i had that same thing happen this morning on my tt raptor 50t lukly it wasnt off the ground my set screws broke so there wasnt much i could do. yours looked good
yes it would be very difficult with a blade cp, not because of lower headspeed, but the blades are too light, no inertia to keep them going long enough,
Funny you should ask. I have not done one intentionally yet, but I'm told that you hit the throttle hold and give negative pitch and glide her in to land. This causes the heli to use the rotation of the blades to slow down the descent. Interesting to watch and scary to try!
I had to do an autorotation today unintentional when my Hawk flamed out. It landed in one piece without incident which I was very fortunate since it was only my second autorotation (both unintentional). It was up about 50 feet when it happened. Carbuerator came loose!
The carburator guide screw backed out leaving an exposed hole where the fuel flows. This causes some fuel to escape and allows the engine to run lean, throwing off the air/fuel mixture.. i.e. less amount of fuel.
Preflight inspection didn't catch this, but I added more loctite to these screws now.
Very lucky it had enough headspeed to make it down safely.
I think your belt-cp would be hard because of the lack of headspeed to do an auto, but you could try from a few feet up and see.
nice
dannne82 1 year ago
Oh No crash I am so sad!!!
azezrtyuuiopqsdfghjk 1 year ago
Wow when it goes hurdling towards the ground it sounds like low on fuel.
ThelastSano 1 year ago
Autorotations mate, auto-bloody-rotations! Can't stress the importance of learning it.
kiethjason 1 year ago
nah not luck...SKILL... lol
mynameisliamhahahaha 2 years ago
waaaaay too lean.
bowmaaker 2 years ago
that was no fall, that was only not good fly !
pHeliXChrisq 2 years ago
it was lean from the beginning!
jhoexp 2 years ago
Beautiful save. This is why I always do 3 auto rotations before staring off my flying day.
prttimeninja 2 years ago
thats why i like electric
shockflyyer3d 2 years ago
i had that same thing happen this morning on my tt raptor 50t lukly it wasnt off the ground my set screws broke so there wasnt much i could do. yours looked good
z3cougars 2 years ago
I agree, very nice save!
I've had the same failure on my 600E last summer, but didn't think to apply T/R and so the heli spun out and it was my first crash.
Since then I've been practicing autos a lot.
snviper 3 years ago
yes it would be very difficult with a blade cp, not because of lower headspeed, but the blades are too light, no inertia to keep them going long enough,
robbie77300 3 years ago
Nice save.
mspitz 3 years ago
That could have turn out reall bad..
Nice saving though! By the way, how does a auto rotation landing work?
RcAntax 3 years ago
Funny you should ask. I have not done one intentionally yet, but I'm told that you hit the throttle hold and give negative pitch and glide her in to land. This causes the heli to use the rotation of the blades to slow down the descent. Interesting to watch and scary to try!
tivopro 3 years ago
I had to do an autorotation today unintentional when my Hawk flamed out. It landed in one piece without incident which I was very fortunate since it was only my second autorotation (both unintentional). It was up about 50 feet when it happened. Carbuerator came loose!
tivopro 3 years ago
Oh, I´m glad it survived:) Was it something wrong with the engine or did it just stop?
I wonder if i can make a auto with my belt-cp..
RcAntax 3 years ago
The carburator guide screw backed out leaving an exposed hole where the fuel flows. This causes some fuel to escape and allows the engine to run lean, throwing off the air/fuel mixture.. i.e. less amount of fuel.
Preflight inspection didn't catch this, but I added more loctite to these screws now.
Very lucky it had enough headspeed to make it down safely.
I think your belt-cp would be hard because of the lack of headspeed to do an auto, but you could try from a few feet up and see.
tivopro 3 years ago