NEW TO THE HOBBY AND SITE

Hi all on here I'm very new to this Hobby and I am always asking random questions. My normal Ref person is Zaid as he has been helping me set my second hand Raptor 30, i have just bought a e-filte blade 130x and been practicing on the pheonix sim so hoping to get my head round it all so i can really enjot flying.

Hi Charles welcome to the forum.
You've bought a really fun heli there. There's quite a few on us here that fly them and there's a thread running at the moment about the 130x. Here's the link.

https://rdmfc.forumotion.co.uk/t3624-another-successful-afternoon#30179

If you need any help just ask away.



Danny.

Hi charles,Just noticed your post I pop in and out the forum. So a late welcome.

Rappy 30 is how me and my mate started 2 years ago, and did us really well. Also still got various bits lying around. So if ya need some thing zaids got my number..

Neil

Welcome to the forum Charlie, if you fancy coming to the indoor flying on Sat you are very welcome to come and its not too expensive its around £5, the more people there are, the cheaper it is. Also you get to meet some of the guys !

Will you need directions Zaidy?

Tim wrote:Will you need directions Zaidy?

LOL, you are funny

hi Zaid need any help in finding your way

Not happy thought i would be able to fly my little blade 130 but things went a little wrong now need to find out why it is constantly spinning as i power up !! grrrr

Guessing you might have damaged the tail motor ! Or one of the connections has become undone ! Bring it with you

More than likely the front bevel gear could be stripped. If it isn't and you have metal front gears then what usually happens is one of the rear gears (C or D) has stripped itself or rounded its centre on the torque tube.

A quick test is to hold the tail rotor and slowly turn the main gear by hand. If anything has stripped you should be able to turn the main gear without the tail turning.

If none of the above needs changing it may just be something in the transmitter settings that needs tweaking.



Danny.

Hi Charles and welcome aboard
Cant advise on your problem, as I am not a food mixer type of guy, but you are in safe hands with Danny, Neil and Zaidy, who are all very knowledgeable about these murder death kill machines
Good luck, and I hope the repairs are not too costly.

He had a crash, it's likley it's a tail issue

If ya find any broken bits. I've nearly got a complete set of standard spares. As mine all been metal upgraded. If ya need something pm me.

Neil

Neil wrote:If ya find any broken bits. I've nearly got a complete set of standard spares. As mine all been metal upgraded. If ya need something pm me.

Neil

Show off !!

Rear blade grip please Neil lol

Zaidy wrote:

Neil wrote:If ya find any broken bits. I've nearly got a complete set of standard spares. As mine all been metal upgraded. If ya need something pm me.

Neil

Show off !!

Not so much of a show off now. As just sorted a wobble on mine, reduced the gains on cyclic. And finally got it smooth, came in house to get another battery.. And the board has died

Rang HH and Sending it back to be fixed, but ive chopped the battery connection off to use a JST. So proberly voided the warrenty.

But did get to the field/swamp and hammered 5 tanks on the 600

Mark Barnes wrote:Rear blade grip please Neil lol

Just been to check, and this is where the nearly comes in. Can only find one broken one. Cant find the good one think thrown the wrong one away. Bugger

soz.

Neil wrote:

Zaidy wrote:

Neil wrote:If ya find any broken bits. I've nearly got a complete set of standard spares. As mine all been metal upgraded. If ya need something pm me.

Neil

Show off !!

Not so much of a show off now. As just sorted a wobble on mine, reduced the gains on cyclic. And finally got it smooth, came in house to get another battery.. And the board has died

Rang HH and Sending it back to be fixed, but ive chopped the battery connection off to use a JST. So proberly voided the warrenty.

But did get to the field/swamp and hammered 5 tanks on the 600

LOL, unlucky mate

It was great weather today, did you manage to park inside or outside the gate ?

Tim and myself went to the Orme for an hour or so at last min and had few good flights too with great lift :-) but I do miss not going to the field I think I have to get my helis ready again !!

Yep, just opened gate and drove in to left a little, didn't chance any more than that,just enough to let farmer passed if needed.

Had welly's on, lucky as a few deep puddles, didn't try anything stupid as if ya crashed you could submerge the whole heli in some of the them.

But really nice to get a proper toy flying. Very rusty though

Forgot to say, I didn't put down fence but thought would check when leaving and there is no battery in the box, don't know if anybody knows. Tried to ring rich as only number could think of.

The battery is away for charging. There's no cattle to worry about at present so its ok

Neil wrote:

Mark Barnes wrote:Rear blade grip please Neil lol

Just been to check, and this is where the nearly comes in. Can only find one broken one. Cant find the good one think thrown the wrong one away. Bugger

soz.

Indian giver

M

Hi neil im very new to the site and was wondering if you replaced the two gears that power the tail rotar (the large one in the main shaft and the small one on on the tail shaft) as i have shredded all the teath of mine on hitting some grass. Hope you dont think im being cheecky will give you a couple of quid for them as it save me waiting 4 days for mail order . naby thanks my mobile is 07789936726 .

Hi all i was stupid and tried to have a go at hovering my raptor on my own and it all has ended in tears I paniced and the heli came down little to hard and i think the main rotor must of hit the tail boom causeing a lot of damage. Should have her up and running by the weekend fingers CROSSED, but think i might have to get Zaid help me get the basics or if anyone is willing to spend a couple of hour to help me get the hovering thing in my head.

On a good note really had fun with my blade 130x but now once i have put a new tail fin and canopy on it going to practice normal flight, but it was brillient fun and cheap to repair.

Overall conclusion need to find more "PATIENCE"

Hi Charles, the best thing when learning is practice followed by more practice.
Practice tail in hovering as much as possible. Then once you can keep it in a locked in hover for a whole flight without thinking about what your thumbs are doing you're ready for the next step.
After this practice hovering with the tail at a slight angle, say 45 degrees so you start to see the heli from a slightly different angle. Do this looking at both sides and work a bit more on the weaker side.
I'm at the hospital a lot at the moment so I can't get to the field for a while but if you need any help let me know.
I'm at the indoor Saturdays so if you need anything just come right over.




Danny.