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Hey you forgot to put it in the 2 or 3rd speed before you took off from the ground with your helicopter you’ll need to buy another one you had your helicopter set for indoors only
This happened to me with this rc helicopter 🚁:/ it worked fine for the first 5 flights. Then my sixth time flying it last week it took off and wouldn’t let me control it and fell into a tree.
I, for one, am glad you posted the vid. It does look cool (and I’ve been looking into Helicopters recently) but I’m glad I know that this one may be a fly off.
If you get one that's not defective, it's a great little flyer!.... but if you do decide to get one, it's like playing Chinese roulette, 😂🙄 Good luck my friend and Happy New Year.🎄
I've been flying mine for about a month now. Never bothered with auto take off or land button. It's actually a good flying machine. My only issue with it is the battery taking 3 hours and 15 minutes to charge and only 15 to 20 minute flight time. Thank you for showing me what happens with the auto take off, at least now I know to never use that function. BTW I hot glued mine too.
What you experienced is Spot On...I bought the red and white version Fall 2023. During the winter, i fly at an indoor dome. Flew it a couple of dozen times, and it flew great. Very steady and nimble movement, and looks very scale. I also had the chance to fly it outdoors late Fall 2023, and while it didn't zoom away like yours did, I tried seeing how high it would go. When it got about 150' up, I then tried to bring it down, and it took FOREVER, to the point that if there was any kind of wind, I may have lost it in the surrounding trees. Happened a couple of times, and I realized I could not let it get that high for fear of losing it. I noted this in my online review on the Banggood site, where I bought it from, and they actually responded with an apology and indication that they would look into the matter, but no offer to repair/replace it and no further contact since then. In Spring, 2024 I flew it again at the dome, and it suddenly started pulsing and would not get enough speed to even take off, as if there was an issue with the speed control. Did online research and found nothing on the problems I experienced, but I did find an online RC message board where several people posted about the same issue you had, where it just jumped up and kept going until they hit the "kill" button and it came crashing down. Appparently, this is a not-uncommon issue. I tried contacting RC Era directly by e-mail but they would not respond - apparently, everything from RC Era is sold "as-is" with no support whatsoever. I swore off RC Era after that. However, BG just had a sale that was too good to pass up on the RC Era Bell 206 helicopter that i just bought. I figured i will give them one more chance. Just received it and have not flown it yet. If that one experiences glitches like this MD500, I will forever swear off ANYTHING from RC Era.
Reminds me of the COX gas helicopter. Gas it up, start it, adjust the air fuel needle, let go, then chase it down wherever it went. The fun days of old.
It may have been the transmitter was faulty. I was having trouble with mine also. The transmitter wasn't binding to the heli so I tried another one that looked similar. If you bought the little grey military or coast guard looking heli it basically has the same transmitter minus the emergency stop button and it's black. So I tried it and bingo!!...it worked. It flies great. Although I had to use another transmitter I had no other issues.
I got one 2 months ago and it performs perfectly. A joy to fly! Then i pursuaded my colleque to buy one too and he had exactly the same bug as you just got. He was inside his living room so has some whitening to redo now. He burned his controller as smoke came out as it hung in the curtains. He is in contact with BangGood for a replacement now. Lets see how the next one does... It seems to me that some helis have the optical flow sensor connected the wrong way around making it shoot to the moon without alt.hold kicking in 😢
Wow!! I got the red and white one (no missiles 😉) and so far I've only flown one battery on it. Thankfully it didn't do that! But I did find that it didn't respond well to the controls being touched during auto takeoff. If I did try to control it, for example yaw it left or right, as soon as it came out of auto takeoff, it would quickly snap itself back to the original orientation before I had full control of it. After realizing what was happening, I just let it finish its auto takeoff and then it behaved just fine when I started controlling it.
So I did have the red Coast Guard model, and it did do exactly what this one did only I was able to do it three times with mine, the first time in auto and the second and third time in manual takeoff mode, and the auto land would not work, only the emergency kill button worked all three times...🙄
I got mine from Ali and its the army green. Assembly went well, I tossed the tools it came with as they are terrible material and strips very easily. Best investment was a micro repair set with magnetic electric driver made assembly fast and easy. I tested all 3 speed modes. Advance power up and down to bind (beeps), auto take off and land. Manual start and take off, point the two sticks down and out to start the motor. Hover to trim and fly around. I landed by getting close to the ground and then keeping the throttle down to land and shut motor off. I re-calibrated by putting all sticks down and to the left (beeps). Manual start again and advanced throttle to take off seemed to work better so my start ups always contain a calibration before each flight. Indoors mode 1 works great but I find myself always flying on mode 3. Trim is into the wind with 1 or 2 clicks forward. only issue is you can not get it back into the box with landing skid and rocket pods on. One will have to mod the pods for quick removal and mod the box to fit with skids on. So far so good I'm having lots of scale flights with this little bird making me look like a heli pro. It saddens me to watch and hear about others having fly away issues. I hope the sellers can make it right for them.
Mine has been awesome as well. I have the army camouflage one and I’m even going to install some simple navigation lights with a small 1s battery and Velcro it underneath to give it an even more scale look flying at night.
What a pity of such a good looking heli. Agreed with some others: would be interesting to see how the seller reacts to this mishap (they would want video-evidence / check!), how they handle everything, and how the copter actually flies once you get a properly working replacement. That is something you hardly ever do: revisiting something that didn't perform as it should in the video and follow up on the after-sales etc.
I bought the same model for 3 weeks. It flew normal and easily control. But in yesterday's flight, it performed exactly your situation as a rocket far up to the sky and not under control. It almost flew away and lost. I quickly ran to follow it and tried to control it by touching the landing button and lastly it descended and under my control. I think it might influence by cold weather. After warming up, it performed normal.
Holy moly! I'm glad I read your comment. I was prepared to buy a. B. N. F. Version as I still have a couple of batteries and controller from MY disastrous flight. Now. I feel, until they (RC ERA) realize there IS a problem and it/others are corrected , the best anyone can expect out of this thing currently it seems , is maybe a couple of flights and retire it as a ''shelf queen''.
I bought mine in November last year, maiden and thankfully until now nothing dreadful happens to the C189 MD500. But the obvious observation is the heli will drop in altitude when it does the clockwise turn. So make sure the heli is higher from the ground when doing the clockwise turn. Did not use the landind button. I throttle down manually until it lands and the motor cuts off.
Thank you for always being so honest and up front about products. This video could have saved a child from receiving a heartbreaking Xmas or birthday gift. Your videos are always entertaining and informative. Love you guys.
I can't say if anyone that is experiencing this "runaway" problem is doing anything wrong, or if the copters are defective units. But, I will say that I have two of these helicopters and they are the best scale flying copters that I have. They are quick and responsive, yet stable. Always use the third speed setting outdoors in order to overcome wind. This copter does not have optical-flow for position hold, but it does have a barometric-pressure sensor for altitude hold. The reviews on Banggood are overwhelmingly positive.🙂
Update to my comment above......one of mine finally had an uncontrolled flyaway. It took off at full throttle when I started the motor with the sticks down and out. There were many flights on this copter so this can happen anytime. I made the necessary repairs, and held the copter to the ground with a small board when I started the motor. It started at idle, I removed the board, took off, and it flew properly. Flying this is a risk, such a shame as it is a great flying helicopter. RCSaylors did nothing wrong!
