wobble and gyrations

[chubz]

hi. i just went for my very first "Flight" today with my brand new esky honeybee (FP) and i found out that flight sims give you no prep for taking off in a FP heli.

in the flight sims u go to take off and then the heli lifts smoothly off of the ground and hovers for a few secconds before wandering.

my heli on the other hand, spins up and starts to rotate. i give it a little left stick to stop the rotating. then it spins up a little more and starts to do a little dance. it bounces a little and sort of wobbles kinda quickly from one skid to the other and back. and if i stop it from sliding accross the floor and give it more throttle it finaly lifts off.

but my heli isnt nice and loyal like the flight sim helis. nooo it wants to do its own thing. so i adjust the trims to compensate and it still likes to do its own thing anyway, i move on to controling it, accepting the fact that my heli will never be as good and loyal as the flight sim heli.

allthough once its in the air it no longer wants to dance, it floats around nice and smooth.

and after about 40 mins of my noob flying i come inside and wipe the sweat off and chuck my heli over my bat cooling fan.

flight one complete :P

[WykeWing]

Originally Posted by chubz

hi. i just went for my very first "Flight" today with my brand new esky honeybee (FP) and i found out that flight sims give you no prep for taking off in a FP heli.

Well done with your flight and I tend to agree with you re the HoneyBee. My first flight I was having to pump in a lot of rudder to keep the tail from wandering during "power up". Then just as you reached "skids light" I needed to stuff in some right cyclic, as the bird wanted to move left. After a couple of batteries of trying to tame this beast whilst skidding around the ground I got the sim G3 and was surprised at how easy all the sim helis were. I put it down to them having CP (if you try and fly the Buzz electric in G3 it tends to be a handful on take off as well, though not to the degree I found the HoneyBee to be).

So now I think I want a TRex, but having found a model of it for G3, I'm not so sure. That thing is way pich sensititve, though I've read on a TRex website that sticking a couple of weights on the fly bars improves this for newbies like me. Decisions decisions.

[Aztek1701]

Its not just the small electrics that want to dance around (Ive got a T-Rex and a Sceadu that like to do it too). In my limited experience there is a sort of right speed to lift off between too slow and bouncing around on the ground and too fast and not being able to control it. Its especially bad on the first few flights because you have this overwhelming desire to keep it low. The only advice I could give you is dont leave it light on the skids for too long or the slightest current of air wants to affect it and move it but the skids are still technically on the ground hence the bouncing. Just be ready and compensate for what it does as it gets lighter its normal and the sims dont show it very well. The smoother the floor the better.

Keep trying, it'll become second nature before too long...

Good Luck.. Azzy