Morning,No wind here this morning, did my pre flight check, all was going well then lost my front prop mid flight, the Ardu fell out of the sky from about 8'. I did damage to 2 props a motor and a motor mount, no more flying today.Need to keep getting up, much need flying time required before I put my camera on the Ardu.Hope your all having a good flying day.
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I am in the same position. If I can trust the bird, I can put a camera on it. I had the same thing happen this weekend. I am running a hexa and was running fine for about a half hour, then at about 60' alt, it flipped and went into the ground head first. The prop did not break in-flight, it spun off the top nut. Now, I am back in the repair business.
The fact that I was flying around for 30 minutes says that everything was fine, however I don't check prop tightness everytime I land. My problem with the setup is that 3 of the 6 blades are turning clockwise and all of the threads to tighten the props are tightened with clockwise rotation. That means that the 3 turning in CCW are not in much danger of coming loose from rotational forces. The CW props are all in danger of this happening.. I hate to put lock tight on the threads, but maybe that is what I have to do. I would rather have a CCW tightening top nut on those props.
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Kristian,
I am in the same position. If I can trust the bird, I can put a camera on it. I had the same thing happen this weekend. I am running a hexa and was running fine for about a half hour, then at about 60' alt, it flipped and went into the ground head first. The prop did not break in-flight, it spun off the top nut. Now, I am back in the repair business.
The fact that I was flying around for 30 minutes says that everything was fine, however I don't check prop tightness everytime I land. My problem with the setup is that 3 of the 6 blades are turning clockwise and all of the threads to tighten the props are tightened with clockwise rotation. That means that the 3 turning in CCW are not in much danger of coming loose from rotational forces. The CW props are all in danger of this happening.. I hate to put lock tight on the threads, but maybe that is what I have to do. I would rather have a CCW tightening top nut on those props.
Anyone have this issue