Safety:) Safety:) Safety:)

[Graham Lawrie]

I consider myself to be very safety conscious, it goes with my job and every day starts with me giving a safety share at work.

As i am off sick, and head is a bit fuzzy, i tried a wee bit of gyro set up today. Now not an excuse, but I am not 100%.

I went up to my cave, removed both sets of blades from my 600, connected the laptop and started to set up my Spartan Vortex VX1e. I could not understand why the previous set up had lost the settings, but it has been a while since i last looked at it. All went well, and at the final stage servos were not right.

So i am straddling the 600 for a closer look, sure enough needed to reverse servos, throttle hold on, i stepped back, got a bit dizzy, must have flipped throttle hold and it spooled up:(

I had my pyjamas on which are baggy, the tail rotor with no blades on caught the material and wound round it. Quick shut down, throttle hold and two stripped umbrella gears:(

Fixed now and set up:) You can never be to careful:) Oh and the training shoes were only £13:)

[danhampson]

Good job you didn't have the blades no mate it would have made quite a mess.
fly hard, stay safe.

[Lee]

Very lucky escape.

[Graham Lawrie]

Baggy trousers:)

[Marius]

The main thing is that you DID remove the blades, which often isn't the case Had they been on there, the outcome would not have been a pretty one.

[Graham Lawrie]

Yes Marius:) I always remove and sometimes disconnect the motor wires:)

[cml001]

Wow...

[Graham Lawrie]

Off the back of this i have joined FPV UK, for £15/year you get £5Million public liability insurance when flying As there is only 9 months leftin their year it cost me £9:) The way i fly it is peace of mind for a flyaway:)

[murankar]

Lucky it was just pajammas. That's why I like my castle ESC lock. Between throttle hold and my ESC lock I have 2 layers of protection. My third layer if I need it would be to undo wires.

[Tony]

Wow, just read this... Hope that's a mistake you never make again Graham, we all learn by them. Personally I never bother removing blades as I always, always remove 2 motor wires... I'm probably the worst pilot on this forum, ok Graham on this planet... Haha, but I've never had an accident like that. Take care mate..

[Graham Lawrie]

I always remove the blades:) on the larger helis i normally remove the motor wires as they are so easy to get to:) On this occasion i did not do it as it was just a 10 minute umbrella change. I then was just putting it on the lazy susan to see how the Vortex set up went.

If i was wearing jeans the tail rotor holders would have skiffed off the harder material. It was just soft baggy jammies:)

[Tony]

That's why I always disconnect the motor wires, because there so easy to get to and you know for certain that thing isn't going to spin up regardless of what your doing... It's a lesson learnt mate..