Trex 250 First Flight, First Crash - and the cost

Trex 250 Stock Super Combo, First Flight, adjusting gyro gain, Expo, D/R, pitch, throt, curves, tracking and things. While setting up it lead to my first 250 Crash - and the cost to repair... That is if I could get the parts to repair it...

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• TRex 250
• T-Rex Crash
• TRex
• Crash

[jdefrain1]

Maverick, that is about the best review of the 250 ever!

[matt1ocon]

sorry for your loss i know the feeling but supprised no one has picked up on this

altho you may have hit throttle hold always always first think to do is unplug the lipo period

could have personal not just fiscal ?

[jdefrain1]

Yeah, unplug the deens, this thing is so little - I don't give it much respect, and your right - I should, if anything good practice. Fact is I don't fly the 250 much - I don't like it - no fun. A 450, I've got bit pretty bad - ONCE - lots of respect for this size and bigger. The Trex 450 is still fun to smack around, but feels like a toy too. Trex 500 Lots of fun, 600 Nitro and Electric much much better, gets the heart pumping. Trex 700 JOY! - 50s and 90s - the bomb... and HUGE respect.

[cbrian4]

It looks like from the video that you added pitch and took off before the head speed was all the way up because of the soft start. Then once you were off the ground the heed speed finally caught up and flung you a little too high. It happened to me once when i was outside, i took off and then all of the sudden the heli started rising fast without any throttle inputs. Scared the crud out of me. sorry for your loss.

[jdefrain1]

cbrian4 - that is exactly what happend, my other birds spool up faster, not used to waiting. I was dropping thot... just not fast enough. I hate normal, idl-1 and 2 for me are mostly flat 95-90-95% and 100-95-100% for all my birds. I see you got a HB2, time for TRex 500 maybe? 250 is fixed, don't like it much, twitchy, hard to see, and everything seems to break in a crash. Cost more to crash then my 450, about the same as my 500, and a bit less then my 600-go figure. Thanks for your comments.

[cbrian4]

I would love a 500, i actually just recieved a 250 (shipping took 2 weeks) as well and its dialed in great with my logictech 2100t and 3100g tail servo. Rock solid tail on pitch pumps. I got pretty good eyes so its all good for me, and its super stable in a hover. I feel spoiled coming from a plastic setup to a luxury aluminum and carbon set up. I can do very ugly rolls with my king so i thought i'd be up to it.

[jdefrain1]

That's great, I checked out your flight videos - time to do some more! Time to youtube your 250. Are you having probems with the tail? Did your kit come with the new bearing spacer for the tail rotor hub? Mine did not (H25074-1) Have you tried a Spartan 760, I borrowed one off my TRex 500 - it rocks on that 250. I'm thinking of putting a TRex 700 together, convert it to electric, 12S w/4035 Scorpion, 611 and 690mm blades - YEAH!!! - brings me great joy just thinking about it.

[jasmine2501]

Oh dude, that was hard to watch!

That is a great example of gyro-induced tail wag though.

Parts are available now, hope you can get it back in the air! I always recommend using training balls on a new helicopter, no matter how experienced you are. Oh, and not flying with a hard altitude limit :)

[stew666999]

mate thanks for sharing that sad moment. hope you get your heli fixed up real soon.

[saintsro1234]

Ya i brock my landing gear and we orderd them and it only came with ine insted of two

[PatateDrogueii]

Nice Mercedes BTW :D

[spwb2k]

lol wuz pretty sure the crash would involve the benzo

[maverickthebastard]

@jdefrain1 Just converting my 700nitro to KDE electric 560kv scorpion and tried the 130amp esc of theirs, it did not work! Now looking at Kontroniks 120hv , double the price but I'm told they are the dogs, Castle Creations was also a very scary option. Please let me know how you get on. KDE parts are the cream.

[migueyeah123]

OMG i love ur car

[i7fan]

-Servos OK!

-Try again later!

Good stuff! :D

[runnerba]

It may seem fun, but like most of my repair helicopters that fly exactly .... i almost "happy" when hit. Is this normal? = D I just fix my T-rex 500, which broke a 7-important parts, including the main shaft and feathering shaft (bent). he practically exploded ..... (unskilled pilot) It was a nasty fall, with the battery stop going away .... Funny, even pity not filmed. The only thing funny was not worth the $ $ $ to repair .....

[runnerba]

@maverickthebastard hhhhhmmmmmmm....... perhaps, sometimes........

[Chansaux]

lol i watched it 7 times and stil laughed