rbort
Elite Veteran
Location: Franklin, MA - U.S.A.
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Flyable againI got my Spectra up in the air yesterday afternoon. Put the stock 231 in it that I had laying around as a spare and went out to the field. A couple of tracking turns on the links and she was good. Full power climbout too much top end pitch on positive and too little on negative, so I turned both links in 3 turns and it balanced out. 231 making some good power climbing well, not much worse than my G26, its just broken in so in the peak of its performance so to speak. Also noticed the increased gas mileage, don't really need a 16oz tank with the 231, I think I can get away with a 14oz easy for a 15 minute flight. Anyway its temporary for now until I get my Hanson G26 back from Al.
Some issues tough, tail rotor seems to be drifting left all the time needs about 7 clicks in heading hold to hold steady on a 611 gyro. Unusual, not sure what that is at the moment. Also when I flip it around it sometimes seems to gyrate more than I think or expect. Some slop in the links could be the cause, or the boom is not stiff enough. I need to get some more head parts and take out the slop there and see what goes from there.
The door that hit the heli has a chunk of wood missing from it at the edge. The painter who stained all the doors told the contractor he needs to get another one as its too damaged to make look good. Works for me as I don't want a patched door anyways.
Thanks Acebird for the kind words!
-=>Raja.
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