Honestly, I’ve watched 10+ videos about this helicopter, and had considered it, but this is the first video I’ve seen showcasing problems of it. The honesty is refreshing.
Yeah man, the same thing happened to me with one my brother gave me (red coast guard).... It did exactly what this one did.., but three times in a row, first time in auto & second & third time in Manual mode, and I tried every button, including auto land and everything but the only button that would work reliably was the "oh shit" button😂
I would like to see what the company will do, and if they replace it, how quickly they do, and what the replacement does. How much trouble it was to get it replaced would also be nice to know. Every company has one or more that slip past QC, heck even nasa has done it. So i wont trash talk them for seeing this kind of thing. The measure of the company and its products, is how they stand behind it. Really want to know how this turns out, please do an update regardless of how it does. if you get a new one, or not, and so on.
I have 2 of these (a black version and a green version). The green version works great but the black one (after multiple success flights) did the same thing twice. First time went up about 20 feet but I was able to land safely by pressing the auto landing button multiple times. The second time it did exactly the same as in the video (kept on going up and up) then it lost power and crashed. Bent the main shaft and broke landing skid. Both times I calibrated the gyro and didn’t use auto takeoff so definitely a defect affecting many of these after hearing similar comments. Too bad because when it works properly it’s a fun helicopter.
I can so relate to your story after having it happen three times myself the second and third time taking off manually, and yes, the third time there were a few seconds where I had control, but they were fleeting seconds...👍🏻🎄
@@joethompson2910 It’s good to know I’m not the only one who had this issue. Hopefully Rc ERA can fix this problem because I really like the helicopter. I just got replacement parts for my crashed black one so hopefully it won’t do that again. It seems like a lot of the comments think it’s a controller issue so I’m using the second one I have.
I have two, probably my all time favorite RC Heli. Never had any such problem as you did. Be sure to calibrate first on level ground. Can also be bound to Multi-Protocol transmitters like T16S Radiomaster with EDGE TX. There is channel named Andrej Sturm that has some great info.
I think you are supposed to set the GPS while it's on the ground pull both sticks to the bottom left corner, and you should get the taillight to blink confirming it is set.
No GPS but you can calibrate the Gyro which I did three times with mine and all three times It still flew up like a rocket. everyone keeps saying that it was probably the auto takeoff button but it still did it taking off manually two times for me..
Thanks for the candid videos. I enjoy seeing "the truth" as most of the audience fly's and experiences the same kind of quirks. I feel bad every time I am at the field and things go bad. I KNOW poop will happen as the old adage says "if you fly them, you will need to rebuild them..." . We all know that, but it is still a gut punch of second guessing when the day ends with damage to the bird...
I had a drone with auto takeoff I paid $400 here in Australia, I tried the auto takeoff it went straight up like yours did but then started to fly off into the distance but I did try the return home button but that didn’t work and who knows where that drone ended up and I haven’t tried to buy another again. Love your honesty. Merry Christmas Saylor Family 🎄
I had the same thing happened three times in a row, and I did try hitting the autoland button and in fact, I tried everything, and the only button that worked reliably was the "oh shit" button
@@ordinaryfan6990 I don't think that will solve anything because I had it happen twice just manually taking off… If you get a good one you're fine ...if you don't, it's depressing, dangerous, (and expensive). Good luck my friend and have a great Christmas & New Year!🎄
I commented on here previously but anyways I crashed mine,my fault,then ordered parts and fixed it myself which was easier than I thought it would be,it now flies again etc,there easy to fix and get parts for.
That happened to me to! After signaling it to go down several times it finally responded and came down. My fix was to get another transmitter! That worked for me. Try it
I had the same exact problem and Im gonna try what you suggested .... When I was in car audio many years ago, I had a Chinese couple come in looking for an equalizer for their car stereo, and when they asked where the piece of equipment (Blaupunkt) was made, we flipped it over and it said "Made in China"...and they said "no thank you..., China make cheap stuff, we know...we from China"...😂😂 Ive always gotten a laugh outta that..
@@RCCopterLove Yeah, they have some issue, and its too bad because everything else I heard & watched about it was good... but yeah, these places like Banggood and Makerfire... good luck getting customer service out of em...just pissin $160 away... quite irritating... I hope DJI is better to deal with, though the quality of my Mini 4 Pro is MUCH better...
What the hell was that?!?! 🤣🤣🤣 I MIGHT have been interested in it if I could bind my own radio to it. To be honest, that held up A LOT better than I thought it would from that high altitude crash. I expected to see the fuselage totally obliterated and the main rotor blades completely broken.
You are going to need to forget about helicopters because it seems like you are cursed with the😁... Good video, though!... Thumbs-up...Greetings from Douglas, Arizona 🌵🦠🦠🇵🇷Merry Christmas and happy New Year 2024...
Simple, none of the components in your helo from a defective production batch.. If you think western manufacturers take shortcuts, it's nothing compared to Chinese manufacturer culture. It's not uncommon for laborers working 10-12 hrs,6 days per week at low pay. Sleep deprivation and fear of harsh reprisals are not conducive to consistent production quality. Ever notice that even expensive new products are hit or miss? Or if they do initially work, fails prematurely?
I just purchased one Jan 2025 and mine is doing the same thing; I was spared disaster because I secured the landing skids down so it would no take off. It started up just fine, it ran fine (sound was low RPM) as soon as I moved the throttle a tine bit upwards the RPM rocked to max and stayed there even after I moved the throttle lever downwards. Is there a fix for this?
It’s been a year and many folks have experienced this flyway issue. Lots of theories as to what part fails and why. The bottom line is to be prepared for it to happen if you have an original version. The newer versions all had improved or updated FCs and ESCs. It’s also probably the component that fails.
My rule is ..I never fly it , unless I'm prepared to lose it. This was an exception however Maiden flight.. and I was NOT prepared. Still makes me sick to think about it...
@@ToyManFlyer1100 talking to the factory engineer I found out that majority of the ones in the market are now with new components. Only time and luck I guess. The fix is not a big deal and the cost of the helis also manageable at less that $150.
@@Flight6677 .... Oooohh, okay...I guess it's like when a restaurant is opened...You gotta let ev'ry body else go in and eat all that Factory cleaning chemicals off the new grills, pots and pans...Depending on how much business they have and who knows how they order...I guess I need to order one 'round Christmas time...Hopefully all the bad ones are out of the system....Was thinking about getting one and tie a long string to it and that way you can control the altitude and not have a "Rocket Man To the Moon " experience...IDK....🙄🙄🙄🙄
According to my experience the first batch was produced in late Spring 2023. When I ordered mine in mid-october I received several messages from Banggod about a delay in production due to high demand. Finally it shipped mid-november. Mine flew for three days with no problem until it suddenly went out if control...
