Re: +/- 9.5 degrees.. enough?

Beav wrote:
> "Carl Farrington" <carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> news:63v09oF279e4dU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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?
> 
> Do you intend flying around upside down doing evrything you can when
it's 
> the right way up? If so, you've just about got enough. If you DON'T
intend 
> flying around upside down doing all the things you can do when it's the 
> right way up, youo've got too much negative and not enough positive to 
> effect a good autorotational landing.


Ah, well... I sort of figured I would have to get the mechanical travel 
to be equal in the extremes, then use the ATVs or swash mixing whatever 
it is to set bottom-stick to -2 or whatever it needs to be in Normal 
flight mode, -8 or -10 or whatever in idle-up 1 and 2. Am I way off base?

> 
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 12 positive and 12 neg. Then you can REALLY hammer it into the ground
and 
> give absolutely NO thought as to the repair costs, coz there won't BE
any. 
> The heli will be deader than 3 litre Supra, so burial or a funeral pyre
are 
> the only options.

lol ;)