Complete Flybar Head Setup 

Same with me. I hope my lipos still working fine, the voltage is OK

@@mast3rbug Lipos are fairly inexpensive these days.

That is awesome! Hope you are enjoying the hobby once again Cory!

haha, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that watches a specific youtube video over and over again lol. It is absolutely my pleasure and I'm glad that I could help out. I really need to get this helicopter back in the air (yes, I still have it.. kind of). Well, not this helicopter as I did a full power inverted dirt nap that broke everything on the helicopter. But, I did receive a brand new kit and it is back to new, never flown though. Maybe it's time! www.Rc-Help.com

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Hey Lance, it's my pleasure. They definitely look way more complicated than they really are once you do it a few times. www.Rc-Help.com

It's my pleasure, glad I could help out. www.Rc-Help.com

Yeah I love that cable/zip tie trick too. Saved me wasting time and electricity 3d printing one. 😂

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My pleasure NS, I'm glad I could help out! www.Rc-Help.com

Did you say "drones"... I just lost all respect... haha, kidding. This video is old but it does teach the basics of setting up a flybar head. They can be confusing to a newcomer to the hobby but they are still out there. I actually did an updated video to this one which people didn't understand since it is such old tech. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Hope to see you on the forum. www.Rc-Help.com

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Flybar helicopters are a lot of fun to fly, and have a different sound/feel when in the air. I need to get mine back out and do some flying sometime soon.

Hey Jeff, that is awesome! I'm glad I could help out! www.Rc-Help.com

Thank you very much! www.Rc-Help.com

I'll be talking to you on the Forum, I'm Liquid1 over there. Great video collection you've put together.

It's my pleasure Chris. I'm glad I could help out. www.Rc-Help.com

Yeah, I'm fine but what happened to me need never have happened if I had just listened to the safety advice, I know many others ignore it too and people need to know that these accidents really do happen no matter how careful you are, don't take the chance!

Glad I could help out Andy! Thanks for the comment.

Your Welcome!

It's my pleasure Manuel! www.Rc-Help.com

Thanx for a prompt response. Rgds

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I'm not sure I understand your question, but I will try to answer. The servos are attached to a swash that slides up and down the main shaft. There are links that then go from the swash to the washout/mixing arms, and then to the flybar cage and blade grips. The head block (the top piece that holds the blade grips) is mounted directly to the main shaft so it will not move. As for doing it without a pitch gauge, you can, but I would invest in a $3.00 pitch gauge at least.

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RcHelpDotCom thank you very much. I just bout my new ccpm flybared heli and it was not that stable. Correcting the swash plate and the rudder gyro made it super stable . Thanks for this.video

It is absolutely my pleasure!

RcHelpDotCom Sir i have a doubt about nitro rc car. where can we get the nitro fuel for running it . I want to buy a nitro rc car and i am not having any idea about it. If you help me it will be very good.

Just about any hobby shop should carry it. Shipping it is very expensive since it is a hazmat product. If you have a local hobby shop, I would call them up and see if they have any. Start with 20% Nitro.

Sorry for the late reply. 600 and 700's are almost identical on setup so you should be just fine getting it setup if you haven't already. If you need help, you can always post up on our forum, we are always happy to help. www.Rc-Help.com

That is just a homemade flybar lock. It is just a piece of 3/16" acrylic that I drilled a center hole in to secure it to the head block, and then I drilled and tapped two holes for the thumb screws. As for where to get them, I have seen the really cheap ones on hobbyking, but they don't have the screws. Not many people are making these anymore because of the popularity of flybarless now days. www.Rc-Help.com

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Ive set up helis before but its nice to find a few new tips that I never thought of - this video was really useful. I never thought about locking the flybar! Any tips on the best way to do this. Is there any risk of damage? Great video - cheers

The little lock I used in this video I actually made myself. It is just a piece of acrylic, a center hole that bolts where the little tab bolts in, and then two threaded holes for the nylon bolts. There is risk of damage if you over tighten the nylon bolts, but as long as you just touch them ,then everything will be fine. I don't trust those little cheap ones that slide over the head button, I like the ones that can't fall off lol.

