setting flybar paddles and blade tracking

[@ziggy653]

I'm a new heli guy myself, this is basic and extremely important information. Thanks and keep up the good work.

[@HermantjeB]

@j70ruiz yeah your right, the main shaft is bent. you can clearly see it when he's is turning up the RPM

[@DirkME1022]

I was looking for a tutorial like this, thank you for taking the time and record it. Happy New Year 2011 :-))

[@CarillonA1]

good work and thanks for the tip. just crashed and have to replace the cross bar, and the bent guide bar.

[@DUKEBLADE]

is this for the belt cp? thanks great vid!!

[@MrRazorblood]

I need help with aligning my blades, i aligned the swash plate already "eye balled" but i am unsure how to align the blades correctly using the pitch gauge. What i did was i put my 450 on TH HOLD and adjusted the blades to 0 pitch using the gauge. I that the correct way to align the blades or..........?

[@DUKEBLADE]

wat heli is this?

[@farmfanugan]

do you have to put CA on the flybar paddle? or do you just leave it?

[@very9000]

Hello. You do not fix the flybar axis?

[@j70ruiz]

you stated that you have crashed quite a bit. in viewing this video on the blade tracking looks like the main shaft may be slightly bent. what do you think?

[@TechnoPlumberVR]

I like your video the best. I was trying to see where you made the adjustment to lower the red blade on the tracking. This is my problem, I don't know which linkage to adjust to raise or lower the blade. Can you close video this? Thanks for the lessons-T

[@MaxAcceleration]

Great video, thanks a lot, please continue to make more.

[@bdarnell1966]

A lot of complainers here but thanks for the video and taking the time to help people out.

[@dougsrccom]

Pretty Good Real Big ! Thanks for taking the time !!!

[@jondenny7336]

This is so helpful, thank you very very much.

[@joseppi2219]

@speedstakerguy real heli Blades pretty much tracked the same way. Tracking tape, and some use eyeball, Others a machine/camera that does what a previous poster said, like the Cadu.. Which then tells you which pitch control rod to adjust

[@totoni2000]

good job. can you adjust mine too??? wehre do you live???

[@svefro]

Nice Video.. I noticed that your heli seams to be shaking rather mouch as you spin up.. I have just repeared my t-rex after my first crash. After i adjusted the blade tracking i noticed that the heli was shaking just like yours. Why is that? and is it normal?

[@JamieElvisGass]

Hey friend, I did the same thing one time and one blade broke off. The heli luckily went away from me at a thunderous thrust. I could have slit my throat.. Always track in the air...

[@cardboards]

dangg i wonder how hard it is to track the blades on a real size helicopter

[@14cyproit14]

extremely good job, but on my DX6i Blade 400 transmitter, i just do everything you've done, with my transmitter, in less that 3 minutes. Simples ;)

[@cardboards]

why would u do that?

[@Jimi409]

I've seen a guy break his finger with his trex doing it that way. His finger slipped off, got caught between the flybar and a link and CRACK!

[@gmodesike]

the volume is fine! you can't hear

[@f_nc]

thanks for the video.

[@wilfru1]

hi jim,good vid but after the kid got killed in new york with trex 600 im not so sure about your method,buy the way show a set up tracking vid for a trex 500,,thanx keep up the vids,

[@nick0780]

Thanks

[@Jimi409]

You don't hover to check tracking and you certainly don't hold the heli. Doesn't matter what size it is. You spin it up till it gets "light-footed" and look at it from the side. If you can't get that far to the ground, put it on a table.

[@pitotoy07]

if your viewers cannot perform an eye level hover, the safe way to do blade tracking is grab a friend to watch the blades while the pilot is mainly condentrating to hover the bird. make sense mate!

[@Jimi409]

NEVER STOP BLADES WITH THE TIP OF YOUR FINGER!!! This is INSANE! You stop the blades with your open palm down and your fingers curved up. Also, I wouldn't use electrical tape as it would add extra weight to the blades. Go buy tracking tape. There is also a way to put the tape on but I can't draw here.

[@scottfirman]

Check out night flyyers video on a test platform,much safer than holding down like that,wow. Not safe.

[@VENTSHD]

Nice thanks

[@bushpilot-bm3kf]

Thank god ther are LED electronic bade tracking units.

[@totoni2000]

belt cp i think.

[@brandex62]

mate'' it look's like your feathering shaft is bent '' also quite a lot of vibration when you spool up the rotor head' ... just saying ' ! ok.

[@wcwickedclown]

its very dangerous to plug up the heli before the radio. the heli can pick up a tv signal from somewhere else and take off. always turn the radio on first.

[@pitotoy07]

still unsafe. it's not the size of the heli, it's the rpm in the motor when it's turning.

[@MonarchGuy974]

@DobarDabar too late!! OOOWWWW!!! :) I just use goggles

[@pitotoy07]

the safe and proper way to do blade tracking is to fly the bird.

[@DUKEBLADE]

the finger :P

[@mainlymusicman]

you never explained what you were doing when you lowered the blade, you just concentrated on showing how to unplug the battery and plug in the motor... duh???

[@pitotoy07]

what you did there was really dangerous (blade tracking). you shouldn't be holding the helicopter when spooling up. that's not the proper way to do blade tracking.

[@corona0007]

This is a very unsafe practice of holding a heli while spooling it up in front of your face! What are yo going to do if you have a mechanical failure? Like a ball link popping off or a glitch on your TX, RX and decides to go full elevator or aileron? Also did you plug your heli before your TX? Hope you have good medical insurance! Take this video down please.

[@djtyros]

clicking = thumbs down

[@ashmanly]

DUDE SPEAK UP can hardly hear you.