
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/113957...ining_stand_p/
01-16-2009, 11:24 AM
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RE: Orange Landing Pads
i think what you're talking about is the swimming pool noodles that people cut and attach to the skids for orientation purposes. just head over to the local pool supply store.
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RE: Orange Landing Pads
Hi
It looks to me like he is using floats for water use or land on ground, I have put together the training gear that comes with my Blade CP pro with some advise from another post I did for making my training gear work with out the piece that the rods go into. I saw the video you posted and the training gear I have are a lot better then those floats because of the larger spread of my training gear and this helps me protect the main blades from striking the ground and if I am having a problem I just cut the throttle and my training gear set my helicoptor down with out any damage.
The floats in the video are not spaced out to help in a low level emergency landing when learning or allow it to slide around some that happens during training plus the flats I saw rase the center of gravity and would not be good for training in fact may be worse because of this. The trainging gear needs to make a larger landing surface that I need to train.
I would try to get training gear like mine. I had to make a centre piece for mine but as you see in the picture tha large bace of landing aera I have to avoid what already would have cost me several main rotor blades by now LOL
Good Luck RJ
It looks to me like he is using floats for water use or land on ground, I have put together the training gear that comes with my Blade CP pro with some advise from another post I did for making my training gear work with out the piece that the rods go into. I saw the video you posted and the training gear I have are a lot better then those floats because of the larger spread of my training gear and this helps me protect the main blades from striking the ground and if I am having a problem I just cut the throttle and my training gear set my helicoptor down with out any damage.
The floats in the video are not spaced out to help in a low level emergency landing when learning or allow it to slide around some that happens during training plus the flats I saw rase the center of gravity and would not be good for training in fact may be worse because of this. The trainging gear needs to make a larger landing surface that I need to train.
I would try to get training gear like mine. I had to make a centre piece for mine but as you see in the picture tha large bace of landing aera I have to avoid what already would have cost me several main rotor blades by now LOL
Good Luck RJ
