Secret Squirrel
Key Veteran
Location: New Zealander living in Melbourne, Australia
| I compete quite regularly in fAI style comps and I don't use a governor in my CS.
You can pretty much set your radio up to not need them by using mixes and stuff.
I use rudder to throttle mixing in hover condition so that as I do comp piroettes (ie slow - supposed to take 4 seconds a rotation) the heli doesn't rise or fall (depending on the direction of piroette). In this case I lower the throttle slightly when piroetting with the torque, and increase it slight as I go against it.
I use a little bit of aileron to throttle mixing for the multiple rolls and such, but flying around, I haven't thought to myself "This is where I really need a governor".
I think a governor would be most useful in the hovering sections in competition actually.
Si
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