MILNEI
Senior Heliman
Location: Buckingham, England
| A couple of weeks ago I started my new Heli for the first time. I was a bit nevous as it was the first time for this heli, and 3 months since I last flew my old heli (R.I.P.)
I decided to start it on the drive at home, just to make sure that it would start before packing all the gear into the car and making my way to the field.
My neighbour joined me as I checked everything over, and started her up. No problem, so I decided to get a little headspeed up to make sure there were not killer vibrations. No problem there either, but I did notice that the rudder was reversed.
So, throttle back to idle, I accessed the menus on my JR-66MAX and cycled through to the servo reverse menu. The default channel was the throttle, 'I DON'T WANT TO REVERSE THAT ONE' I thought to myself, but, in my nerves, instead of pressing the 'skip' button to get to the rudder channel, yep, you guessed it, I pressed '+'.
OH MY GAWD......
My poor little Irvine 36 hit the roof, and my NEXUS began a merry pirouette accross my drive. With the heading hold switched off, she was spinning furiously whilst the head speed soared (0 deg pitch + full throttle).
Trying to think logically (not easy in this situation) I thought, go full stick on the throttle to bring it back to idle......
OH MY GAWD........
Now I had a rapidly airborne NEXUS, still spinning, but with the engine dieing (having gone to +10 deg pitch at full stick). So I brought it back to ground, but again with the engine racing.
Only one sensible thing to do, reverse the channel. Luckly the NEXUS wasn't advancing towards us, but it was nearing the edge of my drive and if it got into the grass, it would have toppled over and we'd be picking pieces of carbon blades out of our chins.
So, 'calm down' I told myself, I accessed the menus again and cycled through to the servo reverse, got to the throttle, and hit that '+' button.
 , that's better.
So lesson learned BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN REVERSING TX CHANNELS.
Anyone got a number for Heli-widows, my wife wants to join!!
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