Re: +/- 9.5 degrees.. enough?

Beav wrote:
> "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.

Yeah I realised that later on. I now have 11 degrees maximum mechanical 
each way, and curves set to give -2 to +11 or something in Normal mode, 
and mostly full range in idle up. Thing is though, on the sim I'm only 
ever using idle-up.. Even for flips & rolls, that -2 neg isn't enough to 
stop the heli falling to the ground when its upside down mid-flip.

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

OK ;) You're the boss!