Spider Gear were conceived and developed because I, just like the rest of you got tired of replacing parts every time my thumbs forgot what they were supposed to be doing. I wanted off of the training gear as soon as possible because i didnt' want to look like a total noob in front of my buddies.

Let us introduce you to a new concept.

Spider gear in conjunction with a perimeter stiffener plate that mounts between the bottom of the frame and the spider gear work to absorb hard vertical impacts resulting from panic drops, bad autos, dead sticks etc. This is a totally new concept, a mechanically articulating all aluminum landing gear system designed to help you out if you make a mistake that otherwise would have put the helicopter back on the bench waiting for parts.

Even with the simulators turning out pretty good novice pilots, the simulators can't simulate the pucker factor. Everyone i know that takes a $1000 helicopter up the first time and several consecutive times afterwards has a serious case of knocking knee's. Knocking knee's are a sign that your mind isn't where it should be, anything can happen, and when it happens, you have broken parts

Spider Gear are targeted to the 60%+ of the trex, blade 400 and mini titan 325 pilots out there that are in the beginner to intermediate level (like me). They are designed and marketed to substantially reduce damage to the expensive components of the helicopter such as the carbon frames, rotor heads, etc.  If one set of carbon frames are saved, the spider gear have paid for them selves. Reducing expense due to panic landings, hard landings etc are what this concept is about.  When stock gear break, the heli rolls over, and takes out who knows what.  This can lead to people giving up, thinking that they can not learn proper control because everytime they go up, they crash and have downtime. (I was there, and it cost me alot of money in frames, shafts, booms, blades etc. These arn't going to save everything everytime, but they will take the heat of hard vertical landings and give the pilot another opportunity to practice control without having downtime repairing. 

Once the pilot is good enough that he/she is ready to get into the wild 3d maneuvers,then they can pull these gear off, sell them to the buddy that they just got into the hobby because the buddy wants to be able to do the same thing.  They can put on the lightest gear they can find, because lets face it,  none of the gear manufactured is going to save the helicopter when it crashes inverted, nose down, tail down etc. 

Also, since these gear are a little over an inch wider, they increase stability as well reducing on ground tip-overs (which leads to frustration and expense). Nobody wants to have there buddy's see them on training gear with wiffle balls. The Spider gear will let them get off the training gear sooner and help give them confidence that yes they can instead of frustration that can put and end to the hobby for them. 

Now we have two differnt Types of Spider Landing Gears (only in germany available):

Typ 1: For the absolut Heli beginner. Comes with stiffener Plate and full Alu landing skids. Very stabel construction but heavyer than Typ 2.

Typ2: For the Heli Pilot who can middeling handle the landings and feels save in hover flight (nose, tail and side hovering). For those Pilots is the Typ2 because of the lower weight. Full Alu Skids and stiffener Plate are only necessary for the bloody Heli beginner. The absolute weight is 30% less than Typ1!!!