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Guys,
Apologies if this has been asked before or is in the wrong place: just point me in the right direction and I'll shut up!
As a newbie with a Mini Pred 3D I'm hoping you can point me to a good on-line resource or even a book that describes the mechanics of helicopter flight in a manner that is appropriate to us model flyers. The sort of gen I'm after is how the controls interact in flight so that I can be better prepared when things start to go wrong or better still avoid getting in to trouble in the first place.
For example, I only learned from a mate the other day that when you initially lift off, the helicopter will have a tendancy to roll and drift left which will stop once airbourne - I'd been trying to correct that with trim and was wondering why the damn thing kept drifting right in flight.
Another example, I don't know what will happen if the helicopter is banked and tracking right and I apply left rudder so that it starts flying backwards. I could try it and find out, but the chances are that knowledge will cost me £30 in spares. Would it be any different if it was flying forwards and suddenly yawed left? What if rotor was level when this happened?
So that's the kind of info I'm after: a kind of fore-warned is fore-armed set of rules and guidance that will help take me from hovering and tracking around gingerly, tain-in to more natural figure-of-8 type fying with circuits and quick but smooth changes of direction with plenty of bank on.
many thanks for your help,
Si G
Apologies if this has been asked before or is in the wrong place: just point me in the right direction and I'll shut up!
As a newbie with a Mini Pred 3D I'm hoping you can point me to a good on-line resource or even a book that describes the mechanics of helicopter flight in a manner that is appropriate to us model flyers. The sort of gen I'm after is how the controls interact in flight so that I can be better prepared when things start to go wrong or better still avoid getting in to trouble in the first place.
For example, I only learned from a mate the other day that when you initially lift off, the helicopter will have a tendancy to roll and drift left which will stop once airbourne - I'd been trying to correct that with trim and was wondering why the damn thing kept drifting right in flight.
Another example, I don't know what will happen if the helicopter is banked and tracking right and I apply left rudder so that it starts flying backwards. I could try it and find out, but the chances are that knowledge will cost me £30 in spares. Would it be any different if it was flying forwards and suddenly yawed left? What if rotor was level when this happened?
So that's the kind of info I'm after: a kind of fore-warned is fore-armed set of rules and guidance that will help take me from hovering and tracking around gingerly, tain-in to more natural figure-of-8 type fying with circuits and quick but smooth changes of direction with plenty of bank on.
many thanks for your help,
Si G
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