My new RC helicopter!!!!

[Penunggu]

its good for beginners to have a feeling of flight controls u can view the picture at acehobby website. http://www.acehobby.com.sg/catalog/index.php

[Artosoft]

Hi,

Today I just got my dynam hughes 300 fp RC .

Regards,
Arto.

[pck]

Hi,

Today I just got my dynam hughes 300 fp RC .

Regards,
Arto.

Hey, i got the same heli too (from sky hobbies?). Get yourself some lipo batteries. Flies better and longer.

[Artosoft]

Hey, i got the same heli too (from sky hobbies?). Get yourself some lipo batteries. Flies better and longer.

Sky hobbiyes. I like hughes 300, looks classic. Not flying yet, rainy day. Do you manage to hover?

Regards,
Arto.

[pck]

Sky hobbiyes. I like hughes 300, looks classic. Not flying yet, rainy day. Do you manage to hover?

Regards,
Arto.

Oh yes, I am hovering it just fine now. It was tough in the beginning and i almost gave up at one time but luckily i didn't and with enough practice (and damage repair cost ), i managed to hover it after about a month later. Now, i am totaly addicted to flying helis!

[Artosoft]

Oh yes, I am hovering it just fine now. It was tough in the beginning and i almost gave up at one time but luckily i didn't and with enough practice (and damage repair cost ), i managed to hover it after about a month later. Now, i am totaly addicted to flying helis!

Wow, what a wonderful experience to fly a heli, even only RC .

Do you trim fine tune set on your transmitter? Can you explain a bit how finally you manage it to fly? Do you use trainer skid? In grass land pad or in non-grass land pad?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Arto

[pck]

Wow, what a wonderful experience to fly a heli, even only RC .

Do you trim fine tune set on your transmitter? Can you explain a bit how finally you manage it to fly? Do you use trainer skid? In grass land pad or in non-grass land pad?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Arto

yes, fine tune is definitely necessary. First up, your mechanical setup must be correct. Make sure that your heli is balanced. Hold the heli by the fly-bar (i hope you know what this is ) with the battery in the holder and see if the heli is balanced. If the head is tilting downwards, move the battery backwards towards the tail. Do this until the heli is balanced. An unbalanced heli required a lot of effort to hover.

Now, check your fly-bar paddles. Make sure they are both horizontal and pointing in the right direction.

Next, is gyro setup. Put your TX trims to center position, put heli on ground, and throttle up a little (not hover). Check the heli tail (rudder). If heli is spinning towards one direction, you need to adjust the 'propo' sensentivity on the 3-in-1. (a little pot-hole). I can't remember which direction you should turn it but just try turning one direction about one-quarter of the way. If it spins even more, then you should turn the propo the other way. REMEMBER TO DISCONNECT HELI BATTERY AND RECONNECT BATTERY FOR CHANGES TO BE IN EFFECT EACH TIME YOU MADE THE ADJUSTMENTS. You should do this until you tail stays in one place when you throttle up.

When you have done this, you can try to hover and see if the tails is holding it's position when you are hovering. If it has tendency to turn to one direction, adjust the 'gain' sensentivity on the 3-in-1 (the other pot hole). Adjust this until the tail is just slightly wagging (back-and-forth motion) while hovering. (Remember to power off and on your heli with each adjustment)

When you learn to hover, always start with the tail of the heli pointing towards you (i.e nose canopy away from you) before take off and during hovering. Don't bother turning the heli sideways until you can effectively hover continuously in one place for a few battery packs. Also, hover just a little above 1 - 1.5 meters first. Damages are minimal at lower attitude. But hovering too low to the ground causes "ground-effect" and your heli will tend to drift too much. Use your own judgement.

I strongly recommend using training kit (ping-pong balls) when you are learining. The skids are rather weak and they tend to break during hard landing. The training kit prevents heli from landing on it's side breaking the blades.

One important note is if you crash, remember to THROTTLE DOWN immediately when your heli hits the ground. Otherwise, your 3-in-1 controller is certainly going to burn out due to the blades unable to turn. Most beginners including myself tends to cut throttle once we sense something is wrong. This is actually not a good habit but understandable. Best way is try to remain calm and correct mistakes instead of cutting throttle. Not easy but not impossible either.