This is an awesome idea! I will see what I can do. What tail gyro are you using? www.Rc-Help.com

@@RcHelpDotCom hi sorry for not replying to you for so long but I've not been well with my health the gyro that on my heli is a ICS 360 gyro

sorry, I spoke too soon, got to the end and figured out how to get it right with the swash program and going from positive to negtive on aileron. All is well now. Thanks for the help

Above is just an older style. No real difference other than that.

I have a lot of videos on setting up a helicopter. If you want some faster help, come over and post up on the forum. We have a lot of great members that can pretty much walk you through, step by step, on setting up just about anything. And if I have a video to help out, it will likely be posted so you have some visual aids as well. www.Rc-Help.com

Thank you!

level to the swash plate you want the servos and main shaft makin a 90 degree angle

I do apologize about the delay in replying, I didn't get the notification you had commented. This should work very close to the same setup procedure except for the servo setup. If I remember correctly, the Raptor 30 has a 'Mechanical' swash meaning one servo for elevator, one servo for aileron and one servo for the collective pitch. But linkage setup and pitch settings should be exactly the same. Come on over to our forum if you need more help. I never miss a post over there lol. www.Rc-Help.com

You absolutely do not need a digital pitch gauge to set up a flybar helicopter. In fact, now days when I'm setting up a flybar helicopter, I pull out the old mechanical gauge and I don't even use a flybar locking tool. Will it be exact? No. But for general sport flying it works great. Just eyeball the levelness of the flybar rod and get it as level as you can, and read the reading on the gauge. Make sure to put the gauge as far out on the tip of the blade as you can for a better "by eye" reading. There was a sim that would run on older graphics cards, and you can still find it, but they went belly up. That sim is Phoenix Rc Flight Sim. We used to do Simulator Sundays where we would live stream and invite everyone in to fly with us. But since they are out of business and closed their master server for online sessions, we no longer do this. But you can get the sim on places like eBay and the like, just make sure it comes with a GOOD cable. You MUST have the cable for the sim to work. Other than Phoenix, all of the other sims pretty much need a decent graphics card. So onto the CP helicopter. I know your pain in taking a clone and making it reliable with Align parts. I have a video "How To Properly Build A Clone Helicopter" where I show what I ALWAYS replace on a clone build. And once you get that much money invested in the helicopter, especially after a crash that costs over $100 or more (depending on helicopter size), your nerves play a roll in not allowing you to progress anymore. I know, I have been there and it is very hard to push through it. You say you have an mSR and that is the helicopter that taught me how to fly. I could fly in the sims but not IRL until I purchased the mSR. I could crash that little guy and just flip it back over and keep going. It was awesome when I could finally fly a helicopter. And all of that transferred to a CP helicopter for the most part. Mostly orientation though. And the sound of a CP, well that is a whole other level of nervousness lol. So you are looking at getting a CP helicopter to take the place of a sim. I want to start with saying, you are going to crash and it will still break parts. But the parts are far cheaper than a 450. I did this exact step just as I did with the mSR but this time I purchased the mCP-X, the old version, the first version lol. It was a learning experience and in the first week, I knew the parts that I needed to stock up on. Blades, tail booms and main blade grip linkages. All were very cheap compared to a 450. Once I had a few of those parts on hand, I just kept trying new things, kept flying and eventually it pushed me past that nervousness of the expensive helicopter because that mCP-X reacts faster than a 450, and when I went to the 450, I felt more in control. Now days, there are WAY more options for CCPM helicopters in the micro ranges. Back then, the mCP-X was it for me. But now everywhere you look there are companies building them. Just don't go crazy with something like the Align 150x. I have that one too and it is a lot of fun, but a little more expensive to crash and WAY more powerful. But if you want a name brand, and don't mind paying slightly more, the 150x is a great helicopter IMO. But be warned there are some out there with gyro issues (align, gyro issues? Nah! lol) I love my little 150x. I know this was very long, in fact this is probably one of the longest replies I have sat down and wrote. But I wanted to let you know, you are not alone in feeling nervous about flying after a crash. We have all been there. And what helped me is just what you are wondering about. Micros can help out for some people. Hopefully you are one of those people as I was. If this helped, come over to the forum and post up your experiences. Hope to see you there. www.Rc-Help.com