Hello Mr. Rc Sailor. I recently purchased an MD 500 C189 helicopter. The maiden voyage was a disaster. Using the one touch takeoff feature the helicopter rose up to approximately 100' ? It rapidly flew to the right with no response on the joysticks at all ? After having to use the auto stop function it crashed to the ground with a minimum of damage luckily. I've watched the reviews with a broken heart. I'm an elderly man on SSD salary. $250 isn't a lot of money, however it is for me. I'm trying to break into the hobby I'm sure your getting a lot of comments on this particular products ? Any advice would be 6:46 productive ? Thank you !
After about 6 flights in my living room, It happened to me🤯!! That heli stuck to my ceiling, looked like it was snowing in my living room😂😂!! I'll never fly it again with those electronics in it, just gonna put the XY-F1 tronics in it to make a full collective "FULL CONTROL" bird.
I’m listening… Here’s the situation, I just bought this copter. Same issue as here in the video. I’m returning it for a refund. However, I have until February to return it. How are you planning on doing this? What specific electronics would I need to purchase? Just a new receiver? I would like to be able to bind it to my Spectrum Dx6i. How are you planning on calibrating the gyro? I have 30 years RC experience with planes mostly but did have a 6 channel Nexus .30 years ago. Just getting back into copters now. I’d love to get this bird converted over to being able to bind it to my Dx6i but I didn’t know it was possible but you make a good point about swapping the electronics!! 👍👍👍 This copter looks amazing and I’d love to get it going if ya could tell me exactly what I need to buy and if it’s even possible to bind it to a Dx6i with a new receiver ? Idk how the gyro would work with that? My thoughts are, I’ll buy what ya think will work, try it in my copter I have before I return it. If it works, I’ll exchange the copter for a new one and do the conversion on the new bird. Let me know what your thinking!! 👍👍👍
That spy drone was RC ERA too. This is a shame - but as you said, it MIGHT be just a coincidence. It's a cool looking helicopter... Looks like one you see in the A-TEAM show.
I just got this for Christmas. After watching your video, and another guy who had the same problem, I decided to take extra precautions. I used a leather belt, ran it through the skids, screwed it to the cover of my firepit, which is heavy marine plywood. And then started the copter. I would have had the same problem. It tried to launch up, very fast and no response to down elevator, until after 2 minutes or so. Also the head gear, or rotor seemed wobbly. I have no damage to the unit, it was new out of box. And thankfully from a few videos, I knew it might have this problem. So I guess this defective unit may make a great shelf queen. Atleast for now until I find out if there is a fix for this.
I’ve seen others fly this and say how great it is but it’s good to know what else can happen. There went $200 😣 You’re lucky Abbey is so great! No way my wife would have been so calm!
I am glad you review this stuff, so we can avoid wasting money on those kind of products. Call it what it is, trash. Entertaining video anyways. I do appreciate your videos, I always have. Thankyou Nate.
Yeah that description pretty well covered it I spend extra to get a three batteries I remained optimistic for a while that I can buy at least buy a BNF version another hundred and twenty dollars minimum I might as well spend the difference and get a complete DJI which is only 300 now the whole experience was just heartbreaking I truly expected more from RC era
You're not the only 1 with uncontrollable helo fly away. My 1st Blade 230S (v1), in reference to transmitter response, always flew flawlessly. I enjoyed it so much that after 1 year and many flight hours later, I bought another one as a backup. The 2nd helo must have had defective receiver. On the maiden flight after routine binding, "happy dance" self calibration and joysticks testing,I successfully did a scale takeoff. All was well until 15 ft. away all transmitter inputs ceased to have any effects,zero.. Not even throttle hold, absolutely no switch, button or stick had any effect. I could only helplessly watch in shock as it slowly continued climbing and got carried by the breezes into the woods. Never found it. Contacted horizon hobby but as usual they're useless, it's always "pilot error ". Congrats horizon Hell. I lost $300 but you lost thousands in larger scale helos, boats, cars,buggies, trucks,planes, drones, high end chargers, parts & accessories.
hi Folks sorry about the heli looks great too but it shot off like a bullet!!! wow.. subscribed and joined too great show guys keep it up (excuse the helicopter pun)
Doh! Definitely not a case of pilot error on that crash. BTW, your holiday card and stickers arrived in the mail today. Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you and yours! All the best for the New Year!
3:44 most UA-camrs know how to fly what they are buying… please read the directions and you will find your answer. Maybe don’t hit stop when you are in the air when the land button is the obvious choice.
@@TheRcSaylors Can you not detect any remote feeling of disappointment?? I feel bad because people including myself cannot get a legitimate review and flight of a BEGINNER helicopter.
I guess your deaf the auto take off sent it to space and then it stop replying to input so unless he wanted to go chasing it till it died the shut down was the only option maybe go buy it fly it and make your own UA-cam channel
Awesomebob knows everything!! Maybe you should change your name to iknoweverythingbob. Most UA-camrs??? I been into RC for over 30 years and probably would have done the same thing. How do you know he could have done all these things. Have you ever flown a Rc helicopter or Airplane?? Do you make videos of RC’s. I think you just watch cartoons and post them on UA-cam. Get some experience before you make comments. I don’t think you’re that awesome!!
I (kinda) feel like a portion of the Blame belongs to me. (I commented that Nate had "one of the best camera operators" out there; so what ELSE could he do but Offer her a wee Challenge, just as quickly as he could!)
I had a similar issue, it took off but controls didn't listen, no way to get it to come down, did a slow climb and drifted to side with no way to counteract. I was fighting the cpu, can only land with emerg stop. Happened 1 out of 5 or so flights.Broken, returned to Amazon.
Try and get your hands on another one of these, obviously you had a defective one. I would like to see a review from you with one that's working correctly. I've seen several video reviews from other people, and it flew just fine.
Nice Scale replica of the Hughes 500 , shame it lasted all of 25 seconds , there must be some parameters that needed to be set up or it a bug in the auto takeoff programming. Hopefully the manufacturer sends you a replacement and we can see your skills on this Hughes.. Cheers , an Merry Christmas to you , Abby the little one ..
Well people, the fly away finally happened to me this weekend. only thing I was able to do was hit the stop button. I walked away with broken blades a tail boom and stripped main gears. The landing skids and rocket pods took a beating as you can see the impact stress marks but managed to stay intact. I did the usual upon start up bind, calibrate and engine start. I throttled up and boom she shot straight up no controls. I did a few ground tests with the stripped gears and I held onto the heli with 1 hand while I got the rotors to spool up and hit the throttle and it went full throttle on me while holding it in my hand. Hitting the stop button was all that could be done to stop it. I did this a few more times and out of 10 attempts I was able to get 1 good one being able to control and reduce throttle. There was 1 other time during the testing it went full throttle on it's own after spool up it didn't give me time to hold onto the tail boom and I immediately hit stop a few feet in the air. I think I got around 10 consecutive great flights with this before this happened. I really thought I lucked out and got a good one. Such a shame I was really enjoying flying this but I did have a weird feeling I even made sure to slap on a return address label on it just in case and wallah now I've become one of the fly away members.
