Barge
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I got the 450L off the ground for the first time today, the other first was I flew a real RC heli for the first time, the only other experience was on Real Flight, and they both went reasonably well. It has been mentioned on the forum somewhere that there is no comparison between a real heli and the sims, and how right they are.
The first lift off was all over the place, luckily I has a fair bit of real estate to work with and eventually got it to a reasonably stable hover, done some cautious lefts and rights and then managed to get it on the ground in one piece. Happy about that I can assure you.
I noticed a couple of things going on, one was the tail was drop on lift off so I hooked the heli up to the PC and adjusted the collective pitch elevator precompensation value up 10% from 50 to 60, and it did have a bit of tail wag and I used the RD dial to knock a bit of gain out of the rudder and went to test flight round two.
It lifted off a lot better with the tail staying more horizontal and I did go up another 5% higher on the precompensation value which fairly well sorted that out. The wag had nearly gone so while it was in flight I tweaked the dial a bit more to correct that problem and landed again. I must admit it is a little bit of a handful at the moment but it is improving, that's the best part.
On lift off it also had the tendency to drift left which was easily compensated for, but out of curiosity I rechecked the swash plate and it was out a little, a bit low on the elevator and aileron so I adjusted the pitch down to even things up, I then went back through the DIR setup to redo the pitch and checked everything else out to make sure it was good to go.
I ended up running out of light, and I fly back to work tomorrow so that is the end of testing for 9 days. I must admit I was as nervous as with the maiden lift off, but after that first one was out of the way it became enjoyable to say the least.
The first lift off was all over the place, luckily I has a fair bit of real estate to work with and eventually got it to a reasonably stable hover, done some cautious lefts and rights and then managed to get it on the ground in one piece. Happy about that I can assure you.
I noticed a couple of things going on, one was the tail was drop on lift off so I hooked the heli up to the PC and adjusted the collective pitch elevator precompensation value up 10% from 50 to 60, and it did have a bit of tail wag and I used the RD dial to knock a bit of gain out of the rudder and went to test flight round two.
It lifted off a lot better with the tail staying more horizontal and I did go up another 5% higher on the precompensation value which fairly well sorted that out. The wag had nearly gone so while it was in flight I tweaked the dial a bit more to correct that problem and landed again. I must admit it is a little bit of a handful at the moment but it is improving, that's the best part.
On lift off it also had the tendency to drift left which was easily compensated for, but out of curiosity I rechecked the swash plate and it was out a little, a bit low on the elevator and aileron so I adjusted the pitch down to even things up, I then went back through the DIR setup to redo the pitch and checked everything else out to make sure it was good to go.
I ended up running out of light, and I fly back to work tomorrow so that is the end of testing for 9 days. I must admit I was as nervous as with the maiden lift off, but after that first one was out of the way it became enjoyable to say the least.