Taming the beast

[Dan MacKay]

Hi Guys,
I have a .30 V2 with the Marvik all metal head and tail. I have been hovering this bird a bit but have not finished the breakin. I am using a Futaba 14MZ Tx. I was wondering how to go about reducing the cyclic on one of these beasts. I am used to CCPM 120 and just adjusting the swash menu. For this set up there does not applear to be one. I have a ton of cyclic that I might appreciate were I flying 3D but for right now I would just like a nice docile bird to putz about with.

Thanks,

Dan

[z11355]

lower the ATV setting of the AIL and ELE servos.

you might also consider moving the ball on the servo arms IN by 1 hole (which would
lower things enough to probably require you to bump up the ATVs to compensate)

[bgjames111]

I would tame it down using expo in your radio. Be careful about limiting endpoints, as you may need it to save it from a crash. I believe with futaba, putting a negative value for aileron and elevator will smooth things out around center.

[z11355]

it's hard to tell if he needs to reduce ATV a bit or add expo or a bit of both without
knowing how many degrees of cyclic pitch he actually has.

[bgjames111]

true. I usually max out my swash movement until you don't get binding on the swash when the cyclic is in the corners. Then I use 10% expo to tame it just a tad. When I was learning though, I used about 35% expo.

[Dan MacKay]

Hi guys,

I had the heli out today and ran a few tanks through it doing not much more than hovering to finish breaking in the engine. I never actually gauged the total cyclic but I bet that I likely have about 20 degrees in all axis at least or just shy of the swash binding. I am tried setting the expo to 15 and it was much better, I might bump that up a bit tomorrow. It is not unmangeable just seemed to be very responsive to input, more so than my as of yet inexperienced hands found comfortable.

If I changed the ATV on the servo's to reign in the cyclic would this not have a detrimental effect (reduce) the pitch?

Thanks,

Dan

[bgjames111]

I would once again suggest not limiting atv's try using a little more expo.