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  • Flybarless N5

    At Charmouth at the weekend, Roger Hamilton from Climb-Out turned up with a nice surprise. He opened the back of his car and showed us his N5, complete with the official Synergy flybarless head, and BeastX controller. It hadn't even been test flown yet, so Roger finished the setup and had a very brief test hover on the Saturday evening.

    Sunday morning came, and off we went for its first "proper" flight. I was very apprehensive, being somewhat "against" FBL, but I was genuinely shocked and surprised how well it flew. Very very natural feeling, no odd shakes or nods, just a little slow on the cyclics. One tank down and Danny Lock helped us tune the cyclic speed a little, and also increased the tail stop gains (i think! - pot 3 was tuend up i think). Danny took it for a quick flight, then handed it over again, and the feel was much better. Faster cyclics, but still very locked in. The only down point was the engine. A KME 60 which just wasn't performing like we hoped, but none the less, the machine was awesome. Can't wait for the call from Roger to say mine is in





    Jamie

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    Thats it decision made, watch this space. What was wrong with the KME Jamie
    Humble owner of 7 Eddie Gold Stars and Ex - member of Mk Heli Club
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    • #3
      Lack of grunt. Seems to make half reasonable power, then gets hot as youwork it hard and the power just drops away badly. Same thing I found with my KME, bubt Roger has the matched pipe on his, so a real disappointment at this stage.

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      • #4
        Knew you would join us on the dark side
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        • #5
          Truly a thing of beauty but if it doesn't deliver. Didn't look bad in the vid I saw from IRCHA last year
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