Weathervane effect

[mka260]

Hey Guys,
Would anyone have any recommendations for tame-ing the weathervane effect I noticed when attempting to fly backwards. It could be a bad case of nerves but, when I rotated from forward flight to backward flight I notice it is difficult to maintain "tail first" flight above a certain speed.
I was flying a stock Raptor 50 setup with the help of the "helifreak group" (Thanks Again!) and using a Futaba GY401 gyro in HH /S9253 tail rotor servo.

[Spitfire_mk5]

Big TR blades, high gain, nerves and high headspeed is what you need.
Also being very smooth on collective and not bogging it at all really helps -- bog == forward flight.


Though my rappy 50 blows out in backwards pretty easily at the moment, unlike a fury :wink: , will be trying some MAH 90 blades to see if it helps (was running 80 somethings before) and hope they hold it.


Someone should make a speedup gear for the rappy tail!

[mka260]

Thanks for the help. Another suggestion made to me was a 3D vertical tail fin besides the recommendations you made. Let me know if larger tail rotor blades helps on your heli.

[Clintstone]

Check the belt also....if it is loose you got a GOOSE.............

[Spitfire_mk5]

if the weather ever warms up this is what i'm trying if it doens't hold nothing will

http://www.spitfiresrc.dyndns.org/Mah2.jpg

[ThBrtmn]

:rolling
nice picture.