"Blade CP pro 2" - Dickhead of the year award!!!!!
KGB
I received 2 packages a few days ago, both arriving within 5 minutes
of each other:- A large flatpack garden store and a much smaller
parcel containing a Blade CP pro 2.
The first thing I did was to unpack the heli, put the battery on
charge and then got to grips assembling the garden store.
After half an hour or so I spotted the heli battery was now fully
charged and I was getting bored screwing the garden store together; it
was a beautiful day but bad weather was forecast so I thought I may as
well have a quick test flight - "Nah, haven't time to read the
instructions, I'll do that tomorrow. I have had decades of experience
successfully test flying new models and instructions are the last
resort of the incompetent."
In my rush to get the heli airborne - but still distracted thinking
about the garden store - I think what I did was to arm the heli on
full rates and stunt mode, throttle hold off and failed to notice that
the horizontal stabiliser was turned through 90 degrees (i.e.
vertical).
A cursory check that the controls worked then moving the left stick
forward I thought, "Why is the throttle not working? - Ah, I know why
not" then flicked the throttle hold switch, with the throttle
absentmindedly still half open.
Result, instant full throttle with the heli up, down, then thrashing
about on its side and me staring stupidly at the trannie wondering why
instantly knocking the throttle down hadn't stopped the motor -
"Bugger, should have knocked off the throttle hold switch!!!!".
Am I eligible for "Complete Dickhead of the year" award??
The new main blades (splintered), new servo (stripped gears), centre
hub, rotor spindle, "main shaft & gear drive" (stripped teeth) etc.
arrived a couple of days ago. I fitted the replacement parts
yesterday and having now read the instructions (and also adding more
flybar weights), I have just had another go. I am impressed; despite
the aerobatic claims, adding more flybar weights has made it quite a
docile model and - even with my very limited heli flying experience -
I soon had it hovering over the lawn and doing gentle circuits over my
wife's favourite flower bed when she wasn't looking (a "dickhead of
the year" award in itself and a big incentive not to crash!!!!!!)
I am normally very careful about testing new models, but this time
rushed it whilst my mind was on too many other things at the same
time; also, with the knowledge that it was ready to fly and that
E-Flite claim it flies superbly straight from the box I thought I
would take a chance. A lesson learnt the hard way!!!
Regards (shamefacedly)
KGB
Tom Minger
"KGB (KGB)" <FedUpW...@NoEmailAddre.ss> wrote in message
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KGB
<tomm...@volcano.net> wrote:
>How did the garden store turn out?
That was fine!!! 8^)
KGB
Skywise
What is a "garden store", other than a place to shop for
gardening supplies?
Brian
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KGB
wrote:
>Perhaps this will earn myself an award of my own, but...
>
>What is a "garden store", other than a place to shop for
>gardening supplies?
>
>Brian
Hi
We have just purchased a wood burning stove and it is a wooden
structure in my garden to store logs whilst they dry out; I wasn't
sure that anybody from across the Atlantic who read my post would be
familiar with the term "log bunker" - "garden store" seemed a more
general description.
At least that was my logic after several pints of homebrew!!!
Regards
KGB
Carsten Bauer
When I got my Honeybee King 2, I hit the Flight Mode switch on the
controller.
End result, a splintered blade, and several large cuts to my arm :(
Learnt a very important lesson that day about respecting your
helicopters, because as they say in the instructions.. they can injure
AND kill!.
Carsten
sligoNo...@hotmail.com
<FedUpW...@NoEmailAddre.ss> (KGB) wrote:
..
>
>Am I eligible for "Complete Dickhead of the year" award??
>
Not if you learned from the experience. Now it you do it
again next week ......
Doug McLaren
KGB <FedUpW...@NoEmailAddre.ss> wrote:
| Am I eligible for "Complete Dickhead of the year" award??
Nope. Everybody makes mistakes like that.
You'd be a dickhead if you sent it back to the company who sold it to
you and said it was faulty, however. :)
--
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My inferiority complex is not as good as yours.
Beav
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Nope. I firmly believe that EVERY electric helicopter has tried to kill its
owner at one time or another.
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Zed 1000
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Beav
"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" <skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote in
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>
>>Nope. I firmly believe that EVERY electric helicopter has tried to kill
>>its
>>owner at one time or another.
>
> me.
>
> I did have one a couple years ago that spooled up on it's own during a
> range check, but I was 100' away at the time and it never left the
> ground.
It tried though :-)
I've currently got a T-Rex 450 sat on my bench. I've built it and rigged it,
but I've not applied a battery to the motor yet. I can't see me doing it
either.
Beav
"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" <skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote in
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:53:38 +0100, "Beav"
> <beavis....@ntlwoxorld.com> wrote:
>
>
>>It tried though :-)
>
> Actually, the failsafe was set to 0-pitch and it didn't appear to even
> get light on the skids. Dunno why it spooled up as I set the throttle
> to 0 for failsafe.
That's the big problem though. Zero pitch means the least drag. That means
faster acceleratin. That means more times the blade can chop lumps out of
you (or me). Damn them, Damn them all to hell :-)
>
>>I've currently got a T-Rex 450 sat on my bench. I've built it and rigged
>>it,
>>but I've not applied a battery to the motor yet. I can't see me doing it
>>either.
>
> Go fly it. They're great "beaters" for trying new stuff with and
> they're dirt cheap to fix when you do ball it up.
Hey, I'll have you know this one is fully tricked out. Not a piece pf
plastic anywhere near it. All aluminum and farbon ciber.
Beav
"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" <skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote in
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:00:49 -0000, "Beav"
> <beavis....@ntlwoxorld.com> wrote:
>
>
>>That's the big problem though. Zero pitch means the least drag. That means
>>faster acceleratin. That means more times the blade can chop lumps out of
>>you (or me). Damn them, Damn them all to hell :-)
>
> that during assembly. I don't think it counts as ready to fly unless
> if cut myself or driven a hex/screw driver into a finger or palm
> during assembly.
>
>
>>Hey, I'll have you know this one is fully tricked out. Not a piece pf
>>plastic anywhere near it. All aluminum and farbon ciber.
>
One of these days Kev :-)