Kaarlo
Heliman
Location: Helsinki Finland
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Helicommand versus FlightmentorPellicle, excellent post. You could not have put it better! THANKS. Basically both units are three gyros and gyros are certainly common knowledge to-day. We actually put two good heading hold gyros on a heli that needs no mixing because the mixing is done mechanically. It worked rather much like the HC 3 A. Our company has a dozen Helicommands of all types, except the Profi because the Germans were ****** (find the correct word yourself) enough to require our company to sign a license agreement awarding them a huge sum in case the Finnish Armed Forces, who are our sole client (we have been producing drones for them since 1968) would use the Profi for something the German company would not approve of. We are now using a Chinese GPS system instead. And as we belong to the EU just like Germany that makes us sad. We also tested a few units of the Flymentor. Contrary to what someone on this forum wrote after first saying the unit was ok, we have had no problems. But we cannot really make valid claims, 3 units are not enough for that nor the hours logged until now. With a dozen HC and many hours we do know that 8 out of 12 have had to be sent for service, in spite of the fact that they were used only in electric helis. We do want to stress they were all repaired free of charge, some even after the warranty had expired and they do a good job of keeping a heli horizonantal. The Germans have known for years that the tail gyro in the HC is not really what they claim it to be, heading hold, and done nothing about it. The Flymentors tail gyro is not really heading hold either, but it is if anything, a little better than the HC. Horizontal hold is equal. Kaarlo von Freymann
SPACETECHNOLOGY CO. HELSINKI FINLAND |
