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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>>> 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.

Well it won't be will it?. A heli requires around 4 or 5 degrees to stay
up 
in a hover, so it'll need the same amount (in negative) to keep from 
dropping halfway through a 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!

And don't you ****ing forget it :-)



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