Re: +/- 9.5 degrees.. enough?

"Carl Farrington" <carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Beav wrote:
>> "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?
>>
>> 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?

Somewhat. You use the pitch and threottle curves to tune the collective 
range and throttle response. Not ATV.
>
>>
>>
>>> 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 ;)

You were warned then and you're being warned now. Your heli WILL die
unless 
you pull your head in wrt collective range.


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