Auto rotation, driven tail ??

[electricsceadu]

i can't speak to the exact method on the raptor 30/50 is as i've never own one
but it will bolt the tail drive pulley directly to the mainshaft

on the sceadu the 30 has a solid one piece (twin geared) main gear/tail drive gear for the non-driven tail bolted onto the auto hub
the driven tail has a two piece gear were the tail drive gear bolts onto the main shaft with the main gear is bolted onto the auto hub
and the ratio are the same so they can be swopped over to your liking

[Tosh]

30s and smaller hardly auto at all.

This is one funny thread.

[Rotormotor]

So how to you change directon?

Maintain forward flight and then turn the heli like you would a plane?

As without any drive to the tail your rudder inputs wont work.
I think this was Andy was getting at rather than implying that a turn would be impossible... you just have to use a different method

Yep, as someone else explained, you keep it moving forward so that there is a relative wind over the tail, and you use left/right cyclic, like in a plane, to turn. This relative wind over the vertical fin will insure it just follows the headings the heli is flying as it turns.

There is also a "poor man's driven tail" that one can set-up. If you set your idle a bit on the hih sideso that it just engages the clutch, it will turn the tail rotor at a relatively low speed, without delivering power to the main rotor shaft. As it does not have to counter torque, this lower tail rotor speed will be enough to provide basic tail rotor control on the way down and during the flare to the landing.

Technically speaking, this is still an auto, because the maingear with the auto bearing in the center, would still be turning at a lower speed then the mainrotor, so it would not be delivering any power to it.

This was just discussed by the FAI heli subcommitee in Muncie Indiana during the last W/C's, and they decided that in the future, the heli engine will NOT have to be shut off, but will only have to be set at a low enough idle to not be delivering power to the mainrotor during the auto maneuvers.