Gee that's a bit of bad luck there Nate I have this heli but never used the auto take off and after watching this I don't think il venture there I personally don't like auto take off with anything purely for that reason I like to be in control all the time but I have had issues with it could always control it but a few time it would not stop and had to use the emergency stop I also had to trim the heli as it would violently pull to the left when you take your hand of the stick another thing I found is it doesn't like wind or even a light breeze if your not careful it will get away on you mine flys ok now the only thing I'm disappointed on I did not get the little compact antenna so I had to make one 😂 it is a good heli I think you just got a Friday afternoon special just around quitting time where all care gos out the window cause it's time to go home then come Monday morning "yeah this is right to go" I've had my fair share of those . Again sorry you had a fail on that heli it's just one of those things cheers🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁
Thats depressing to me preacher, I have one of those on order and you’re the first that I’ve heard that happen to. I feel bad for you and I hope I don’t get that unlucky. I know they sell replacement parts, any possibility it could be repaired?
i'm curious did you calibrate the gyro before take off? I know you mentioned up/down on the throttle. Both sticks lower left to calibrate the gyro, wonder if that would make any difference in your maiden.
@@EJ-74 So on my second attempt, it did pretty much exactly the same thing it went up and it kept going up to about 60 feet and the only control that would work was the kill switch... Now the third time I tried it I did get a little bit of control for maybe three or four seconds and it did not shoot up into the stratosphere, but I was able to keep it at about three or 4 feet off the ground before control was lost & just quit working, except for that emergency override button that just kills it...and by the way I did calibrate the Gyro every time just in case.
@@joethompson2910 Dang that's sad, looks awesome but that doesn't mean jack if it's uncontrollable, I wonder if it would be worth changing out the electronics? I know that's ridiculous to have to do to a brand new helicopter but it looks like it's the only option at this point... I have a couple older model helicopters that need new electronics, if you happen to know of a good deal on some replacement electronics let me know....
I got 10 good flights out of mine and really enjoyed it, then mine did the same runaway climb thing. I hit the Land button, that brought it down softly, then I had to do Emergency Stop to get the blades to stop spinning. Reset the gyros, had a good flight but I could tell something was off. Next flight a few days later with one push of the Takeoff button it goes full throttle and full forward stick until it tumbles on the ground and destroys itself. So that's 10 flights for $158 dollars. Was it worth $15.80 per flight? Don't think so, not buying ERA ever again.
This bastard, whatever he plays with, it breaks and falls, making other people not dare to buy it, thinking that the toy is bad, but it is him who plays with it badly. This destructive idiot, the toy company should sue him.
Hey Nate, if you want some practice with small hardware, try putting together an Orlandoo Hunter vehicle! I love them! (My therapist says I'm making progress)!
I ordered two, one for me, the other as a gift, I tried both, the first flew without problem, the second left just on takeoff, complete loss of the radio signal, it went up without the slightest reaction to the commands, and he left, without me being able to do anything, I just hope he didn't hurt anyone!! I asked Bangood for a replacement and we'll see what they have to say about that!!!
Wow,.... the only control that worked for me was the emergency shut off switch and then it just fell out of the sky like a rock and after three times it was still somewhat OK so I'm gonna try mine with a different transmitter and see what happens… Sorry you had that problem friend..
DITTO...but l only got one , and although had F, L,& R control but NO rev. or Down ...ES didn't either ...just flew away for 14 ish min. somewhere ....everyone DUCK !
Mine just went full throttle, full forward cyclic until it crashed. Worked for about a dozen flights before the crash. Bought a replacement board, did the same thing. Junk.
@@Donisio59 I replaced the receiver, I've ordered the governor board, fingers crossed it will solve the problem. It really is a beautiful little helicopter, hope I can get it flying again.
This channel is my "Gold Standard" for RC buying choices. You just saved me a couple hundred bucks by posting this as I was planning to buy one of these following Christmas.
I've read many of these "malfunktion comments". 🤔Could the radio control become disturbed in some locations by some other radio signals, so that the rc helicopter gets kinda mixed up input?
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Bummer, but, hey, it is what it is, it was some what entrusting, and man the bugger took off.
Hey you forgot to put it in the 2 or 3rd speed before you took off from the ground with your helicopter you’ll need to buy another one you had your helicopter set for indoors only
This happened to me with this rc helicopter 🚁:/ it worked fine for the first 5 flights. Then my sixth time flying it last week it took off and wouldn’t let me control it and fell into a tree.
I had the same problem but only after the 5th flight at a different Sea level. Maybe you have to do the calibration again first!?
I, for one, am glad you posted the vid. It does look cool (and I’ve been looking into Helicopters recently) but I’m glad I know that this one may be a fly off.
If you get one that's not defective, it's a great little flyer!.... but if you do decide to get one, it's like playing Chinese roulette, 😂🙄
Good luck my friend and Happy New Year.🎄
I've been flying mine for about a month now. Never bothered with auto take off or land button. It's actually a good flying machine. My only issue with it is the battery taking 3 hours and 15 minutes to charge and only 15 to 20 minute flight time. Thank you for showing me what happens with the auto take off, at least now I know to never use that function. BTW I hot glued mine too.
Same exact thing happened to me, but the second & third time I tried manually taking it off, it did the same freaking thing!
What you experienced is Spot On...I bought the red and white version Fall 2023. During the winter, i fly at an indoor dome. Flew it a couple of dozen times, and it flew great. Very steady and nimble movement, and looks very scale. I also had the chance to fly it outdoors late Fall 2023, and while it didn't zoom away like yours did, I tried seeing how high it would go. When it got about 150' up, I then tried to bring it down, and it took FOREVER, to the point that if there was any kind of wind, I may have lost it in the surrounding trees. Happened a couple of times, and I realized I could not let it get that high for fear of losing it. I noted this in my online review on the Banggood site, where I bought it from, and they actually responded with an apology and indication that they would look into the matter, but no offer to repair/replace it and no further contact since then. In Spring, 2024 I flew it again at the dome, and it suddenly started pulsing and would not get enough speed to even take off, as if there was an issue with the speed control. Did online research and found nothing on the problems I experienced, but I did find an online RC message board where several people posted about the same issue you had, where it just jumped up and kept going until they hit the "kill" button and it came crashing down. Appparently, this is a not-uncommon issue. I tried contacting RC Era directly by e-mail but they would not respond - apparently, everything from RC Era is sold "as-is" with no support whatsoever. I swore off RC Era after that. However, BG just had a sale that was too good to pass up on the RC Era Bell 206 helicopter that i just bought. I figured i will give them one more chance. Just received it and have not flown it yet. If that one experiences glitches like this MD500, I will forever swear off ANYTHING from RC Era.
Reminds me of the COX gas helicopter.
Gas it up, start it, adjust the air fuel needle, let go, then chase it down wherever it went.
The fun days of old.
I saw another demo of this helicopter by an Italian guy and it flew very well, looked great
It may have been the transmitter was faulty. I was having trouble with mine also. The transmitter wasn't binding to the heli so I tried another one that looked similar. If you bought the little grey military or coast guard looking heli it basically has the same transmitter minus the emergency stop button and it's black. So I tried it and bingo!!...it worked. It flies great. Although I had to use another transmitter I had no other issues.