Last advice is mind-set preparation: Crash is unavoidable, but you learn with each crash. You must be mentally prepared to accept crashes, and repair damages. ($$$). Don't feel frustrated. Keep trying and take short breaks to reflect on your mistakes and you will definitely succeed! And i can guarantee that the feeling is beyong description once you see your heli hovering when you finally did it! And that's when the addiction kicks in!

[Artosoft]

Thanks PCK!

What a nice you trying to explain in simple word for me, newbie .

Thanks, it is really help me to understand more on how to setup the heli. I believe too that setup is as important as we need to control the heli.

I appreciate that .

Regards,
Arto.

[jhyeo900]

yes, fine tune is definitely necessary. First up, your mechanical setup must be correct. Make sure that your heli is balanced. Hold the heli by the fly-bar (i hope you know what this is ) with the battery in the holder and see if the heli is balanced. If the head is tilting downwards, move the battery backwards towards the tail. Do this until the heli is balanced. An unbalanced heli required a lot of effort to hover.

Now, check your fly-bar paddles. Make sure they are both horizontal and pointing in the right direction.

Next, is gyro setup. Put your TX trims to center position, put heli on ground, and throttle up a little (not hover). Check the heli tail (rudder). If heli is spinning towards one direction, you need to adjust the 'propo' sensentivity on the 3-in-1. (a little pot-hole). I can't remember which direction you should turn it but just try turning one direction about one-quarter of the way. If it spins even more, then you should turn the propo the other way. REMEMBER TO DISCONNECT HELI BATTERY AND RECONNECT BATTERY FOR CHANGES TO BE IN EFFECT EACH TIME YOU MADE THE ADJUSTMENTS. You should do this until you tail stays in one place when you throttle up.

When you have done this, you can try to hover and see if the tails is holding it's position when you are hovering. If it has tendency to turn to one direction, adjust the 'gain' sensentivity on the 3-in-1 (the other pot hole). Adjust this until the tail is just slightly wagging (back-and-forth motion) while hovering. (Remember to power off and on your heli with each adjustment)

When you learn to hover, always start with the tail of the heli pointing towards you (i.e nose canopy away from you) before take off and during hovering. Don't bother turning the heli sideways until you can effectively hover continuously in one place for a few battery packs. Also, hover just a little above 1 - 1.5 meters first. Damages are minimal at lower attitude. But hovering too low to the ground causes "ground-effect" and your heli will tend to drift too much. Use your own judgement.

I strongly recommend using training kit (ping-pong balls) when you are learining. The skids are rather weak and they tend to break during hard landing. The training kit prevents heli from landing on it's side breaking the blades.

One important note is if you crash, remember to THROTTLE DOWN immediately when your heli hits the ground. Otherwise, your 3-in-1 controller is certainly going to burn out due to the blades unable to turn. Most beginners including myself tends to cut throttle once we sense something is wrong. This is actually not a good habit but understandable. Best way is try to remain calm and correct mistakes instead of cutting throttle. Not easy but not impossible either.

Last advice is mind-set preparation: Crash is unavoidable, but you learn with each crash. You must be mentally prepared to accept crashes, and repair damages. ($$$). Don't feel frustrated. Keep trying and take short breaks to reflect on your mistakes and you will definitely succeed! And i can guarantee that the feeling is beyong description once you see your heli hovering when you finally did it! And that's when the addiction kicks in!

Wow bro... Although i did not read it thru, i can see ur effort trying to explain!
Such a gentleman...

[Artosoft]

Oh yes, I am hovering it just fine now. It was tough in the beginning and i almost gave up at one time but luckily i didn't and with enough practice (and damage repair cost ), i managed to hover it after about a month later. Now, i am totaly addicted to flying helis!

Hi PCK,

From your signature I learn you have GWS DD tail upgrade. Could you please tell me more about it. I read many rear motor died/burn after a while. I am thinking to have it as an upgrade/backup. How much is it? And any necessary to change component?

