Trex 450 Sport Checklist

All it takes is a failure of just one of the many parts of a RC helicopter to force your smoothly flying machine to become dancing chicken. One loose screw in the air can cost you a hundred bucks or more to fix.

It is for this reason that it is so important to check every critical element of your bird prior to each flight. There are so many parts and mechanical processes that remembering exactly what to check is no easy task. Pilots of full scale aircraft put their lives in the hands of their equipment and have come to rely on written checklists to reduce mechanical problems to a minimum.

Using the same method with your RC helicopter will greatly reduce the number of crashes you experience. Below is a maintenance checklist as well as a pre-flight checklist that I use prior to putting my Trex 450 Sport into the air. It is based on the Sport and my Spectrum DX6i transmitter but you can use it for a basic checklist for any electric Heli.