Pinecone
02-13-2008, 05:18 PM
I was talking to Harold at Helicopter Hobbies today.
He was telling me they found a setup that really helps the pitch and roll. Apparently this reduces te elevator sensitivity in FF and makes the rolls more axial.
It turns out when they did the EX, they used some head parts (mainly for this, the washout arms) from a larger heli in the line. This ends up with the washout arm ratiso wrong and too much flybar pitch. With the stock setup, the flybar maxs out at about 33 degrees of motion, which is WAY too much.
So what you do, is move the balls on the washout arms in one hole. Now the washout arm isn't set up screw the balls in closer, so you have to make a spacer to fit the large lightening hole there. This mod also straightens the link angles.
See pic (from HH website).
The other thing, he is getting longer flybar arms made that will accomplish the same thing at the upper end. But they will be the stock single arms, so no help to those who upgraded to the flybar cage setup.
He was telling me they found a setup that really helps the pitch and roll. Apparently this reduces te elevator sensitivity in FF and makes the rolls more axial.
It turns out when they did the EX, they used some head parts (mainly for this, the washout arms) from a larger heli in the line. This ends up with the washout arm ratiso wrong and too much flybar pitch. With the stock setup, the flybar maxs out at about 33 degrees of motion, which is WAY too much.
So what you do, is move the balls on the washout arms in one hole. Now the washout arm isn't set up screw the balls in closer, so you have to make a spacer to fit the large lightening hole there. This mod also straightens the link angles.
See pic (from HH website).
The other thing, he is getting longer flybar arms made that will accomplish the same thing at the upper end. But they will be the stock single arms, so no help to those who upgraded to the flybar cage setup.