RC Helicopter AutoRotate Crash Landing Bob's TREX600

[antonis0035tc]

that was a very nice bro keep up the good flying!!! ;)

[cheddar1100]

Well it could be ALOT worse!!

[MsCessna152]

nice vid, the same thing happened to me with my plane.

[yeogav]

"hate and dicontent of the electrical system" haha nice description of a burned out ESC

[Domingos0956]

realy nice landing ^^ good reaction !

[danksmokaz]

fing esc draws to much powers....killer landing and your heli is a nice 3D ! sounds great

[paddlefoot07]

That sucks nice trex

[theo1888phun]

wow great landing

[just4playin1]

Nice save, and from a low altitude too... Did you ever determine why the motor locked up? Was it a bearing failure or did it come apart? I had a motor come apart on me once and it chewed the inside of the motor up until there were to many pieces inside for it to keep turning and ya know...bye bye

[dontlikeholsters]

did the six cell battery do this?

[liteglow2000]

great landing !

But WATER !!! NO NO NO NO NO !!

I would have killed that guy that use water on my electric heli !!

[just4playin1]

@liteglow2000 Your supposed to use distilled water on Lipo batteries. Its the only thing that will stop them from burning and discharge them safely... If you ever get you electronics wet in regular water just rinse all the parts in distilled water and let it dry. They will work good as new like nothing happened... Learned the hard way running electric cars up and down the beach and have a wave sneak up and soak it with salt water. Distilled water saved them every single time...

[liteglow2000]

@just4playin1 Hmm thanx for sharing that info ;) I did not know that water could be used.

Thumbs UP

[just4playin1]

@liteglow2000 Yeah just make sure it is DISTILLED water... Distilled water has all the salt and minerals removed and since there is no minerals of any kind in it, it doesnt conduct electricity. When my electric trucks and buggies would get soaked with salt water from the ocean I would place them in a large bucket and pour gallons of distilled water over them and soak them for 10 minutes then I would blow all the excess water off with compressed can air and dry them over night... Works great

[matodono1]

Hate and discontent, a way with words if ever there was one.

[blackened260]

wow thanks for the big worded explanation

[lighturpl3]

Nice auto

[Dreamlgider]

Nice save :)

[trexinvert]

Nice save, but you were a little "bouncy" on the landing. In general, everyone should practice this electric/nitro. If you're not a mile high, just go to flat pitch and bring it straight down...with a well timed/practiced gradual positive pitch. There's too much emphasis and crap on "fancy auto's". Negative pitch, forward motion, flaring!!! Newbie's get misled. You did it right and just brought it staight down.

[wrxsavvy]

nice save. This makes me think about my esc settings. on castle creation esc almost everybody runs " insensitive" on the current limiting option, now if this were to happen to me ( motor failure) the esc will do the same. In the other hand if I were to limit the esc to say 120A this might be avoidable.

[Gehaddk]

OMG

[jahatton]

Good job on your auto rotation! Hope the airframe is alright.

Jim

[supersnot4]

job well done. nice use of autorotation.

[peterasimpson]

A great AutoRotate recovery.

[PunknDrunk]

pah nerds

[heliscat]

smart guy run to put your face in a burning LiPoly, let the damn heli burn its only a toy vs. being blind. Silly.

[puggster]

most good quality lipo's will have a safety feature if they puff up they normaly have controled discharge to stop the pack exploding, in most cases a small hole will apear and the pack or cell will discharge the pressure out of the holewith a breif burst of fire or hot gas with thick smoke, thats about as extreme as it gets, lipos are alot safer than most will belive, any fire caused will be very breif and an explosion is very rare

[Ourparkour]

how do you autorotate?

[Helicopterpilot16]

@Ourparkour Cut power, lower collective, and raise collective just a bit to control rpm, and flare and pick up collective to cusion landing

[puggster]

when you have power failure or sudden unexpected power cutoff , you can use autorotation to land your heli by changing to negative pitch to keep the blades spinning then on aproach to the ground you apply positive pitch to regain a slight hover to alow a safe landing, you can also practice autorotations as a manouver if you flick the throttle hold switch to engage autorotation, you must have a second gear with one way bearing to allow the clutch action needed to autorotate

[KFrag420]

Good save man

[dustsmoke]

Nice job! I can autorotate when its planned but I'm fairly certain that I'd waste too much time figuring out that the power was gone to get it down if something unexpected happened like that.

[Ignantredneck]

electric rc is gay

[justinRkeaton]

lol obviously you have never flown a heli to know if electric is good or bad go figure.

[dustmundo]

nice save. and that wasn't a crash landing. Thats an ACE landing.

[shockflyyer3d]

New ESC and a little dust up

[Shawnee845]

Always have Wire Cutters in your pocket to cut the battery cable. That landing rock!

[carballom1983]

considering that was a real auto rotation vs practice runs, it was very well executed. good job saving your helicopter!

[RoboTekno]

poor battery :(

[leezaal]

Amazing auto, It was the pilots lucky day too that could have been so much worse. were you running the GY611 gyro or something similar on that 600, kinda looks like it.

[quandumphone]

Yes, that's a 611.

[cristianjosadec]

good recovery man, is the stock 75a align esc?

[quandumphone]

Yes, that was the stock Align 75 amp ESC. It only blew because I didn't go to throttle hold. The amp surge must have been huge with basically full throttle on a seized motor. I'm running the castle 85hv now but the stock Align seemed to have plenty of headroom to handle the NEU1515 motor.

[NitroBlastSnorter]

IDK if the Belt-CP has a OWB in the main gears...

If it doesn't, when you hit the TH you'll be in for a surprise!!

[mgrande11]

You can auto rotate a Belt-CP, there's no throttle hold button on the stock TX you'll just have to burn up the esc or motor.

[0n3m1s1s0]

or cut the throttle on the TX

[mgrande11]

Yeah but that would also change the collective pitch.

[0n3m1s1s0]

very good and true point but dont you need abit of neg pitch to keep blade rpm up on smaller birds? my biggest heli is a trex 500 so my way of thinking might be different or even totally wrong when it comes to helis this size and up (not sure never flown one)

[MetalHeli3D]

The Autorotation capability can be set up with a six channel transmitter/reciever when you flip the throttle hold switch. The throttle hold switch remotely controls the power (on/off)to the throttle.

[kilimats02]

what device control the auto rotate ? is that built into the trex ?

I have a belt CP, is it something i can add ?

[trytofly22]

@kilimats02 The pilot is the only device.