View Full Version : Mini Titan pitching up at speed
Aussieheli
02-17-2008, 05:06 AM
My Heli is pitching up as it accelerates into fast forward flight. Not in the initial acceleration, but as it gets some speed up the nose is raising and having to be countered to keep it level. Sometimes the pitch up is quite severe.:bomb:
In the hover it sits flat, and it has almost no trim and will sit hands off for 2-3 seconds level.
Any ideas, is this normal?? How to fix??:(
I've checkedthe head, and all is 90 deg and aligned. I've played with moving the battery forward and back to change the CG, and it makes no difference.
ghtracey
02-17-2008, 02:31 PM
My Heli is pitching up as it accelerates into fast forward flight. Not in the initial acceleration, but as it gets some speed up the nose is raising and having to be countered to keep it level. Sometimes the pitch up is quite severe.:bomb:
In the hover it sits flat, and it has almost no trim and will sit hands off for 2-3 seconds level.
Any ideas, is this normal?? How to fix??:(
I've checkedthe head, and all is 90 deg and aligned. I've played with moving the battery forward and back to change the CG, and it makes no difference.
I'm pretty sure that this is a natural tendancy. All the helis on my sim do it. Haven't quite gotten the real thing up to that speed yet to tell you if it happens to mine.
Aussieheli
02-17-2008, 04:55 PM
I'm pretty sure that this is a natural tendancy. All the helis on my sim do it. Haven't quite gotten the real thing up to that speed yet to tell you if it happens to mine.
Graham, mine too . looked at heaps of models last night on G3.5, and most do it. Is this something you just have to live with?
What do other people find????
crabfu
02-19-2008, 04:03 AM
Compared to my Trex 450se v2, MT pitches up a lot in FFF, where the trex just want to stay like a rocket and go faster and faster. Pitching up is normal for this heli.... read about this tendency in rc heli magazine review a while back before I got the mt, but still surprised me the first time flying it and had the nose all of a sudden pitch up.
I've moved the battery as far forward as possible to give it a slight forward COG, which helps a bit. If you really are itching for speed, point the nose down a tad more and it won't take long to get used to it. Overall I just fly it a bit slower most of the time, and the tendency to pitch up isn't bad. I actually rather enjoy the slower graceful flights of the mt, it is stable and rather relaxing to fly around.
-Crabfu
Aussieheli
03-09-2008, 12:04 AM
Problem solved with a Sonic CNC head.
ghtracey
03-09-2008, 12:56 PM
Problem solved with a Sonic CNC head.
Where'd you find that? I was thinking of the xmseller one. Haven't seen sonic, and a google search didn't turn up much.
I believe it's "Sonix", and I believe the xmseller head is the sonix head.
-Aox
crabfu
03-09-2008, 07:45 PM
yeah I've heard that sonix and xmseller are the same. I have the xmseller head and tail and love them. I still get a bit of pitching up tendencies in fast forward flight though, especially when it's windy.
-Crabfu
ghtracey
03-09-2008, 08:37 PM
yeah I've heard that sonix and xmseller are the same. I have the xmseller head and tail and love them. I still get a bit of pitching up tendencies in fast forward flight though, especially when it's windy.
-Crabfu
Its a nice looking setup, seriously thinking of ordering it. Not that my skills needs it, mind you. I just would rather not go through the tracking crap, and well.... bling is always good. :P
crabfu
03-09-2008, 08:46 PM
Its a nice looking setup, seriously thinking of ordering it. Not that my skills needs it, mind you. I just would rather not go through the tracking crap, and well.... bling is always good. :P
lol, yeah I sure am far from NEEDING the bling, but I'm addicted to it!
-Crabfu
ghtracey
03-09-2008, 09:37 PM
lol, yeah I sure am far from NEEDING the bling, but I'm addicted to it!
-Crabfu
xmseller doesn't list the bue bits anymore.... /cry :P