Going fbl

[heliharry]

well decided to go all fbl on my 700s.Going to use the new spektrum fbl systems and the align heads.Will let you know how it goes

[kylelnsn]

What are the overall benefits of going FBL?

[Geek]

It's a bit like Marmite
you love it or hate it.

Try it on one first Harry

[heliharry]

we asked this and was told multiple reasons. One, extended flight times over the flybar setup. Two, flying in the wind, it is sooooo much more stable. Three, during crashes there is far less mechanical damage. Four, instead of spending hours adjusting and modding mechanical linkage setups and trying to set up the flybar effectively for your particular build, now you simply adjust the settings in whatever decent fbl controller you get and you are finished.

[rachel]

What are the overall benefits of going FBL?

You loose the stick thingy with the square drink coasters on it!
So when you crash it's cheaper ! Lol


As geek said it's a marmite thing, I found a well set up fbl heli is like flying a very wel set up locked in F3C heli with the response of a t Rex 600 running 2400rpm on the head .
Oh. Useful side effect is your squey Align will actually flip straight.
Good luck x Rachel

[jwatts007]

What are the overall benefits of going FBL?

They fly better without the flybar............

[Planehazza]

Only downside (if you can call it that) is it doesn't feel as natural in the air - more like it's on rails. FBL is great IMO - as the other harry says, no hours setting up many links to get the head set up, it's more agile etc.

Battery packs dont last quite as long as the servos have to work a little harder. IRS not massive though.

Oh, ad they look so cool

FBL all the way for me

[nigelbrogan]

Fbl rocks.


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[millerman]

we asked this and was told multiple reasons. One, extended flight times over the flybar setup. Two, flying in the wind, it is sooooo much more stable. Three, during crashes there is far less mechanical damage. Four, instead of spending hours adjusting and modding mechanical linkage setups and trying to set up the flybar effectively for your particular build, now you simply adjust the settings in whatever decent fbl controller you get and you are finished.

Whilest some of this is true setting up the 3GX is not no where near as
Easy as the v-bar Skookum or beast x as setup with the 3gx is still using the transmitter 120deg swash mix where the others are 1 servo
Tbh you would be far better off with an alternative fbl system to learn with as the 3Gx really needs good knowledge of fbl systems to fly as wel
l as the others

Just noticed your gonna use the spektrum beast x jobby
Note to self read posts first lol


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[Gate88]

we asked this and was told multiple reasons. One, extended flight times over the flybar setup. Two, flying in the wind, it is sooooo much more stable. Three, during crashes there is far less mechanical damage. Four, instead of spending hours adjusting and modding mechanical linkage setups and trying to set up the flybar effectively for your particular build, now you simply adjust the settings in whatever decent fbl controller you get and you are finished.

And dont forget the extra power! You are no longer pushing a flybar and paddles through the air so you have more power thru the main blades, conservative estimates say 10-15% more but I have seen more outragous claims of 20-25%. I dont know what the actual amount is but it's very noticable!

[johnsandywhite]

I absolutely love my 550E FBL. The only thing I do NOT like is it can be a bit of a pain on rocky/gravelly/unstable ground.

[AcidDrink]

Less work, more fun.

[Nick B]

Im always hooking my paddles with my neckstrap when putting in lipos

[challis349]

Im always hooking my paddles with my neckstrap when putting in lipos

And they bloody stick out in the car Haha

[millerman]

Im always hooking my paddles with my neckstrap when putting in lipos

and thats why they are no good mate get rid of em