Tony
Staff member
To work on that is lmao. A member (to remain nameless unless he posts in here) sent the helicopter to me to get it running correctly since he was having some issues.
Lets face it though, nitro can be intimidating to someone that is just starting out. This heli is not small and can cause damage if it hits person or property. And along with that, you have to get the tuning right or you will burn up an engine which is quite costly to rebuild. And if you crash, you are out a few hundred bucks in repairs.
So the helicopter is sitting at my house waiting on me to get there and once I do I will put it together and get to working on it.
The reason for this thread is to ask if you all would like a video on this process that I'm going to go through? From taking it out of the box to putting it together to tuning it (and not burning up the clutch lmao) and getting it stable in the air. So do you want to see some videos on this?
Now the member did forget to put the little USB link in the box for the Skookum so I may have to toss on another gyro to get all of the work done while I wait for that piece to be delivered. And I have a Brain sitting in a box just waiting for a heli to go on so that will be perfect. And it has bluetooth on it, I think. Not sure, it's been a while lol.
Just let me know if you want to see a video on what I do to setup a helicopter. I'm sure it's going to be a few videos (repair and diag. setting up the gyro. restoring factory defaults to the helicopter. setting up the Tx for the new heli. then just the flight where I will do a rough tuning of the engine)
One thing to note is this engine is going to be run a few thousand feet higher in the air (above sea level) than what I have at my house so the tuning is going to be very rough. Basically the higher the altitude the leaner you have to run the engine. You will make about 5% less power per 1000' you go up. So it will make more power here than it will there. Not a big deal though since neither one of us are smack pilots lol.
Lets face it though, nitro can be intimidating to someone that is just starting out. This heli is not small and can cause damage if it hits person or property. And along with that, you have to get the tuning right or you will burn up an engine which is quite costly to rebuild. And if you crash, you are out a few hundred bucks in repairs.
So the helicopter is sitting at my house waiting on me to get there and once I do I will put it together and get to working on it.
The reason for this thread is to ask if you all would like a video on this process that I'm going to go through? From taking it out of the box to putting it together to tuning it (and not burning up the clutch lmao) and getting it stable in the air. So do you want to see some videos on this?
Now the member did forget to put the little USB link in the box for the Skookum so I may have to toss on another gyro to get all of the work done while I wait for that piece to be delivered. And I have a Brain sitting in a box just waiting for a heli to go on so that will be perfect. And it has bluetooth on it, I think. Not sure, it's been a while lol.
Just let me know if you want to see a video on what I do to setup a helicopter. I'm sure it's going to be a few videos (repair and diag. setting up the gyro. restoring factory defaults to the helicopter. setting up the Tx for the new heli. then just the flight where I will do a rough tuning of the engine)
One thing to note is this engine is going to be run a few thousand feet higher in the air (above sea level) than what I have at my house so the tuning is going to be very rough. Basically the higher the altitude the leaner you have to run the engine. You will make about 5% less power per 1000' you go up. So it will make more power here than it will there. Not a big deal though since neither one of us are smack pilots lol.
