Belt CP Pics! Info! Review!

[pitviper51]

heres a nother pic hehehehh had to... that raptor has tons of info, learned alot inthe first 2 minits
mike

[Nitrohuffer]

You have it backwards. Think of it like a fuel tank. if you use 100% of the tanks capacity you are on empty. 85% used will leave 15% left in your tank.

[pitviper51]

ahh that makes a bit more sense.. how would that read on a display,, the charger im getting tells me each cell seperatly,, now i guess id have to figure out what to set my max throttle setting in the curve.... pitch i think ill start with -3, 10, ??????? can ya tell im a noob....

[Nitrohuffer]

Curtousy of the great Mike Prewitt at raptor technique:
0, 5, 9
This is for learning to hover. Zero is used for the bottom in case you do a 'chop stick'. That is when you get in trouble and pull the stick down quick. BTW: Make sure your blades are tight in the grips. If you hit a little hard then the blades could pivot out of position and then reach the tail boom.
-2, 5, 9
After you can hover good enough to keep the helicopter from moving all over the place then guess what you do next... move the helicopter all around the place <grin> hahaha Well in a structured way. You move in triangle, rectangle, and circle patterns to develope you aileron and elevator skills. At the early stage of this you may still want to keep the 0,5,9 settings but as you get more comfortable and start working on the beginnings of the figure 8 pattern it will be better to re-adjust the bottom point to -2.
-4, 4, 9
This is for doing full figure 8's. If you try doing figure 8's with 0 on the bottom you will find as you come back into the wind you will have to lower the collective so much that the throttle cuts out from under you. In other words as you lower the collective to keep the helicopter from climbing, you may have to go so far that the engine goes to an idle. Remember the collective and throttle are on the same stick! Next, start using the flight mode switch. Leave normal mode at -4,4,9.
* All the following pitch curve settings are flight mode 1.
-4, 3, 9
This will mostly be to help you get use to working the switch. Set the flight mode 1 throttle curve so the throttle does not go to idle, like 30,40,50,60,100. This will keep the throttle up when you do quick descent.
-6, 3, 9
After you get comfortable with the -4 on the bottom then re-adjust the bottom for -6. Later you will go to a full 3d curve.
-9, 0, 9
This is the full 3d curve with v-curve throttle, ex 100,60,50,60,100. This is the mode you use to do all the flip flopping in the sky that you want.

[pitviper51]

awsome! thanks,, after work ill try to set up pitch curve,, im guessing the throt curve is the same up tell going to the 3d set up,, what would be the best curve for low rate throttle response,, so it does turn to dragster ,,
mike

[pitviper51]

i got to checking and the theres some wiggles im not sure are good?? for one the main blade holders move a tiny bit up and down, but in gonna tighten the nut under theblade to see if that fixes it, the other movment im getting is from the main shaft moving around inthe base of the frame, the bearing cups are moving it seems, as if there nothing to hold it tight?? hope this is maken sense, opinions would be great, here a pic to help..
mike

[SleepyC]

Stop worrying about it...

FLY it... beat it up.. crash it.. and fix it...

Thats what $200 helis are for.

Oh and crash it..

and Crash it...

and Crash it...

Did I mention crash it....

[pitviper51]

i just watched fly boys, great movie,, tho i can critisize many things over all good movie,, on topic,, i try to be a presision guy went setting my stuff up, im mostly wondering how much tht will effect the flight..
mike

[pitviper51]

oh,, battery hasnt come in yet, all were waiting on is the UPS truck...
mike

[pitviper51]

well iv been messing around tryign to set this beast up, and DANG this stuff is strange,, i have everything pluged in right... roll control is good, collective good, but elevator pitch backward..... just my luck.. i tryed reverse the ch2 and it throws the hole thing off... not to forget my gyro wont incage now,, i had it pluged it once and was working the i had to take it off to set the controls.. now the led just blinks. and the tail wont move... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh waht am i doing wrong>>?
mike

[Nitrohuffer]

Try going into the swash afr menu and changing the elevator # to a negative. That will reverse the elevator mix.

[pitviper51]

i just read that , im gonna give it a try after work,, i got the gyro workign again,, i guess i had the trimm to much, so i just slide teh servo where i needed it,, not it works, but it gets equal throw both ways, iwill need to end point unless i want the thing maken a tornado haha
mike