Re: +/- 9.5 degrees.. enough?

"Carl Farrington" <carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The T-Rex is all put together now, just waiting on the Futaba S9257 from

> Skyline which will hopefully be here today.
>
> If I'm reading the pitch gauge right, then I've got pretty much 9.5 
> degrees pitch each way. (collective.. I haven't done any measuring of 
> cyclic throw on top of that, if that makes any sense). Is this enough? 
> It's nicely 0-degrees at center stick, so I don't think messing with 
> linkrods will make any useful difference. I suppose the only way to 
> increase it evenly both ways would be to move out a bit on all three of 
> the servo arms.
>
> Should I be looking for more pitch? I can't see that I'd use it right
away 
> but the chappie whose videos I had a look at ("Finless Bob from 
> helifreak") seems to go for 11 degrees, and he says other people go for 
> 12!
>
> whaddaya think?
>
> cheers

I agree with Beav's comments.  +/- 9.5 will work for routine flying around
and general 3D work.  If you want to get really aggressive with it, you'll
probably be happier with more.  As for autorotations, the T-Rex and other
similar birds are marginal in autos with 12 degrees.  9.5 won't even slow
it
down much!  ;-)

To get more collective throw, going to longer servo arms will certainly do
it.  You can also look at our swash mixing numbers.  They default at 50%
for
ail, eel, and pitch.  You can try running the pitch number up to 60 or 65%
and see what that does for you.  Depending on how you're setup
mechanically,
it may not take much but if 65% doesn't give you what you need, I'd go out
a
hole on the servo arms.

Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Fly Safe,
Steve R.