pariah
Senior Heliman
Location: West Valley City, UT - United States of America
| In general, engines don't produce full power until they've been broken in. Until then, power that could be used to move the helicopter is used to overcome friction between the engine's parts sliding against one another. The difference in power is fairly significant.
It's a process that takes gallons of fuel, so I'm not too surprised to hear that a new machine (presumably with a new engine) isn't performing like a well-tuned machine.
As far as cyclics go - different paddles do matter, and that's one of the reasons why hyperperformance has a 4mm flybar conversion - so you have a wider selection of paddles to choose from. The 5mm flybar has two downsides to it: 1.) Fewer paddles to choose from. 2.) More mass - which means slower cyclic response. That said, I'm still flying the stock SAB paddles and flybar.
There's a big difference between the blades biting the air and the blades barking. When blades bark, it's because the blades are wobbling in and out of track - the severe case leading to 'woof and poof'.
The less severe case (ie. normal blade barking) is because the blades flex in the air. As they flex, they go a bit out of track, and you hear them "bark" as the blades vibrate in and out of track.
Stiffer blades can go a long way towards reducing blade barking, as does increased mass .90 sized blades are both stronger, stiffer, and heavier than 600mm blades used in a .50.
I know when I went from TT to Vblade 600's the blades more or less stopped barking on that machine.
Radix blades are supposed to be high on the stiffness scale as well. Go back to a pair of flexible blades if you want them to bark.
As for the tail - the soft stopping is definitely the gyro and its settings. The N9 can stop very, very hard. Hard enough to strip gears if you have your settings wrong - which is why there is a published set of settings to use for people with the GY611 - I know you don't have that gyro, so you probably need to learn what the equivalent settings are on your gyro.
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Helicopters & Women: The last thing I want is one whose head has a few loose screws. |
