Ha! Dangerously funny...

Originally Posted by ryan_m

If I had to guess he had the blade pitch reversed. I did that once. Scared the crap out of me. You start spinning the heli up and try to bring it off the ground. Only the blades are making down thrust and it stays down. Eventually I got to 3/4 throttle and it was still stuck down to the ground. So I brought the throttle to idle, which was conveniently about 8 degrees of positive pitch, and now that the head speed was nice and fast it launched off the ground very much like his did. Then slows the head down since the motor is at idle, and so it falls. In my case I gave throttle back to it to cushion the fall and made it fall faster (down thrust from reversed blade pitch) and also spin the head up, then you freak out because it's falling so fast and so you bring it to idle, giving up pitch again and shooting it back into the sky
Anyways after 4-5 yo-yo's I shut the whole thing down with throttle hold and let it fall. Most terrifying 15 seconds I've had in RC!

Sounds like a good reason to not run linear throttle on a heli.

Ya I thought it was a crazy place to fly that size heli anyway

No kidding! I guess he had about enough room to hover and pirouette, but that's about it.

Originally Posted by quadracer

Sounds like a good reason to not run a heli.

Fixed it for ya.

Originally Posted by blakevan

Fixed it for ya.

Haha, yeah right!

Any addicts in the Rock Island/Moline area?

We are going to take hometime in the Kingsport/Bristol, TN area over the weekend...I know Bivens is over in Ktown but anybody else in that area over the weekend?

Looks like 100mi from Kingsport to Ktown....

Thanks everyone! I was just thinking about getting a Blade 450 bnf that I just saw a really good deal on. All of this talk (specifically Ryan's comments), has convinced me that I should just stay with planes!!!! Lol. Thanks for helping me keep some money.

I have owned 3 450 size helis and two MCPx helis and to be honest the most fun I have is with my daughters $20 xheli coaxial toy. YMMV

Originally Posted by aronph

We are going to take hometime in the Kingsport/Bristol, TN area over the weekend...I know Bivens is over in Ktown but anybody else in that area over the weekend?

Are you on a campaign trail? Trying to sell gopher control?

Originally Posted by ryan_m

If I had to guess he had the blade pitch reversed. I did that once. Scared the crap out of me. You start spinning the heli up and try to bring it off the ground. Only the blades are making down thrust and it stays down. Eventually I got to 3/4 throttle and it was still stuck down to the ground. So I brought the throttle to idle, which was conveniently about 8 degrees of positive pitch, and now that the head speed was nice and fast it launched off the ground very much like his did. Then slows the head down since the motor is at idle, and so it falls. In my case I gave throttle back to it to cushion the fall and made it fall faster (down thrust from reversed blade pitch) and also spin the head up, then you freak out because it's falling so fast and so you bring it to idle, giving up pitch again and shooting it back into the sky
Anyways after 4-5 yo-yo's I shut the whole thing down with throttle hold and let it fall. Most terrifying 15 seconds I've had in RC!

Guy at our club got in to some helis and I think his largest is a 450 size?? Looks close or maybe a little smaller than the one in the video. One flight several months ago he got it turned around comming at him and had to sort of duck and cover....IE RUN!! Since then, I've seen the repaired heli at the field with him every time he is there...but he has not flown it again. I guess if my 87 chases me down I might have a little fear to.

Originally Posted by robj

Are you on a campaign trail? Trying to sell gopher control?

I could totally be president

Originally Posted by robj

Guy at our club got in to some helis and I think his largest is a 450 size?? Looks close or maybe a little smaller than the one in the video. One flight several months ago he got it turned around comming at him and had to sort of duck and cover....IE RUN!! Since then, I've seen the repaired heli at the field with him every time he is there...but he has not flown it again. I guess if my 87 chases me down I might have a little fear to.

nah, that was a big 12s setup.

a 450 is a little 3s face scratcher compared to the guillotine in that dude's video!