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Location: UK. Herts
| There's flybarless and flybarless. Most helis can be made to be flybarless but with a much greater skill required to keep it all together unless you utilse gyros. The application of gyro stabalisation is still in its infancy and with only one established system currently out there means there is much work to be done in order to make the costs attractive enough for more folk to get onboard. It will be a gradual and evolutionary process although there will still be quite a high minimum cost due to the basic requirement of a high quality gyro element such as that manufactured by Analog Devices. Unless the elements are low drift and temperature compensated, the stabalisation systems will be very unstable so it is fair to say that flybarless will always cost more. You pay for what you get, performance.
By virtue of the basic requirements of a flybarless system, all mechanics need to be very much spot on, anything other than well setup linkages will lead to big problems, servos need to be a fairly high spec and the physical construction of the parts used in the control system need to be robust and strong, otherwise the heli will not live for long. With these issues satisfied, the setup (& programming) issues are also far more engaging than conventional setups but in the final analysis, the helis will be far more precice and tolerant of such issues as phasing, leading to better tracking through manouvers as well as benefiting from an increase in available power to the head and ofcourse, stability.
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