cscheli
New Heliman
Location: chicago, il
| I think the fact that Futaba has gone so far as to back away and say that these are no good for air use is a pretty good indication that they know there is a major problem. I just put 3 of them in a new 600 nitro and on the 5th flight bang, I was dead. So if you decide to continue using them at this point after seeing all of this your on your own.
If you have them and have not yet used them, I would send them back to were you purchased them and save yourself the headache. If you have used them try letting your retailer know the issue and see if they can replace yours via there distributor given the situation. My retailer has already pulled all of his and is sending them back to Futaba after seeing all this.
I you have them and are going to continue using them, I'd make sure you have AMA insurance up to date (make sure you get that lost limb digit, and heli through a windsheild coverage) and let everyone in your imediate area know your flying a potential ticking time bomb! When mine went out I had no abiltiy to counter the heli going out of control so it could of easily been ugly and injured someone if I had of been up in the air doing manuvers. Luckily I was only 10 feet off the ground testing it in a hover.
At this point this isn't radio glitching or an FM vs Spectrum issue, or even a build setup or static issue, this is faulty servo issue. So it doesn't matter what your transmitter and receiver is if the servo goes all Hellen Keller on you.
I'm just curious as to what the truth is:
1. Did Futaba trully market these as all purpose servos only to try and back away from that when planes/helis started falling from the sky, rather than fess up and say ooppss!
Or
2. The marketig department totally screwed up when they plastered "recomended for air" everywhere on these, and some product engineer was in the background saying "God no don't tell people to use those in planes and helis, we just lost a spy satallite and had to shot it down becuase the DoD used those darn things"  |