Thanks!

Regards,
Arto.

[pck]

Hi PCK,

From your signature I learn you have GWS DD tail upgrade. Could you please tell me more about it. I read many rear motor died/burn after a while. I am thinking to have it as an upgrade/backup. How much is it? And any necessary to change component?

Thanks!

Regards,
Arto.

Hi Arto, yes i got the DD tail from Eric (Pips Hobby) during one of the Punggol FF sessions on a Friday night. This is probably the best upgrade for my Hughes. Holds the tail much better than the stock one as it is more responsive. I have been using this same motor for about 4 months now and it is still running fine. My friend who also got the DD tail at the same time for his Hughes is also still running the same motor till now. But we have broken many tail blades due to crashes . It does run rather hot but no problems so far (fingers crossed). Highly recommended. The difference is quite obvious! However you will need to get the tail holder unit to house the motor as well. This will replace your entire tail unit+motor. A little soldering work is required to disconnect the wires from old motor to the new motor.

[Artosoft]

Hi Arto, yes i got the DD tail from Eric (Pips Hobby) during one of the Punggol FF sessions on a Friday night. This is probably the best upgrade for my Hughes. Holds the tail much better than the stock one as it is more responsive. I have been using this same motor for about 4 months now and it is still running fine. My friend who also got the DD tail at the same time for his Hughes is also still running the same motor till now. But we have broken many tail blades due to crashes . It does run rather hot but no problems so far (fingers crossed). Highly recommended. The difference is quite obvious! However you will need to get the tail holder unit to house the motor as well. This will replace your entire tail unit+motor. A little soldering work is required to disconnect the wires from old motor to the new motor.

PCK thanks!

Does it need another gyro? Or can I just change the motor (and tail assembly), and do necessary adjustment on 3in1 mixer?

If you don't mind, the price, since the pips hobby doesn't put the price on their website (if I am not wrong).

Thanks again.

Regards,
Arto.

[pck]

PCK thanks!

Does it need another gyro? Or can I just change the motor (and tail assembly), and do necessary adjustment on 3in1 mixer?

If you don't mind, the price, since the pips hobby doesn't put the price on their website (if I am not wrong).

Thanks again.

Regards,
Arto.

Just PM you.

You will need to re-adjust your propo and gain settings on your 3in1 mixer for the new tail motor.

[SKYHOBBIES]

PCK thanks!

Does it need another gyro? Or can I just change the motor (and tail assembly), and do necessary adjustment on 3in1 mixer?

If you don't mind, the price, since the pips hobby doesn't put the price on their website (if I am not wrong).

Thanks again.

Regards,
Arto.

Hi Arto,

We remembered you as the gentleman who got the Hughes 300 last week .
If you have difficulty adjusting your new motor, please feel free to come back to us to readjust your heading proportion. Every change needs a readjustment and it can be done only at hovering to tell the drift tendency (not during the spooling up as the RPM is not stable for hovering yet...)
We can help to hover your heli up and be able to advise you the amount to adjust on your 3-in-1.

Alternatively we have a very helpful and very friendly gentleman by the name of Edric from PIPS Hobby that he can check for you if you get to try his new tail upgrade. We have seen his mod on motor setup on his dragonfly and it is

Regards

[PIPS HOBBY]

Hi Arto,

We remembered you as the gentleman who got the Hughes 300 last week .
If you have difficulty adjusting your new motor, please feel free to come back to us to readjust your heading proportion. Every change needs a readjustment and it can be done only at hovering to tell the drift tendency (not during the spooling up as the RPM is not stable for hovering yet...)
We can help to hover your heli up and be able to advise you the amount to adjust on your 3-in-1.

Alternatively we have a very helpful and very friendly gentleman by the name of Edric from PIPS Hobby that he can check for you if you get to try his new tail upgrade. We have seen his mod on motor setup on his dragonfly and it is

Regards

Thanks for the complement . Derick was rite! you need some one experience to trim the baby. Beginners will not be able to trim it themself. Any beginners who have problems should seek our help its free to trim the heli . that will clear you the dulp that the heli is on fault.