I got one 2 months ago and it performs perfectly. A joy to fly! Then i pursuaded my colleque to buy one too and he had exactly the same bug as you just got. He was inside his living room so has some whitening to redo now. He burned his controller as smoke came out as it hung in the curtains. He is in contact with BangGood for a replacement now. Lets see how the next one does... It seems to me that some helis have the optical flow sensor connected the wrong way around making it shoot to the moon without alt.hold kicking in 😢
Wow!! I got the red and white one (no missiles 😉) and so far I've only flown one battery on it. Thankfully it didn't do that! But I did find that it didn't respond well to the controls being touched during auto takeoff. If I did try to control it, for example yaw it left or right, as soon as it came out of auto takeoff, it would quickly snap itself back to the original orientation before I had full control of it. After realizing what was happening, I just let it finish its auto takeoff and then it behaved just fine when I started controlling it.
So I did have the red Coast Guard model, and it did do exactly what this one did only I was able to do it three times with mine, the first time in auto and the second and third time in manual takeoff mode, and the auto land would not work, only the emergency kill button worked all three times...🙄
Pay for an RC helicopter, get an Estes rocket that just shoots up into the sky! 😂😂😂
Did you read the instructions before taking off?
Instructions? We don't need no stinking instructions
Maybe assembled by a Sinatra fan; "Fly me to the moon"
I got mine from Ali and its the army green. Assembly went well, I tossed the tools it came with as they are terrible material and strips very easily. Best investment was a micro repair set with magnetic electric driver made assembly fast and easy. I tested all 3 speed modes. Advance power up and down to bind (beeps), auto take off and land. Manual start and take off, point the two sticks down and out to start the motor. Hover to trim and fly around. I landed by getting close to the ground and then keeping the throttle down to land and shut motor off. I re-calibrated by putting all sticks down and to the left (beeps). Manual start again and advanced throttle to take off seemed to work better so my start ups always contain a calibration before each flight. Indoors mode 1 works great but I find myself always flying on mode 3. Trim is into the wind with 1 or 2 clicks forward. only issue is you can not get it back into the box with landing skid and rocket pods on. One will have to mod the pods for quick removal and mod the box to fit with skids on. So far so good I'm having lots of scale flights with this little bird making me look like a heli pro. It saddens me to watch and hear about others having fly away issues. I hope the sellers can make it right for them.
Mine has been awesome as well. I have the army camouflage one and I’m even going to install some simple navigation lights with a small 1s battery and Velcro it underneath to give it an even more scale look flying at night.
What a pity of such a good looking heli. Agreed with some others: would be interesting to see how the seller reacts to this mishap (they would want video-evidence / check!), how they handle everything, and how the copter actually flies once you get a properly working replacement. That is something you hardly ever do: revisiting something that didn't perform as it should in the video and follow up on the after-sales etc.
It's a sad day seeing a beautiful little MD500E taking the full on gravity challenge. Definitely one of my favorite helicopters of all time.
Really? This one? This thing is P.O.S. they had so many others on the channel that were less money, and definitely better... 🤔
I bought the same model for 3 weeks. It flew normal and easily control. But in yesterday's flight, it performed exactly your situation as a rocket far up to the sky and not under control. It almost flew away and lost. I quickly ran to follow it and tried to control it by touching the landing button and lastly it descended and under my control. I think it might influence by cold weather. After warming up, it performed normal.
Holy moly! I'm glad I read your comment. I was prepared to buy a. B. N. F. Version as I still have a couple of batteries and controller from MY disastrous flight. Now. I feel, until they (RC ERA) realize there IS a problem and it/others are corrected , the best anyone can expect out of this thing currently it seems , is maybe a couple of flights and retire it as a ''shelf queen''.
@@I.B.Duressed I am pretty sure they do not sell BNF version. If so let me know please.
I bought mine in November last year, maiden and thankfully until now nothing dreadful happens to the C189 MD500. But the obvious observation is the heli will drop in altitude when it does the clockwise turn. So make sure the heli is higher from the ground when doing the clockwise turn. Did not use the landind button. I throttle down manually until it lands and the motor cuts off.
Thank you for always being so honest and up front about products. This video could have saved a child from receiving a heartbreaking Xmas or birthday gift. Your videos are always entertaining and informative. Love you guys.
💯👍 I couldn’t agree more! Always great content and the fact that you stay honest makes it even greater. Keep up the awesome work!
I can't say if anyone that is experiencing this "runaway" problem is doing anything wrong, or if the copters are defective units. But, I will say that I have two of these helicopters and they are the best scale flying copters that I have. They are quick and responsive, yet stable. Always use the third speed setting outdoors in order to overcome wind. This copter does not have optical-flow for position hold, but it does have a barometric-pressure sensor for altitude hold. The reviews on Banggood are overwhelmingly positive.🙂
Update to my comment above......one of mine finally had an uncontrolled flyaway. It took off at full throttle when I started the motor with the sticks down and out. There were many flights on this copter so this can happen anytime. I made the necessary repairs, and held the copter to the ground with a small board when I started the motor. It started at idle, I removed the board, took off, and it flew properly. Flying this is a risk, such a shame as it is a great flying helicopter. RCSaylors did nothing wrong!
Honestly, I’ve watched 10+ videos about this helicopter, and had considered it, but this is the first video I’ve seen showcasing problems of it. The honesty is refreshing.
Yeah man, the same thing happened to me with one my brother gave me (red coast guard)....
It did exactly what this one did.., but three times in a row, first time in auto & second & third time in Manual mode, and I tried every button, including auto land and everything but the only button that would work reliably was the "oh shit" button😂
So basically it's a prop driven rocket ship? Lol
I would like to see what the company will do, and if they replace it, how quickly they do, and what the replacement does. How much trouble it was to get it replaced would also be nice to know. Every company has one or more that slip past QC, heck even nasa has done it. So i wont trash talk them for seeing this kind of thing. The measure of the company and its products, is how they stand behind it. Really want to know how this turns out, please do an update regardless of how it does. if you get a new one, or not, and so on.
I want to see what happens also. But at this time with Holidays I would expect a delay all around
I have 2 of these (a black version and a green version). The green version works great but the black one (after multiple success flights) did the same thing twice. First time went up about 20 feet but I was able to land safely by pressing the auto landing button multiple times. The second time it did exactly the same as in the video (kept on going up and up) then it lost power and crashed. Bent the main shaft and broke landing skid. Both times I calibrated the gyro and didn’t use auto takeoff so definitely a defect affecting many of these after hearing similar comments. Too bad because when it works properly it’s a fun helicopter.
I can so relate to your story after having it happen three times myself the second and third time taking off manually, and yes, the third time there were a few seconds where I had control, but they were fleeting seconds...👍🏻🎄
@@joethompson2910 It’s good to know I’m not the only one who had this issue. Hopefully Rc ERA can fix this problem because I really like the helicopter. I just got replacement parts for my crashed black one so hopefully it won’t do that again. It seems like a lot of the comments think it’s a controller issue so I’m using the second one I have.
Want to sell the wrecked one?... I'd like to have something to show for my experience as well :^D
I have two, probably my all time favorite RC Heli. Never had any such problem as you did. Be sure to calibrate first on level ground.
Can also be bound to Multi-Protocol transmitters like T16S Radiomaster with EDGE TX. There is channel named Andrej Sturm that has some great info.
