JCadwell
Key Veteran
Location: Richland WA/ Morro Bay, CA
| I'm not suggesting it definatley played a part in the crash, but I think in my case it did play a part. Since a base loaded antenna requires cutting the original antenna, and many are crimp on style, I'd suggest that unless it is soldered on, the connection might be suspect. I've had three base loaded antennas, two of which worked fine. I can't pinpoint the third as the crash culprit, but as far as I can tell it was the only compromised sytem component. Perhaps my base loaded antenna had an internal fault (it was soldered to the antenna wire), or maybe I had a massive glitch. Howvever, when I lined up both my helis post crash, and turned them both on, both with base loads, I could get an acceptable range check with one (100+ feet with the TX antenna down), and the other would twitch big time at 15 feet out. When I replaced the antenna with a wire, the glitching stopped, and operation returned to normal.
Thanks, John Cadwell |
, as if i had just given a full forward cyclic command, pulling back did nothing and it did not rotate or rev up it just flipped and hit the ground the crash damage was, top mixing levers, boom, mast, head, flybar, feathering shaft and blades, has anyone had a similar crash or can anyone explain what happened to me. i am new to heli's and was very down hearted by this crash.