First thing I would do is get a sim if you have never flown collective pitch helicopters before. They are incredibly hard to fly until you get some muscle memory. From the sim, an indoor fixed pitch helicopter will help get that muscle memory. From there, there are hundreds of fantastic helicopter brands out there for collective pitch such as SAB, Gaui, Align and others. I would not suggest going with the clone brands unless you like to tinker. www.Rc-Help.com

RcHelpDotCom Thanks. That was fast. I just bought a used hk450gt heli with custom parts and with a lot of spare parts. Because I don't want to crash the heli on the first flight, I just want to check that everything is set ok. Thanks for help. Lp

RcHelpDotCom Tnx. I will. I just realized that I need to do it again, because throttle stick on my dx8 wasn't calibrate to the middle. I saw this when I realized that my zero pitch is 5 degrees +. I moved the stick in the middle of the process because alarm on the tx went on and I just lowered the throttle... 😁 I'm already scared because I'm used to fly planes and drones and now this middle throttle thing...

RcHelpDotCom Yep. Always in Horizon mode. Just looking for a racing drone to buy. Or to build one. Head on heli is ok now, but now is a tail rotor & gyro (HK401B) on a list... I just almost messed everything when I followed some guide for similar gyro and dx6i transmitter. Do you have video for thus too? 😁

RcHelpDotCom Oh, I didn't know that it's so bad. Probably that's why it doesn't correct rotor blades correctly. It was already on the heli. Well, I guess I will need to wait with the flight. Thanks for your help again.

And this guy connected digital servo on this crap...

many thanks for your valued advice i understand now yes all i want to do is learn the basic hovering and small hops etc

RcHelpDotCom they 4 servos is for they cyclic and one is for they tail and the other one is for they throttle

RcHelpDotCom is there a way that you can email me or email so I can send you pictures of what I have my email address is joshuahowell45@gmail.com please

You will adjust your pitch in your Pitch Curves in your Tx. Once you get 0 at mid stick, and +-12º, you will not adjust the helicopter from there unless you have an issue. Set your pitch curve to 46-48-50-75-100 and you should have a slight amount of negative pitch at low stick. Hope this helps.

@@RcHelpDotCom so in Futaba Terms, in TX, Normal Pitch curve is -30 (bottom stick) ,-10,+10 (mid stick),+50,+80 (full throttle) is that correct ?

Okay, I take it Futaba uses a -100 to +100 scale? If so, 0 will be mid stick so the third number should be 0. I would only go to about -10 on low stick and the last two are going to be linear. So, if you have a -100 to +100 scale, your pitch curve should be -10 -05 00 +50 +100. If you don't want full collective pitch at 12º, then adjust the flybarless settings. It's just easier to stick with a linear curve than it is to start putting weird pitch curves in your Tx. Come on over to the forum and post up, there are quite a few people there with Futaba Tx that can help out a lot more than I can. www.Rc-Help.com

Nice! Thank you.

@@RcHelpDotCom Going to fly my 700 nitro, but looking for a good pitchcurve throttlecurve video. Just bought a dx9.

pitch curve I always have linear on a nitro (and electric for that matter if I'm not doing a beginner video). The reason for this is I always know where my pitch is, and is going to be. I know when I go from normal to IU1 or 2, if the rpm is going up, it's going to gain altitude. If the throttle is going down (IU1 to normal), then I know I"m going to need to increase pitch to keep it in the air. For throttle curve, this is going to depend on your setup and if you are running a governor, which I HIGHLY SUGGEST! In that case, the manual for your governor will tell you where to set your throttle values for a given head speed. The Ikon2 governor (and Ikon1 for that matter) will usually be something like 30 60 90 or there abouts and you will set a definite head speed in the gyro software, and it will take over and give you that head speed depending on where your throttle curve is. Hope this makes sense.

I'm not aiming for 3d with the constant headspeed. Just sportflying. I know what you want with the governer🙂. Just normal mode and for autorotation.

Actually, for sport flying, the governor will help there as well. But if you can't or don't want to run it, set your pitch curve to linear for all 3, then set your throttle curve to a v curve. Just make sure that mid stick is the lowest point. You can do this in normal but it's best to only use normal to get the head speed up and then switch into IU1. The last thing you want is the engine surging trying to stick with your throttle stick. This can load up the engine and it will also cause the tail to kick around a bit.

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