I sure appreciate your honest reviews on different toys. If that is the right word to describe the RC world.
Runaway Helicopter. I know the feeling absolutely love you and Abby keep up the amazing work Sincerely 💗 Richard
That copter needed a self destructive button so blows up if gets squirly
Yeah! That's what SpaceX does...🤣
I thought it was going to explode like a firework! that thing went up so fast!
😂... it certainly got my heart pounding quick when it happened to me...🤪
I think you are supposed to set the GPS while it's on the ground pull both sticks to the bottom left corner, and you should get the taillight to blink confirming it is set.
They didn't mention a GPS. I have one. There's no GPS.
No GPS but you can calibrate the Gyro which I did three times with mine and all three times It still flew up like a rocket. everyone keeps saying that it was probably the auto takeoff button but it still did it taking off manually two times for me..
That was a ROCKET and I was going to wave bye, bye!! BUMMER it was a BUMMER!! Saylors you honestly ROCK!! May the New Year be Merry and Bright!! 👍💟😎
Thanks for the candid videos. I enjoy seeing "the truth" as most of the audience fly's and experiences the same kind of quirks. I feel bad every time I am at the field and things go bad. I KNOW poop will happen as the old adage says "if you fly them, you will need to rebuild them..." . We all know that, but it is still a gut punch of second guessing when the day ends with damage to the bird...
The Key is , don't fly without treating it like it might be your last. from every flight. .... Especially the maiden.
Mine def didn't do this, you've been having bad luck lately! Happy Christmas 🎄
I had a drone with auto takeoff I paid $400 here in Australia, I tried the auto takeoff it went straight up like yours did but then started to fly off into the distance but I did try the return home button but that didn’t work and who knows where that drone ended up and I haven’t tried to buy another again. Love your honesty. Merry Christmas Saylor Family 🎄
Wow! Thats freekin totally irritating dood..😖
You should’ve tried pressing the landing button first
I had the same thing happened three times in a row, and I did try hitting the autoland button and in fact, I tried everything, and the only button that worked reliably was the "oh shit" button
Good to know. I’ve had good luck with this helicopter but I’ll deactivate the take off button just in case
@@ordinaryfan6990 I don't think that will solve anything because I had it happen twice just manually taking off… If you get a good one you're fine ...if you don't, it's depressing, dangerous, (and expensive).
Good luck my friend and have a great Christmas & New Year!🎄
Thank you, like wise!
I have recently received mine and all ok. This Heli is so beautiful. 10 April 2024
Glad to hear that! Happy Flying! 👍💯😎⚓️
Sad it didn’t work very well, pretty cool little copter!
I have this heli you should try Calibrating it first
Calibrating first? Never heard of it
Yeah, it's in the manual. Hold both sticks down and left, Hold both sticks down and out will start. @@I.B.Duressed
now WHY didn't ANYONE think of that !?! ...amazing :^l
@@I.B.Duressed it's what i been doing and it's been flying good and stable
I commented on here previously but anyways I crashed mine,my fault,then ordered parts and fixed it myself which was easier than I thought it would be,it now flies again etc,there easy to fix and get parts for.
Merry Christmas!
That happened to me to! After signaling it to go down several times it finally responded and came down. My fix was to get another transmitter! That worked for me. Try it
I had the same exact problem and Im gonna try what you suggested ....
When I was in car audio many years ago, I had a Chinese couple come in looking for an equalizer for their car stereo, and when they asked where the piece of equipment (Blaupunkt) was made, we flipped it over and it said "Made in China"...and they said "no thank you..., China make cheap stuff, we know...we from China"...😂😂 Ive always gotten a laugh outta that..
@@joethompson2910 so this problem seems to be very common... not good at all!
@@RCCopterLove Yeah, they have some issue, and its too bad because everything else I heard & watched about it was good... but yeah, these places like Banggood and Makerfire... good luck getting customer service out of em...just pissin $160 away... quite irritating...
I hope DJI is better to deal with, though the quality of my Mini 4 Pro is MUCH better...
Bummer thanks for the video and merry xmas to you and Abby
Yeah, was really looking forward to flying this helicopter. Merry Christmas!! 🎄✝️❤️💯⚓️
What the hell was that?!?! 🤣🤣🤣
I MIGHT have been interested in it if I could bind my own radio to it. To be honest, that held up A LOT better than I thought it would from that high altitude crash. I expected to see the fuselage totally obliterated and the main rotor blades completely broken.
Appreciate the honest and why I watch your video's. You did good getting it back to the ground without hitting anything which was a win!!
Good to see helicopters 🚁 again 😊😊😊😊⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️
Yes it happened to me, indoors flys perfect, out doors the same results a crash!!
You are going to need to forget about helicopters because it seems like you are cursed with the😁... Good video, though!... Thumbs-up...Greetings from Douglas, Arizona 🌵🦠🦠🇵🇷Merry Christmas and happy New Year 2024...
Ouch!! I think I will try the manual takeoff mode for my first flight with this! I'm glad I saw this. Thanks for posting the video!! 🙂
I have flown mine several times and not one glitch ? what am I doing right ?
sooo lol ... good for you ...hope you get a THOUSAND MORE !!!
Simple, none of the components in your helo from a defective production batch..
If you think western manufacturers take shortcuts, it's nothing compared to Chinese manufacturer culture.
It's not uncommon for laborers working 10-12 hrs,6 days per week at low pay.
Sleep deprivation and fear of harsh reprisals are not conducive to consistent production quality.
Ever notice that even expensive new products are hit or miss? Or if they do initially work, fails prematurely?
The guy didn't calibrate the controls,up and down,then both down and to the left,beep again,he's a idiot lol
I just purchased one Jan 2025 and mine is doing the same thing; I was spared disaster because I secured the landing skids down so it would no take off. It started up just fine, it ran fine (sound was low RPM) as soon as I moved the throttle a tine bit upwards the RPM rocked to max and stayed there even after I moved the throttle lever downwards. Is there a fix for this?
They had a bad batch of flightboards and tx's. Many vids on it. Order a new board🤘
Yeah, they need to check that. I agree that it looks neat, but that experience is a bummer.
It’s been a year and many folks have experienced this flyway issue. Lots of theories as to what part fails and why. The bottom line is to be prepared for it to happen if you have an original version. The newer versions all had improved or updated FCs and ESCs. It’s also probably the component that fails.
My rule is ..I never fly it , unless I'm prepared to lose it. This was an exception however Maiden flight.. and I was NOT prepared.
Still makes me sick to think about it...
Sooo, how do you know if you got the "Updated version "... I'm a big fan of the MD 500...Would like to paint it up the Magnum P I version...
@@ToyManFlyer1100 talking to the factory engineer I found out that majority of the ones in the market are now with new components. Only time and luck I guess. The fix is not a big deal and the cost of the helis also manageable at less that $150.
