WhirlingBladesOfDeath
04-08-2007, 03:33 AM
Hello everyone. I've been lurking for the past week or two, but finally got registered today.
I bought my CPP about 3 weeks ago. I found Radd's beginner guide and followed that more or less for my first 10 packs. I'm happy to say, I made it through my first 15 packs with no damage to my helicopter, but after that I started getting a bit more adventuresome and have since had my share of battle wounds. :lol: Sometimes I start to get a bit frustrated now that I'm trying to get the hang of left and right side hover, but then remember how daunting tail in hover felt at first. That's a piece of cake now, so I'm sure side hovering will come soon enough.
I really enjoy tinkering with my toys, so I've already modified my CPP quite a bit. I know at my level, the stock setup is just fine, but I just can't help myself!.... So I've added the G90 gyro, DD tail with the GWS 3x2 prop, and brushless upgrade.
So to my tail question. The last couple days I've started playing with powering up from my hover and giving forward cyclic. It's pretty fun, I get it to really take off pretty good, fly it straight out for 100 feet or so, and then slowly fly it backward towards me. Regain stable hover and repeat. The thing I'm struggling with is I really have to give what I feel is alot of right rudder if I increase throttle to fast. For example, if I don't give any cyclic, but just briefly roll onto 100% throttle and then back off again, the tail will be probably be 90 degrees CCW. (Which got me all buggered up and caused one of my crashes :oops: ) My LHS says that's normal for a twin motor setup, since there is a bit of a lag between the main rotor speed and tail rotor speed. But shouldn't the gyro be able to handle that? It's not that the tail doesn't have enough power, because I can hold it straight with preemptive tail input, and this is more that just a little drift. I imagine like with the hover, after a bit you just naturally compensate, it's just I thought the G90 would be able to handle this relatively tame maneuver?
Anyways, thanks for reading this far and any suggestions or comments appreciated.
Thanks!
Jason
I bought my CPP about 3 weeks ago. I found Radd's beginner guide and followed that more or less for my first 10 packs. I'm happy to say, I made it through my first 15 packs with no damage to my helicopter, but after that I started getting a bit more adventuresome and have since had my share of battle wounds. :lol: Sometimes I start to get a bit frustrated now that I'm trying to get the hang of left and right side hover, but then remember how daunting tail in hover felt at first. That's a piece of cake now, so I'm sure side hovering will come soon enough.
I really enjoy tinkering with my toys, so I've already modified my CPP quite a bit. I know at my level, the stock setup is just fine, but I just can't help myself!.... So I've added the G90 gyro, DD tail with the GWS 3x2 prop, and brushless upgrade.
So to my tail question. The last couple days I've started playing with powering up from my hover and giving forward cyclic. It's pretty fun, I get it to really take off pretty good, fly it straight out for 100 feet or so, and then slowly fly it backward towards me. Regain stable hover and repeat. The thing I'm struggling with is I really have to give what I feel is alot of right rudder if I increase throttle to fast. For example, if I don't give any cyclic, but just briefly roll onto 100% throttle and then back off again, the tail will be probably be 90 degrees CCW. (Which got me all buggered up and caused one of my crashes :oops: ) My LHS says that's normal for a twin motor setup, since there is a bit of a lag between the main rotor speed and tail rotor speed. But shouldn't the gyro be able to handle that? It's not that the tail doesn't have enough power, because I can hold it straight with preemptive tail input, and this is more that just a little drift. I imagine like with the hover, after a bit you just naturally compensate, it's just I thought the G90 would be able to handle this relatively tame maneuver?
Anyways, thanks for reading this far and any suggestions or comments appreciated.
Thanks!
Jason