[corsair_pilot]

Hi Igor,
Sorry hadn't noticed an email pop up to say there had been activity on this thread.
Well I've bought the HK450 and well lets just say, I wish I had saved up and got something straight out of Align, blade or another quality manufacturer. I've had one servo on cyclic fry itself (means replacing all 3) got another cheap one (stripped that one out) meant another 3 servos. Now have decent Align servo's set up. It was running better. The tail servo was working ok.
I found out later that i've got the belt slightly twisted, so tail rotating same direction as the head (my fault, doesn't matter what heli i bought) and as such meant i had my tail blades in the wrong way.
Fixed tail blades up and have now bent the shaft in the tail grips, and have bent the main shaft. Haven't had it off the ground yet by the way.
I don't know how good the gyro is yet, but i would strongly suggest going a better quality kit. I'm now replacing my tail unit with the align one. Oh and the tools and screws out of HK are pretty cheap, i've destroyed a screwdriver trying to undo the ball links in the tail slider.
Upon saying that, with more experience I would have done a better job with this build.
so some of it is the lack of quality of the product, other is the lack of patience and experience of the builder (me).
So please don't hear me trying to turn you off the HK one, but i'm going to be building a 500 or 550 with the old man soon, and I'll be buying an original and not a clone.
Will be going for the good gyro etc....
So as it stands I need to get a few new planes cos i have 7 servos that need a home!!