JCadwell
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Location: Richland WA/ Morro Bay, CA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | "I want my.... heading hold heading hold heading hold"
Sheesh. After a crazy bought with trying to get this thing running right (it turns out I ended up having the idle needle too far in to start it. Richen it, starts right up) I finally got the bird in the air. I am flying an Enya 35 with 10% Byrons. The tail is a Hitec 525BB with a CSM 180 piezo. After flying my sceadu with the GY501 for many moons, I want my heading hold back. Seeing as how I am a po bastid, and college student to boot (I have ebayed most of my worldly posessions), I need to purchase some more stuff.
It flys pretty nice. I had way too much pitch for the engine to start with. I had about 10.5 up, and it couldn't pull it with 550s. Not a surprise. Dialed the pitch back to where it was only slightly bogging, and it flew pretty good. The OS50 in the Sceadu sure spoiled me though. Sheesh. I flew a whole tank of hovering, forward flight, and circles. The wind was gusting up to about 20, and it was fun trying to combat the weathervane all the time. I had messed up revo mixing as well, so every altitude change made that much more left hand mess to deal with. All in all, once I got the engine set up, I had a good time. I can't comment on the stability of the bird since the wind was high, but it seemed more skittery and less stable than the sceadu. Part of that is wind, and part of that is a more conservative sceadu setup. I have the hawk setup for 3D per the manual.
Now for the big questions. It is new gyro time. I have a telebee that is toasted in some intermittent way, that works half the time. That is 100% not good. So I am looking at the GY240 and 401. Both of these work with the slower servos, with the 401 accepting the faster frame rate too. The 240 has no external control. Is there anything else different? I really can't afford the 220-230 plus for the 401 and a servo, especially this being the ship I want to practice dumb things with. I could weasel myself into living on Ramen for a week or two and buy the GY401 outright for 160ish. But then I would have to use the 525 with it. Will it work? Later on the digital looks like a good deal, when sticker shock from this bird wears off. But if all I want is heading hold, what additional features does the 401 have? I want something to put in heading hold, and leave there all the time. Comments welcomed, lively debate expected, thanks.
Thanks, John Cadwell |
. I could not go back to a 30 size either......
