jbeech
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Location: Sanford, FL (Orlando area)
| No, it's my experience the Hyper can only pull about 12 degrees of pitch before it runs out of steam. However, you will soon discover that the situation you describe never occurs in actual practice because full collective and full cyclic pitch don't occur simultaneously. What happens is the pilot will reduce collective pitch to pretty close to zero degrees whilst performing maneuvers which use maximum cyclic pitch. Hence, in practice, the most the engine sees is the max-cyclic opitch input plus the small amount of collective pitch . . . but this is nowhere near stalling the blades. Where does that happen? Depending on airfoil, the stall begins to occur around 15-17 degrees.
How interesting that you should make this post as I just had a similar conversation with a Tiger 50 owner on the telephone!
By the way, you can squeeze more cyclic pitch than that out of the Tiger. The trick is to flip the switch to enter a symmetrical pitch Idle up mode (be it Idle 1 or Idle 2), but I mean your -11,0,+11 degree flight mode. next, go tot he transmitter menu which corresponds to Swashplate in Futaba and JR radios (with a setting for Aileron, Elevator, and Pitch).
Next, center the sticks so the model is at 0 degrees pitch. Then hold full right cyclic stick on the transmitter (right aileron form now on, OK?) and peer at the bottom of the swashplate. Now increase the Aileron setting until the bottom of the swashplate almost touches the mainshaft. Check to the left and make adjustments as needed. Do the same for elevator. I find it's around 85% for both aileron and elevator when ATV is at 100% and the arm lengths are as described in the manual. This works out to about 8 degrees, or so of cyclic.
John Beech - GM (and janitor)
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