First flight today with da honey bee

[chris arena]

  I purchased my bee used on EBay. It came in great condition with a pile of spares (I bought more). I am still waiting for the training balls. However, I took the time to tune it per Nutcrazes instructions. I mounted it on my bench (tied it down) and checked the blade trackings (1/4 off) and twisted them back in shape and put a small amount of positive pitch on the paddles and checked the blade looseness in the grips and proceeded to put it down on the concrete garage and like stated just power it up and let it slide around on the floor. Since I did'nt have the training balls on I just took my time and even got a few 4 inch off the ground hovers in 10 to 15 second bursts. No problem.  I did notice that the heli wants to rotate to the right and I had to hold the rudder stick to keep it straight. Other that that. It was super smooth with no viberations to speak of.  After about 5 minutes I shut it down and noticed that one of the stock blades has a 1 inch crack through it just inside of midpoint on the trailing edge about 1/8 inch in. I will change that blade, re trac and try again. I guess that the next step is to adjust the gain on the gyro to staighten the tail rotation problem.

I then went back onto Clearview and immediately flew the Honee bee on it.  I was suprised at how close the two are
in a real time sense. Especially with the new Clearview 5.14 upgrade. However, the real Honeybee wants to take off and scoot away more than the sim.

Will put some more time tuning and scooting around on the floor till my training ball come it.

Chris A

[Gene T]

Nice. Good luck.

[jjh24]

 

[Dozer379]

  Sounds like you got it together to me. 

[chris arena]

I put another pack through it. But this time I took it to my gym with a bunch more room. No training balls yet. However I did get a few good hovers in the 1 minute (at least) range before I started to lose it and got it back down. My biggest problem however, was that the heli continually wanted to rotate counter clock wise and it got worse after about 8 minutes into this pack. Prior to this, I turned off the gain and tried to adjust the proportion on my 4 in 1 and had it turned all the way over and still had significant rotation. I cranked up the gain 1/2 way, then cranked the rudder trim tab all the way over to the right and started the pack with no rotation and little gain twitch. But, by the end of the pack, I was holding a good bit of right stick to keep the heli straight. If it was'nt for this annoying problem, I could have held a much better hover.

I think my tailmotor is dying a slow death. Luckily I ordered a few of them with my training ball along with a spare main motor. They arrived late this afternoon. Hopefull, that should do it and I can get down to the business of keeping this bee in da air! :119: 

[Gene T]

Keep in mind when adjusting the proportion and gain, you have to pull the plug and repower the heli for it to have any effect.