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Tail set up

When decided to upgrade to a larger Heli, I plumped for the Walkera 60, one reason
was I thought it was good value for money, even though many people around the Net
seem to call this Heli not fit to burn, I still went ahead to purchase one.

Ok, so we already know that RTF means ready to fly, But only if you can already fly them,
however, the most experienced pilot in my mind would have been unable to fly this one
as the tail was completely un-setup, a fantastic CCW spin upon lift off and no amount
of stick input would correct this action, So RTF was totally out the window here.

So, looked on the afore mentioned Forum at Heliguy, had a few tips here and there and
even though I had no real clue how to actually set this type of Heli up, I decided that I
had to have a go, the tail the way it was, I felt I could make it no worse than it was.

I took note of what some ppl had said, try to get the tail servo horn as near 90 degrees
as possible, it was a mile out from 90 degrees, and with not being totally used to these
machines was a little hesitant at the thought of disconnecting things.

I read up a little more on setting up the mechanical neutral of the tail rotor to the servo,
So got ready, nice area to do the work, and hopefully with no interruption :)

I disconnected the linkage arm from the servo end and tail end and removed the tail servo
horn, whilst motor was not connected I turned on the TX and connected the main battery
so the heli could set the servos, once set, disconnected the battery, and tried to place
the tail servo horn back on it was still a long way out, and even with adjustment on the
linkage rod would not be enough to bring it near to 90 degrees, so what I decided to do
was slacken the tail servo mounting and slide it along the tail boom a little, I also wound up
the two links on the linkage rod, so I knew I would have plenty movement to lengthen both ends.

current position of Tail Servo on boom ( correct for mine now )

While the servo was in the new position, but not fully tight, I placed the linkage rod on the
tail linkage ball, and the servo horn ball linkage (but not pressed on) to how it all lined up,
it was not that far off, so as it was, TX back on, Battery back on, to set again, to see if
anything had moved with all the messing around, ended up having to move the servo a few
times until I was happy that the servo arm was sitting very close to 90 degrees, and when
the linkage rod was fitted I would have enough travel adjustment to do the fine adjustment to get
the tail rotor Slider hopefully central.

As near to 90 degrees as I could get

It looked okay, powered off, and went on the re-connect the linkage rod to the servo and tail linkages, powered back up, set itself, powered back off, and then started to wind out the ends of
the linkage rod ( both ends with equal turns ) I had manually moved the tail rotor slider to dead
centre, so what I was looking for was that when adjusted the linkage rod, would sit nicely in
position over each ball at each end with no tension, after a few attempts, I felt it was sitting
pretty good and proceeded to press on both ends of the linkage rods to make it secure, I then
powered back on so it could set itself, and at last it all seemed to set okay ( baring in mind this took me a few days ) so was happy at that point.

The tail slider at centre and linkage also at 90 degrees and 0 pitch

When I came to attempt to lift off it was not to bad, certainly was not spinning, but still it
did want to keep drifting its tail CCW, but only slowly, I really cannot explain this bit, but what
I did then was, alter the V1 and V2 knobs whilst dip 12 was on, and with a little trial and error
finally had it hovering nice and stable.

Not the worlds best at describing things, but hope this does help a little :)