Fatdaddyz Fleet

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This is the flyable trio!!!
Several more remain in their hanger awaiting compleation!!!LOL
After all I can only crash so many!!!

I finally figured out to post pix YEA!!!!
Vid... next... Only one so far is the maiden hover of the Smartie!!! And I didn't even need to make any tail rotor adj.
I did however lose the tail altogether when the set screw that holds the grips to the shaft backed off!!!! Yes I got it on film!!!LOL

WOW! Great looking bunch of choppers. Now if I cann only get you to teach me how to load pics. Looking forward to seeing the vid of your ES 600 flight. I'm still working on mine. My ESC,BEC and program card should arrive today. Gonna order my gyro tomorrow, then all I'll need is my batt and charger and I can start getting it all together. Hope I don't mess it up.

Donnie D

All you got to do is go to the section of how-to's and there is a great lesson on it!! You need to do a photobucket acc. and go from there!!!
Cool about your parts!!! What gyro you gonna get? I can't recomend the logitech enough!!! If you got the 109 you gotta go for it. Get the combo, even though the 3100G srevo is a little small for the ES you could always use it later and for 5 bucks you can't go wrong. In fact if you do that and don't want the servo3100G I'll be more than happy to take it off your hands!!! Any if you got the money go for the 2100T. I'd think of using the ESky, cause it worked very good and easy to set up but mine went glitchy after only 3-4 weeks.. so thats 50 out thge window. I still got it but I'm affraid to use it, right now anyway but maybe I'll try it again some other day.
Good luck...
Oh dude!!! I got my roto pod training gear the other day and its soo cool and BIG.... LOL
Got it from Heliproz... I'll get a pix of it soon today and post it!!! Check back!!

For now I'm gonna go with the new Esky HH. How do you like Heliproz? I've been getting most of my stuff from Heli Direct lately, except I'll order my gyro from X-Heli as Heli Direct is out of stock on it. Heli Direct has a great selection of stuff and the fastest shipping of anyone I've ordered from so far.

Donnie D

I gety ALL my stuff from HeliDirect unless they are out of something... Well Good luck with the Esky HHgyro, Its gonna go bad to some degree, You've been to Helifreak ,right? If not go read..

I was under the impression that the new Esky HH was a big improvement over the old one. Which gyro do you like best, how much is it and where do I find it? Fill me in.

Donnie D

Well I've only used the two Esky and the logitech. I did use a Telbee briefly and didn't set it up right and switched to the logitech. My plan is to have all my heli's with the same one. Its the logitech 2100T and 3100G servo combo. On the Esmart I use only the gyro(2100T) because the servo(3100G) is too small. I get the combo for 109 at Heliproz. Everywhere else the combo is aroung 150-160. Gyro only is 104. At heliproz the combo is 109. Don't get me wrong the ESky works really good, but mine went south at 3-4 weeks. I've read it almost always goes bad. But it does work good...
I really like the logitech, it holds like a rcok, spins soooo fast,(but you can slow it way down to your liking. Set up vids arer at......http://store.rcsupersales.net/servlet/-strse-197/Logictech-2100T-High-Performance/Detail
Check it out!!!
The tail stays where you put it!!!! Logitech 2100Tgyro and matching servo 3100G

very nice fleet dude i cant wait to see em when me and nutcaze attempt to come down again lol

Check out the ROTOPOD Training gear for large birds.. This thing is way cool!!![img][/img]

dude that is sweet i might need to get suntin like that for my esmart

Fatdaddy wrote:

Check out the ROTOPOD Training gear for large birds.. This thing is way cool!!!

Holy crap, so thats what you were talking about, does it let traing gear spin around or is the gear staitionary

OH yea it spins!! Its got some tapered rubber gromets also so it can rock in every direction so you can see what the cyclic actions are. You can flip the gromets so it is ridged. The legs also have a second set of holes that would let it set flat. The spring clips that hold the slids work really good. I just had it out to the park to fly. I took it there cause they got a large parking lot. I didn't want it to catch on the ground and flip. It does work really really good.
So now I'm sorta done for now, Battery chargers out to HK and I got no way to charge the 6S's I will try to use 2 3S/2200 however the pinnion came loose again.. Anybody have this happen? Second time.. Yes I used locktite.
I'm gonna file the set screw to a point and try again.

I also got to admit.... I'm scared of this thing!!!!!LOL it is WILD when in the air!!!!

can you take a dremel tool and put a small flat on the shaft where the allen screw seats?