@@Flight6677 .... Oooohh, okay...I guess it's like when a restaurant is opened...You gotta let ev'ry body else go in and eat all that Factory cleaning chemicals off the new grills, pots and pans...Depending on how much business they have and who knows how they order...I guess I need to order one 'round Christmas time...Hopefully all the bad ones are out of the system....Was thinking about getting one and tie a long string to it and that way you can control the altitude and not have a "Rocket Man To the Moon " experience...IDK....🙄🙄🙄🙄
According to my experience the first batch was produced in late Spring 2023. When I ordered mine in mid-october I received several messages from Banggod about a delay in production due to high demand. Finally it shipped mid-november. Mine flew for three days with no problem until it suddenly went out if control...
Hello Mr. Rc Sailor. I recently purchased an MD 500 C189 helicopter. The maiden voyage was a disaster. Using the one touch takeoff feature the helicopter rose up to approximately 100' ? It rapidly flew to the right with no response on the joysticks at all ? After having to use the auto stop function it crashed to the ground with a minimum of damage luckily. I've watched the reviews with a broken heart. I'm an elderly man on SSD salary. $250 isn't a lot of money, however it is for me. I'm trying to break into the hobby I'm sure your getting a lot of comments on this particular products ? Any advice would be 6:46 productive ? Thank you !
After about 6 flights in my living room, It happened to me🤯!! That heli stuck to my ceiling, looked like it was snowing in my living room😂😂!! I'll never fly it again with those electronics in it, just gonna put the XY-F1 tronics in it to make a full collective "FULL CONTROL" bird.
Man I bet that was funny after. 😂😂
You get a free drywall sander with every purchase of this heli
I’m listening…
Here’s the situation, I just bought this copter. Same issue as here in the video.
I’m returning it for a refund. However, I have until February to return it.
How are you planning on doing this?
What specific electronics would I need to purchase?
Just a new receiver?
I would like to be able to bind it to my Spectrum Dx6i.
How are you planning on calibrating the gyro?
I have 30 years RC experience with planes mostly but did have a 6 channel Nexus .30 years ago. Just getting back into copters now.
I’d love to get this bird converted over to being able to bind it to my Dx6i but I didn’t know it was possible but you make a good point about swapping the electronics!! 👍👍👍
This copter looks amazing and I’d love to get it going if ya could tell me exactly what I need to buy and if it’s even possible to bind it to a Dx6i with a new receiver ? Idk how the gyro would work with that?
My thoughts are, I’ll buy what ya think will work, try it in my copter I have before I return it. If it works, I’ll exchange the copter for a new one and do the conversion on the new bird.
Let me know what your thinking!! 👍👍👍
Honestly, welcome to the world of helicopters. You're lucky it was a cheap one!
Merry Christmas, Nate and Abby
super fast take off
Love the Dunder Mifflin hoodie
Thanks for your integrity! You guys are the best!
That spy drone was RC ERA too. This is a shame - but as you said, it MIGHT be just a coincidence. It's a cool looking helicopter... Looks like one you see in the A-TEAM show.
I had the same exact thing happen to the red coast guard model that my brother gave me for my birthday..
We prefer the ugly truth over a beautiful lie. Thanks for the video as always. Merry Christmas.
That helicopter wasn't hanging about.🤭😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I just got this for Christmas. After watching your video, and another guy who had the same problem, I decided to take extra precautions. I used a leather belt, ran it through the skids, screwed it to the cover of my firepit, which is heavy marine plywood. And then started the copter. I would have had the same problem. It tried to launch up, very fast and no response to down elevator, until after 2 minutes or so. Also the head gear, or rotor seemed wobbly. I have no damage to the unit, it was new out of box. And thankfully from a few videos, I knew it might have this problem. So I guess this defective unit may make a great shelf queen. Atleast for now until I find out if there is a fix for this.
I’ve seen others fly this and say how great it is but it’s good to know what else can happen. There went $200 😣 You’re lucky Abbey is so great! No way my wife would have been so calm!
I am glad you review this stuff, so we can avoid wasting money on those kind of products. Call it what it is, trash. Entertaining video anyways. I do appreciate your videos, I always have. Thankyou Nate.
Yeah that description pretty well covered it I spend extra to get a three batteries I remained optimistic for a while that I can buy at least buy a BNF version another hundred and twenty dollars minimum I might as well spend the difference and get a complete DJI which is only 300 now the whole experience was just heartbreaking I truly expected more from RC era
Lol I love these fail vids.... We all have been there 🤷🏼♂️🤣
Whew! Makes me feel better knowing I’m not the only one with this stuff happening! 👍💯😅⚓️
w0w ...ain't THAT th' truth ! ....still hurts like the First time though
You're not the only 1 with uncontrollable helo fly away.
My 1st Blade 230S (v1), in reference to transmitter response, always flew flawlessly.
I enjoyed it so much that after 1 year and many flight hours later, I bought another one as a backup.
The 2nd helo must have had defective receiver.
On the maiden flight after routine binding, "happy dance" self calibration and joysticks testing,I successfully did a scale takeoff.
All was well until 15 ft. away all transmitter inputs ceased to have any effects,zero..
Not even throttle hold, absolutely no switch, button or stick had any effect.
I could only helplessly watch in shock as it slowly continued climbing and got carried by the breezes into the woods. Never found it.
Contacted horizon hobby but as usual they're useless, it's always "pilot error ".
Congrats horizon Hell.
I lost $300 but you lost thousands in larger scale helos, boats, cars,buggies, trucks,planes, drones, high end chargers, parts & accessories.
hi Folks sorry about the heli looks great too but it shot off like a bullet!!! wow.. subscribed and joined too great show guys keep it up (excuse the helicopter pun)
Doh! Definitely not a case of pilot error on that crash. BTW, your holiday card and stickers arrived in the mail today. Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you and yours! All the best for the New Year!
that was fast money gon in 2 seconds ashame nice looking chopper abby you did the best you could don't sweat it be safe
3:44 most UA-camrs know how to fly what they are buying… please read the directions and you will find your answer. Maybe don’t hit stop when you are in the air when the land button is the obvious choice.
But how do you Really Feel? 🤔⚓️
@@TheRcSaylors Can you not detect any remote feeling of disappointment?? I feel bad because people including myself cannot get a legitimate review and flight of a BEGINNER helicopter.
I guess your deaf the auto take off sent it to space and then it stop replying to input so unless he wanted to go chasing it till it died the shut down was the only option maybe go buy it fly it and make your own UA-cam channel
Awesomebob knows everything!! Maybe you should change your name to iknoweverythingbob. Most UA-camrs??? I been into RC for over 30 years and probably would have done the same thing. How do you know he could have done all these things. Have you ever flown a Rc helicopter or Airplane?? Do you make videos of RC’s. I think you just watch cartoons and post them on UA-cam. Get some experience before you make comments. I don’t think you’re that awesome!!
@@smoothrc28 you’re not the brightest one are you.
I (kinda) feel like a portion of the Blame belongs to me. (I commented that Nate had "one of the best camera operators" out there; so what ELSE could he do but Offer her a wee Challenge, just as quickly as he could!)
I had a similar issue, it took off but controls didn't listen, no way to get it to come down, did a slow climb and drifted to side with no way to counteract. I was fighting the cpu, can only land with emerg stop. Happened 1 out of 5 or so flights.Broken, returned to Amazon.
