Bunter
10-16-2007, 03:30 PM
Hi all
Just wanted to say that last weekend I maidened my Mini-Titan !!!! And to say a big thanks to everyone here for helping with my newbie questions but especially to Finless for his incredibly useful videos!
After some cufuffle with having the aileron servos move the swash the wrong way, I fixed that and had rechecked my pitch curves, eCCPM swash interactions, and cyclic pitch. I woke at 7 Saturday morning and had to wait until the neighbours started mowing their lawn before I thought I could get it up in the garden. A few hops later and quite a bit of trim (right and forward) and I got it up to 4 ft or so in the garden. Checked the tracking and it was quite badly out ~2 cm between the blade tips. I set her down to tweak one of the top links to the blade grips but one turn made the low blade the higher one so it was still out. So I used the next links down (the long ones from the flybar mixer arms down to the swash) to try and correct. I got it closer but its still not perfect.
Question. Apart from vibration what are the symptoms associated with poor tracking?
It's an amazing feeling, that first flight....
Cheers all, and thanks again for all the help.
Bill
Just wanted to say that last weekend I maidened my Mini-Titan !!!! And to say a big thanks to everyone here for helping with my newbie questions but especially to Finless for his incredibly useful videos!
After some cufuffle with having the aileron servos move the swash the wrong way, I fixed that and had rechecked my pitch curves, eCCPM swash interactions, and cyclic pitch. I woke at 7 Saturday morning and had to wait until the neighbours started mowing their lawn before I thought I could get it up in the garden. A few hops later and quite a bit of trim (right and forward) and I got it up to 4 ft or so in the garden. Checked the tracking and it was quite badly out ~2 cm between the blade tips. I set her down to tweak one of the top links to the blade grips but one turn made the low blade the higher one so it was still out. So I used the next links down (the long ones from the flybar mixer arms down to the swash) to try and correct. I got it closer but its still not perfect.
Question. Apart from vibration what are the symptoms associated with poor tracking?
It's an amazing feeling, that first flight....
Cheers all, and thanks again for all the help.
Bill