Yea I thought of that but I'm gonna go back to the stock one with two sets. That should do it.

Yo guys.. If you look in the background of these shots you will see where the funfly will be!![img][/img][img][/img][img][/img][img][/img][img][/img][img][/img]

Well done,

Really like the idea for the training gear, what did you use for the rods? Looks like practice golf balls for the balls on the end. Very clever.

Tristar

No No This gear is stuff I got from HeliDirect. The wooden/styrofoam thing I haven't used in quite a while. This set was about 10 bucks and does work well.
Its a little bigger than what came with the HBK2. I'm not sure what the rods are and the balls are some kind of foam

nice pics man

wow, that is a really nice field, ahhh I can't wait for next weekend, lol.

I got to go pick my lil bro up from South Carolina Friday, I'll get back Sat in time for work and the Sunday if the weather is nice, my boss said he'd take me flying in his plane Damn well better be nice weather, I've been bugging him for months to go flying

That is a beautiful site, , wish I could be there, but unfortunatly I got to go to Hawaii and visit my sister-in-law. Sometimes life is soooo rough. Marc you are really going to enjoy going up in a small plane, they are such a blast!

this is what kind of plane he has

Piper Aztec

hey fatdaddy, How about posting some pictures on your frontyard, so we can have some ideas for our 1st annual nuttsy funfly. I really appreciate it.

Ok but what you see in the flight pix is the end of the yard and end of the front yard. The front and end both end at the edge of the field. The rest of the front has trees so there will be no flying there. The back has the pool and ends at the other field we won't be flying there. Also in back is the area where we will set up tents if anyone wants to camp. Hotels are 10-20 min. So there is a nice spot behind my garage for tents.
They say rain for tomorrow but as soon as I can I'll photo all over the place and post them for everyone to see. My yard is 2 acres and the field we will fly is about 27.
More than enough to set up 6-7 zones if we need to. We really could safely have 16-18 helis airborne at any time. Also we'll have a fire pit. 2 large decks for BBQ plenty of parking so we are gonna be good!!! But I'll get pix up soooon!!!

Sounds like the place to be Fatdaddy.
Bet I can hit a tree or land in the pool. Don't matter where I start flying. Landing spot is randon lol

Thank you. I'm 11 hours away from you. But it's going to be worth the drive. I'm from chicago .

SWEET!!! So your coming???!!! This is gonna ROCK!!! Guys like you are what we need to make this work!!! Its one thing to come from nearby but to have someone show up from 900 mi away!!!!! WOW!!! We promise not to let you OR ANYBODY down!
Doesn't matter if you fly FP of CP or NITRO or Ele. Every member is WELCOME!!!
SHOOT,, You don't even have to have a Heli!!!! All you have to be is a member!!!
Well and of course you got to be NUTTSEY!!!!!LOL

Nice fleet Fatdeddy. Gunna be a blast to see you fly them all. Nuttcaze, that the trainer your bringing to the fly in for us all to play with??????

Prel, your gonna win the prize for longest ride to get here.
And I'm hopping to have two more done by then!! I really really wnat to have my EXI done before then, however I wrote up a list the other night of the parts I want to use and I just don't know if I'm gonna have that much spare cash before then, and I'm not gonna cut any corners with that one!!! Its all high end stuff, and of course all the TREX stuff fits it so there is plenty of upgrades that are on the list. Its already all metal head and tail but that hardly scratches the surface of whats out there!! I really hate the idea of using Align parts(I'm not sure why). I think the only real Align parts I'm gonna use is the shaft drive tail kit, thats just soooo cool I can't resist. But at least its a true upgrade!
Tonite I've started to assemble my Xtreme HBK2, I have all the parts cept the head I'm gonna use and my original HBK2 is really tired and needs a total overhaul.. bearings and all so its gonna be semi retired for a while. And I hope to have my GSmart by then too!!

sounds like you got it all worked out bud. I finally got the tail blades and pinion for mine today so gunna play at being builder again tonight lol
I am so hoping me and the wife can get out there. Don't want to fly in but may have to.

Yea I got it all figured out !!! Right? LOL Well If you got to fly you got to fly!!! I just hope you can get out here!! In the event you do fly, you can box up the heli's and ship them out.. That might be easier then trying to get them safely on a plane.
I've heard or read maybe, that guys use hard sided gold club bags to take helis on a plane.. Anyway good luch and if there is anything I can do to help you get here just let me know!!