darrylhadfield
Heliman
Location: Columbus, Ohio
| Geez, wish I'd thought to check on this earlier.. I picked up a Blade CP set up from someone else on here, got it Saturday.. new 4in1 on the unit, it was in great shape otherwise - it hadn't been calibrated, however, and it was constantly drifting to the right. I figured it was an issue with servo input, and something to do with gyroscopic precession and inputs to the flybar.. soooooo.. I tinkered with it for a bit, changed lengths on the servo push-rods.. seemed to help a bit, but when pulling pitch it still gave me grief.
I finally said "screw this, I want to fly!" and took it outside.. picked up off the ground, fought it into a pretty shoddy hover (Damn, this sucker was harder than learning to hover a real-life jetranger!!).. and then it keeled over.
Righted it, reset the mains, pulled it into another hover.. it keeled over again.
I put it back together again, packed it away and took it over to a friend's place where I was headed for dinner anyway. When I got there, I made a few more servo push-rod adjustments, and then I decided to show off, and I tried a maneuver that would have worked beautifully had it been a Huey ("Towering Start" for those of you who're familiar with RL rotary flight) and realized partway into it that it wouldn't work quite the same, thanks to gyro compensation.. no worries, though. It got to about 30 feet, and then I was fighting that main wanting to fire over to the left this time.
All was well, I was in a gentle left bank for a few moments, life was good, I was flying - albeit from the ground - again, and I laughed with silvertipped wings once again....
.... and then that cheeky little b__ch decided to keel over harder, the airframe went inverted, and tried to mimic a shovel. Darn good thing I have that ARF waiting for me at home, this poor beastie won't see the topside of a hover ever again without it!
So.. how the heck do you adjust to compensate for that damn annoying lateral disk movement???
Darryl Hadfield
Just Some Guy |