Wow! Don't hit auto takeoff in the house 😳. Blessed Christmas to you and family! 🙂
Try and get your hands on another one of these, obviously you had a defective one. I would like to see a review from you with one that's working correctly. I've seen several video reviews from other people, and it flew just fine.
I think he is super clueless about heli's among other things.
Did you actually read the manual or just send it?
😂
Nice Scale replica of the Hughes 500 , shame it lasted all of 25 seconds , there must be some parameters that needed to be set up or it a bug in the auto takeoff programming.
Hopefully the manufacturer sends you a replacement and we can see your skills on this Hughes.. Cheers , an Merry Christmas to you , Abby the little one ..
Well people, the fly away finally happened to me this weekend. only thing I was able to do was hit the stop button. I walked away with broken blades a tail boom and stripped main gears. The landing skids and rocket pods took a beating as you can see the impact stress marks but managed to stay intact.
I did the usual upon start up bind, calibrate and engine start. I throttled up and boom she shot straight up no controls. I did a few ground tests with the stripped gears and I held onto the heli with 1 hand while I got the rotors to spool up and hit the throttle and it went full throttle on me while holding it in my hand. Hitting the stop button was all that could be done to stop it. I did this a few more times and out of 10 attempts I was able to get 1 good one being able to control and reduce throttle. There was 1 other time during the testing it went full throttle on it's own after spool up it didn't give me time to hold onto the tail boom and I immediately hit stop a few feet in the air.
I think I got around 10 consecutive great flights with this before this happened. I really thought I lucked out and got a good one. Such a shame I was really enjoying flying this but I did have a weird feeling I even made sure to slap on a return address label on it just in case and wallah now I've become one of the fly away members.
Gee that's a bit of bad luck there Nate I have this heli but never used the auto take off and after watching this I don't think il venture there I personally don't like auto take off with anything purely for that reason I like to be in control all the time but I have had issues with it could always control it but a few time it would not stop and had to use the emergency stop I also had to trim the heli as it would violently pull to the left when you take your hand of the stick another thing I found is it doesn't like wind or even a light breeze if your not careful it will get away on you mine flys ok now the only thing I'm disappointed on I did not get the little compact antenna so I had to make one 😂 it is a good heli I think you just got a Friday afternoon special just around quitting time where all care gos out the window cause it's time to go home then come Monday morning "yeah this is right to go" I've had my fair share of those . Again sorry you had a fail on that heli it's just one of those things cheers🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁
omg lol that was nuts
Sad that this happened but have learned we weren’t the only ones!! Happy flying my friend. 👍😎💯⚓️
@@TheRcSaylors will u try another one ?
looks like a wonderful investment...
Merry Christmas Nate, Abby and little Saylors.
AirHammer out!!
I had the expensive Coast Guard SH-60, and it did the exact same thing. $500 down the toilet. This has to be a semi common problem with RC helicopters
Thats depressing to me preacher, I have one of those on order and you’re the first that I’ve heard that happen to. I feel bad for you and I hope I don’t get that unlucky. I know they sell replacement parts, any possibility it could be repaired?
Man you guys have had the worst luck with scale heli's this year first the FW450 Huey now the rc era MD 500
i'm curious did you calibrate the gyro before take off? I know you mentioned up/down on the throttle. Both sticks lower left to calibrate the gyro, wonder if that would make any difference in your maiden.
Dang it looks awesome but Jeeeesus that thing looked completely out if control, maybe if ya didn't use the auto launch would it perform better 🤔
Nope, I launched mine three times… The first time in auto… And the second and third time manually, and by the way I did calibrate the gyro 3 times.
@@joethompson2910 Wow How did it act in manual??? Was it completely out of control???
@@EJ-74 So on my second attempt, it did pretty much exactly the same thing it went up and it kept going up to about 60 feet and the only control that would work was the kill switch...
Now the third time I tried it I did get a little bit of control for maybe three or four seconds and it did not shoot up into the stratosphere, but I was able to keep it at about three or 4 feet off the ground before control was lost & just quit working, except for that emergency override button that just kills it...and by the way I did calibrate the Gyro every time just in case.
@@joethompson2910 Dang that's sad, looks awesome but that doesn't mean jack if it's uncontrollable, I wonder if it would be worth changing out the electronics? I know that's ridiculous to have to do to a brand new helicopter but it looks like it's the only option at this point... I have a couple older model helicopters that need new electronics, if you happen to know of a good deal on some replacement electronics let me know....
I got 10 good flights out of mine and really enjoyed it, then mine did the same runaway climb thing. I hit the Land button, that brought it down softly, then I had to do Emergency Stop to get the blades to stop spinning. Reset the gyros, had a good flight but I could tell something was off. Next flight a few days later with one push of the Takeoff button it goes full throttle and full forward stick until it tumbles on the ground and destroys itself. So that's 10 flights for $158 dollars. Was it worth $15.80 per flight? Don't think so, not buying ERA ever again.
I have one of these it's great I wonder what happened
This bastard, whatever he plays with, it breaks and falls, making other people not dare to buy it, thinking that the toy is bad, but it is him who plays with it badly. This destructive idiot, the toy company should sue him.
🤣🤣🤣Ohhh. Little piano came down from the sky......
Bahaha that was awesome. Thanks for posting
Hey Nate, if you want some practice with small hardware, try putting together an Orlandoo Hunter vehicle! I love them! (My therapist says I'm making progress)!
I ordered two, one for me, the other as a gift, I tried both, the first flew without problem, the second left just on takeoff, complete loss of the radio signal, it went up without the slightest reaction to the commands, and he left, without me being able to do anything, I just hope he didn't hurt anyone!!
I asked Bangood for a replacement and we'll see what they have to say about that!!!
Wow,.... the only control that worked for me was the emergency shut off switch and then it just fell out of the sky like a rock and after three times it was still somewhat OK so I'm gonna try mine with a different transmitter and see what happens… Sorry you had that problem friend..
DITTO...but l only got one , and although had F, L,& R control but NO rev. or Down ...ES didn't either ...just flew away for 14 ish min. somewhere ....everyone DUCK !
@@I.B.DuressedSo what did Banggood do???
A lot are going to fly back to the North Pole this Christmas 😂 Merry Christmas!
Lol. Mine might be halfway there by now.
There will be pics of elves posing with them same way people posed with stolen gnomes years ago😅
Wow, it did look nice, I wonder if you would had better luck trying to take off on your own.
Did you calibrate it 👀👀
Thanks for all you do. Merry Christmas and best wishes to you.
Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄
Mine just went full throttle, full forward cyclic until it crashed. Worked for about a dozen flights before the crash. Bought a replacement board, did the same thing. Junk.
Is two board , what show the parts for C189, in Ali Express,. One is a receiver and the other is a governor .Which one you replaced?
@@Donisio59 I replaced the receiver, I've ordered the governor board, fingers crossed it will solve the problem. It really is a beautiful little helicopter, hope I can get it flying again.
This channel is my "Gold Standard" for RC buying choices. You just saved me a couple hundred bucks by posting this as I was planning to buy one of these following Christmas.
I've read many of these "malfunktion comments".
🤔Could the radio control become disturbed in some locations by some other radio signals, so that the rc helicopter gets kinda mixed up input?