Gregor99
Elite Veteran
Location: Western Wa
| All good points there Tryan. There are two things that I will add
1) If you follow the RADD training, he has you go through start up procedure, every time. Don't get lazy, do it every time. My startup procedure includes checking the radio (on, and throttle off, or throttle hold). Once the power up proceedure is done, I check the movement of the swash servos before applying throttle.
2) One of the advantages of higher end radios is that it will not power any of the servos or ESC unless its recieving a signal from the Tx. I have a Spektrum so I'll speak to its features, I suspect Futaba and JR have very similar features.
The Spektrum has two failsafe features. The first is that if the Rx looses the signal from the Tx it goes into pre-set fail safe mode. I have mine set for 0 pitch and 0 throttle. That makes it impossible get into trouble with your startup or shut down proceedure. The other failsafe is that every profile in the radio is coded to a specific Rx. That prevents the issue of forgetting that your Rx was set to one of your other helis, a plane or your SIM. |
