ff9 help

[mackem54]

hi guys,
need help with setting up ff9,
tues and wed i was out at the local field,no problem nailing steady hover changeable wind but still managed to nail it a couple of guys(harry and dick many thanks)were a great help and suggested i was past the hover stage and should try hovering off to the right and left managed this no problem, practiced again next day no prob again,i was using my ff6, so last night i set up(or at least thought i had) my ff9 with basically the same parameters,airleron end travel 75% rudder 80% cyclic 75% dual rate 100% and 80%,i am using a 401 gyro and a 9253 servo,i set up idle 1 as it says in the manual but had no intention of trying it till i trimmed the bird,
i set the gyro up rate at 72% and tried to set the down rate at 54%as it says in the futaba manual but when i did this,
when i went into h/h the gyro would not register as in h/h.
i dropped the rate to 49.5& and it registered,when i tried to take off the bird even in h/h just seemed to have a mind of its own the tail would not stay straight and kept wanting to go to the left (from the back, any suggestions where im going wrong lads :x

sorry mate i cannot help you there,all i can say is that im not looking forward to trying to work out how to fly and set up my heli....its agood job there are so many helpful people on this site.

[Mack]

Why bother answering if you don't know the answer? Is it maybe to generate points?

[chappers]

bring it to the field on sunday ill have a look for you

no its not to generate points,i just know how the guy feels as i have all that to come yet.

[mackem54]

ff9

cheers chappers,
i am reading the manual again to see if i can work it out 8O

fuel

what type of fuel do i need to run an engine that has not been run for over 15 minutes.



oops that was meant to be a new topic.deduct 1 point please.

[antsis]

Mackem

Not to familiar with the gy401, but I'm using the CSM400 and 560 which are both HH gyros. On the FF9, I presume you are referring to the gyro menu.
From what I can see, this is to set the gyro for different styles or flight modes.

On my ff9, I don't use this at all. All my gyro gain settings are done in the endpoints menu. If you look at chan 5, there is usually a value for normal and HH and these are switched by SW F. With my R60's, I set both end points to 60%, as suggested by the manual, and then played with the settings until the model was stable. If the gain is too high, you normally get tail wag and if it's too low then the model will drift to the left. I found that if the gain was reduced lower that 30%, the gyro becomes ineffective.

It works for me and as far as I know, the guys using the 401 set them up in the same way.

Hope this helps.

[G-DAVE]

No need for the gyro program - I have a ZAP Tx so I think the FF9 will be similar.
Just plug rx lead to channel 4, and the other to channel 5
That's it.
Now you just use the gyro channel A.T.V's to change the gain.
and your channel 5 switch to select HHold.
Job Done !