drtoothfixer
Senior Heliman
Location: Richland, WA
| I agree with Doug. I haven't been doing this long, but it sounds like your methods are a bit complicated for the task. One other thing to check: be sure you are measuring pitch with the blades parallel to the fuselage/tail boom. Don't worry about the pitch measurements on the built in pitch guage. I just built my first raptor, and had a very experienced pilot help me set it up. I put my collective servo in with teh wheel facing the tail (opposite the instructions) and placed the ball link on the closest position on the collective arm (not the end one, like the instructions showed). Then, at mid throttle, I set it all up at right angles, and ended up with about 0 degrees pitch just below mid throttle, and at full, I'm at +10, and at bottom, about -10. This makes the machine capable of great maneuvers, but also very easy to learn on, as long as you don't panic and pull down on the collective stick in a bind. You will bury your machine into the ground if you do. Try to measure the pitch of your blades eye-balling the flybar and with the blades parallel, like I said. You may find that you are closer than you think, and that you aren't getting so much pitch change. If you still are getting that much pitch, look CAREFULLY at how you have set up the collective, and review the instructions. As we say "measure twice, cut once". Have fun! Trevor |
