Flying a Bell Medivac with Futaba 9C

[Flybar]

On my Futaba6 it's in the heli. mode and on Swash1. I don't know anything about the 9 far toooo coplex for me yet.

[Gaza07]

You deff need to be setup in aero mode and make sure your in ppm not pcm

[Sesame]

I dont know much about these little helis but I just wonder if your using the crystal out the set that came with it then is not going to be a futaba crystal, just thinking maybe thats what is not working, can you get hold of a futaba transmitter crystal on the same channel just to try?

[petervdb]

After reading this thread I thought I would have a go too. I have a JR PCM 9XII radio. I got it working quite quickly once I had discoverd that the swash is controlled by channel 1 and 2, throttle channel 3 and rudder channel 4. On my radion throttle is channel 1, so I did have an instance of the medivac jumping into the air at one point.

I used a heli set up, normal swash mode, stick mode 1 to get it to behave like stick mode 2 by moving the throttle channel over to the right. I also had to play around with programmable mixing to get the swash to follow the stick inputs.

Now its running fine on my JR and actually feels a little more responsive. Thanks for firing up my interest to have a go at this.

Peter

[Gaza07]

Have you checked to make sure your radio is in ppm mode and not pcm

[zoobs]

I'm a novice novice if there is such a thing and I would also like to try and fly my Medevac with my FF7 (old style) but I'm a little unclear as to how you are setting this up?? Do you put a futaba crystal into the Medevac? or do you change the crystal in the tranny to match the Medevac?
Sorry if this is a dumb question

[DuncG]

Guys you are all wizards.

The Key to solving my issue was Sesame words of genius. I was using the crystal from the Bell TX in the Futaba. By changing the TX back to a Futaba crystal and changing the RX in the heli to a Futaba crystal all of a sudden things started to go right.

So just for the record these are my settings:

1 - I have a Futaba crystal in both the 9C TX and the heli
2 - The model in parameters is set to heli SW1
3 - The modul in parameters is set to PPM
4 - I needed to reverse channel 3 - the throttle

That is all I needed to do

It works great, although it is harder to fly now, just what I expected. I was getting so used to the TX that came with the Bell that I was loosing touch with the 9C. The practice with the 9C will be great for my larger heli.

Thanks to everyone that helped me solve this issue.

Cheers Dunc

[marktigere1]

Glad your sorted

[Sesame]

yes, glad to be of service

[David Drew]

DuncG

Thanks for doing all the legwork for me I've been off the site for a few days & have just come back to see you've solved all the questions I was going to ask. Brill!

That's a little job for me for this weekend. Get my Medivac onto my FF7.

Thanks for all the input all the rest of you. This really is the site for mutual help.

Cheers all

David