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There is something odd about the part number because the 600 uses a different (smaller) umbrella gear to the 700, and the 500 is smaller again. What part numbers do you have? Definitely worth checking all the points i mentioned in the last post regarding the tail slider position and the...

Yes, the downside of that is you would eventually have no option but to land when the battery is totally depleted but with no control of the timing, so possibly right on top of the waiting dog!. I tried to bring mine down when the dog was (I thought) a safe distance away and while i still had...

It's basically a 6s powered 'stretched 450'. Same size as the Trex 450L Dominator or Blade 360 CFX. In flight it really 'feels' like a much bigger and better heli than the old Trex 450 pro. Yeah, me chasing a dog with a heli in it's jaws would make good video. My money would be on the dog...

This is certainly not normal for a trex 700, those gears are normally pretty tough. There is obviously a real physical problem somewhere in the system. If you are sure that the bevel gears were properly assembled and meshing correctly then it's really got to be something jamming the tail rotor...

Yes, the Chase 360 is a brilliant heli, the engineering is fantastic, best heli in its class as far as I'm concerned. I found it funny too, in fact you can hear me chuckle to myself when the dog first showed up. The only dangerous part is landing and as a rule the owner turn up and take the dog...

So the field i fly at is a public area. Normally this isnt a problem, even dogs arent usually a problem, but there is one exception.. Border Collies. They have the inbred instinct to round things up, and helis are no exception: https://youtu.be/W91D44G3NIw The owners can be seen ambling...

The different helis aren't too much of a problem. I find if I setup the FBL the same then they fly in a quite similar way. But I'm not a hard flyer, I guess if you are into hard 3D small differences would be a lot more important.

Neil, Thinking of your little misadventure with the rescue switch today, here's a 'ghetto' fix to make a momentary (spring return) rescue switch: The offer is still there if you want the job doing 'right' with a proper momentory switch (Futaba part # 3M94A00907) available on ebay...

I just picked up an Agile 7.2 airframe with motor and blades on an impulse buy. Guy was selling it at about 30% of what it would cost to buy new and i couldn't resist. It's a couple of years old but has upgrade to latest FBL head (non-DFC) a spare canopy and the latest upgraded TT gears.. plus...

Nice heli collection there Rodney, looks like a good flying site too.

Personally I much prefer using a governor, it just give more consistent performance and feel through the flight with no bogging down under load or as the battery gets depleted. But you could still reduce headspeed by dropping down your throttle % a bit more.

Yeah, i did say the price was a little on the 'eye-watering' side:wink: Seems like they are trying to compete head on with the likes of Jeti, including on price. I think they could struggle, people with that much money to spend will usually be looking for an up-market brand name to go with the...

Or in most cases simply reduce the % throttle in your throttle curve. Are you using a governor?

Sounds like you need to work on you pitch and throttle curves. You should be hovering at or just above mid stick. The 150 is really hard work, you need super fast reactions to fly it, very much NOT a heli to use to learn on. Much the same goes for any micro size collective pitch heli, small...

Micro helis CP can be very fiddly little beasts. I too have a Trex 150 but gave up on it as it's just too much hard work and frustration, easily the most fussy and difficult heli to work on I've ever owned. Give me 700+ size helis any day. But anyway... have they been crashed? If they have...

You take the tail shaft out and the side plate off then the umbrella pushes out backward.. It needs a good firm push.

Yeah, it's pretty easy. On a large heli you can be a couple of ft in the air or even higher because there is lots of stored energy in the blades. So you just set up for landing and when ready hit throttle hold. The heli will immediately sink and as it gets near the deck you progressively feed in...

Neil, Sadly no, the only chargers that support the resistive load trick is the iCharger Duo series. Some chargers like the PL6 and PL8 and iChargers will do 'regenerative discharge' to another battery, which is fine 'if' you have something like a large lead acid battery to put the charge into...

Discharging large batteries to storage can be time consuming. Even the most expensive chargers have modest discharge power rating, for instance the PL6 mentioned in the last post has a discharge power of only 50W which means only 2A discharge on a 6S battery. My ICharger is a lot better at 200W...

Or put another way.. "they won't grow if you starve them!".. very humane:rolleyes: