Wayne Mann
Senior Heliman
Location: United States of America
| Hi Maxime,
Actually both are important for hover stability, but the airfoil is the most important aspect. The airfoil can cause the model to be very soft right around center, like the Fun Tech F3C paddles do. The old K&S paddles that we use to use were a lot more touchy around center and required more fly bar weight to calm them down.
Leading edge weight has very little to do with how the paddles make the model respond, because both paddles are connected to the same fly bar and thus they cancel each other out. If you were using independent fly bars on a multi blade rotor head then you would definitely want CG corrected paddles to keep the paddles from being extremely sensitive to pitch changes in the paddles from cyclic inputs.
Wayne Mann |
