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Heliman
Location: Cream Ridge New Jersey
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Missed everyone at the field today. Perfect day to fly.
I made my first flight attempt with the new V-Bar Trex. Check out the photos in my gallery. Nearly a disaster but actually worked out very well. I learned two really important things.
1. When you take away the flybar you take away the visual setup rules you are use to. For example, no flybar means no intermediate lever which means when the swash goes up, the heli wants to go down now. Just didn't think about it when I was setting it up. After configuring the software in the V-Bar I verified righ and left movement corresponding to my stick, forward and back movement was also good, so I knew my aerilon and elevator was correct. I also observed the swash moving up when my stick went up. All is well right. No way. So my first attempt at flight was nearly a disaster because I spooled up the engine and the heli leaped into the air. It's a good thing I had the heli set on ST-1 so I had the right throttle curve active. After a moment of terror I realized the heli was acting the same way as it would inverted so I put my mind into inverted flight, landed it and put it into throttle hold. All is well, just a little knee nocking. A little weird landing a helicopter on it's skids with full collective.
2. Started a new model because the V-Bar system wants a very plain standard setup. Went over everything three times but missed one thing, Reversing the throttle servo. So my first start was a bit hard on the clutch. Managed again to hit the throttle in the opposite direction to make it idle before cutting it off by the fuel line. Again, no big deal and no damage.
Still had problems getting the swash level. Seemed to keep moving until I finally realized I had a bad servo horn, and no spares. So that ended my first day of V-Bar testing. Learned a lot. Confident that next time she will fly. I think I got this thing down now. |
