alfred
Senior Heliman
Location: Australia, New South Wales, Mid North Coast
| I admit that range checks are less the norm now as I have not had a failure for over 10 years.
I do a visual and physical check before every flight and usually hover it for a minute before landing it again,stopping the blades and do another check on servos, linkages, muffler mount, fuel connections and a general feel on all moving parts. This takes less then 15 seconds.
I "always" check for correct control corrections before any flight.
Overdoing it? I don't think so as I had the X-Cell for over 10 years and never crashed.
When I upgrade parts or do major changes I always put the training legs back on.
Last Saturday after the routine checks I lifted her carefully of the ground and then saw the fastes pirouettes I have ever witnessed a heli do.
Closed the throttle and walked away without a scratch on it.
For the very 1st time my Gyro was in reverse (CSM540) which was easely corrected and normal flight proceeded from their.
I believe it happend since after the programming I didn't turn it off and on, so when I went to the field I also fergot to give it 5 seconds without moving for the gyro to run through it's preflight checks.
It proved again that initial precausions will pay off.  |
