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Okay, so I've done a few searches and read a lot of posts which go somewhere to explain some of the problems that I've had, but I thought I'd pop my forum cherry and ask for a bit of advice. . .
I took my 450 sport v2 out for it's second ever outing this afternoon in gentle wind. . . I had a little bit of trimming to do (which I found to be quite some task while the little heli was being buffeted around) but things were going okay. . .
Once trimmed, I started to experiment with my basic hover (although I've spent the last eight months plugging away in Phoenix and buzzing my little brushless McpX , I'm pretty new to flying in the real world!) and noticed that there was a little bit of very slow tail drift. A few gentle rudder inputs led to the expected corrections, so I decided to try a bit of side on hover and a few pirouettes. I've got to say that I was not overly impressed with the 'feeling' of the turns with respect to my rudder inputs. I also noticed a small amount of what I assume to be tail-wag. Now, I know that this is a known issue with the GP780 but thought that with a little bit of tweaking of the gyro settings I could surely solve this. . . Hmmm. . . Began to get a bit of an improvement, but to be honest it was still not feeling great.
Well, I probably should have stopped there, but couldn't help myself but try a bit of simple forward flight with the heli in idle-up mode (I'm confident performing forward flight squares, circles, stall turns etc on the sim and with the McpX)
This is where my troubles began. It would seem that on random occasions the heli would suddenly decide to change its orientation as if a sudden sharp rudder input had been made (which it hadn't). I would say that if it weren't for my experience on the sim and McpX I would have been in some real trouble and would not have managed to regain control. From that moment, the heli would then not respond to my rudder inputs, or rather would intermittently react, then 'stick' in that direction, unresponsive. Obviously, I did what I could to get into a controlled level hover and nurse the heli back to a nice landing.
The Gyro setting on my dx6i was set to 63%. I wondered if it may be something to do with the headspeed change, so tried upping the settings to 73% and braved another flight. I had exactly the same problem, and was not enjoying the trouser-filling moments of recovery so landed again and put the McpX up instead for some joy before heading home. Oh, and what joy it was to fly something with SHARP rudder response, rock solid even in the gusty conditions! I even managed a couple of half piro flips, loops and some nice solid pirouetting hovers before running out of juice! So nice to finish on a high. . .
So do I look straight away at the most common solution and get myself a Spartan Quark and be done with it, or is there someone out there with some advice that might solve this problem? It seems rather odd to me that the gyro can give such problems straight out of the box, with a brand new heli, but as I read more and more, I become less and less surprised, merely disappointed with what I've been sold. . .
Hope someone can help. . . I really want to get some solid flying time in before the summer (haha!) is over!
Thanks,
Matt
I took my 450 sport v2 out for it's second ever outing this afternoon in gentle wind. . . I had a little bit of trimming to do (which I found to be quite some task while the little heli was being buffeted around) but things were going okay. . .
Once trimmed, I started to experiment with my basic hover (although I've spent the last eight months plugging away in Phoenix and buzzing my little brushless McpX , I'm pretty new to flying in the real world!) and noticed that there was a little bit of very slow tail drift. A few gentle rudder inputs led to the expected corrections, so I decided to try a bit of side on hover and a few pirouettes. I've got to say that I was not overly impressed with the 'feeling' of the turns with respect to my rudder inputs. I also noticed a small amount of what I assume to be tail-wag. Now, I know that this is a known issue with the GP780 but thought that with a little bit of tweaking of the gyro settings I could surely solve this. . . Hmmm. . . Began to get a bit of an improvement, but to be honest it was still not feeling great.
Well, I probably should have stopped there, but couldn't help myself but try a bit of simple forward flight with the heli in idle-up mode (I'm confident performing forward flight squares, circles, stall turns etc on the sim and with the McpX)
This is where my troubles began. It would seem that on random occasions the heli would suddenly decide to change its orientation as if a sudden sharp rudder input had been made (which it hadn't). I would say that if it weren't for my experience on the sim and McpX I would have been in some real trouble and would not have managed to regain control. From that moment, the heli would then not respond to my rudder inputs, or rather would intermittently react, then 'stick' in that direction, unresponsive. Obviously, I did what I could to get into a controlled level hover and nurse the heli back to a nice landing.
The Gyro setting on my dx6i was set to 63%. I wondered if it may be something to do with the headspeed change, so tried upping the settings to 73% and braved another flight. I had exactly the same problem, and was not enjoying the trouser-filling moments of recovery so landed again and put the McpX up instead for some joy before heading home. Oh, and what joy it was to fly something with SHARP rudder response, rock solid even in the gusty conditions! I even managed a couple of half piro flips, loops and some nice solid pirouetting hovers before running out of juice! So nice to finish on a high. . .
So do I look straight away at the most common solution and get myself a Spartan Quark and be done with it, or is there someone out there with some advice that might solve this problem? It seems rather odd to me that the gyro can give such problems straight out of the box, with a brand new heli, but as I read more and more, I become less and less surprised, merely disappointed with what I've been sold. . .
Hope someone can help. . . I really want to get some solid flying time in before the summer (haha!) is over!
Thanks,
Matt
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