Delay on condition change

[flyinfool]

I am about to start learning to do autos.
Is there a place that I have not yet found where I can set something to bring the engine back up gently if/when I need to bail on a bad looking auto?
I am running a TJ pro and just using the ATV ungrouped on an AUX channel to set RPM and on/off.
I really do not want to a couple of pros close to the ground if I need to bail.

[DavidH]

Jeff,
It will not be much of a problem. The rotor will already be turning 1500-1600 in the auto. Unless you let the rotor rpm get really low, then bailing out of an auto is not going to cause a problem with the Rev loc coming back on line.

Or another option is just flip back into Normal mode after you flip the TH switch.
Then when you come back up with the throttle it should do it just like you was taking off.

David

[flyinfool]

The problem that I am worried about is that if I need to bail on an auto, it will most likely be because the head speed has gotten way to low meaning that the pitch will be high and I will be near to the ground.

My throttle and pitch curves are identical above mid stick in normal and idle up, so I am not sure how being in normal mode would help ease the engine coming up.

I think I may have found it on page 74 of the manual. “Condition Delay Setting”
I will experiment with that tonight.

[DavidH]

Does the Revloc not have a soft start feature?
A couple of the other govenors have this feature.

David

[flyinfool]

I know that the GV-1 has a soft start. When I turn it on it takes almost 2 seconds to reach set speed.
I am not using the revlock, I have the TJ pro.
There is not a soft start on the TJ Pro. when I turn the TJ Pro on it slams the throttle to get the set speed.

[EricLarson]

I user the delay on the cyclic when switching modes but have not tried it on the throttle. Guess I never really thought about it. I will play with it also and see how it works.

[flyinfool]

It looks like the condition delay will do what I am looking for.
I now have it set for about .5 seconds to bring in the throttle and the gov.
I will not be able to try it in the air till next week.

[flyinfool]

I have tried it out.
I think I like it for now.
I am set for approx 0.5 seond delay which is just enough to stop the tail from going crazy when I come out of hold at low headspeed and high pitch.

[the collective]

There is not a soft start on the TJ Pro. when I turn the TJ Pro on it slams the throttle to get the set speed.

That's not entirely accurate... it's your throttle curve that's slamming the throttle, only after the RPM reaches the set point will the TJ Pro do anything at all. As long as the RPM is below the set point, the TJ Pro does nothing.

[flyinfool]

As long as the RPM is below the set point, the TJ Pro does nothing.

That is what I thought and read, but in practice my TC is set to around 250 rpm less than the gov speed. When I flip the switch to turn the gov on it hits the throttle hard.
I think that the feature that requires you to reach set speed before engagement only applies to the first time in a flight that the gov is engaged.

Even if the TJ does follow your throttle curve, the conditions that will cause you to bail on an auto will be low head speed and high stick position. This is what I want to soften.

The half-second delay that I now have feels great to me. Although this means that there is also a half second delay when I hit hold, which is a little weird feeling.

[the collective]

Just curious, what radio are we talking about here? My old Airtronics Infinity 1000H had a feature where you could indepently set a delay for entering a flight mode and for exiting a flight mode, so for example you could set a half second delay for exiting throttle hold, but a zero delay for entering throttle hold. I'm not sure if that feature is carried over to the Stylus, and my 9CH doesn't have any delay feature. I know the 9C Super does, but I haven't had a look at one yet to see how it's implemented.