CSM 400 gyro opinions?

[Eddie Lawson]

Just wondering if there are any problems with these gyros?
I'm currently using a mechanical gyro and am looking to upgrade. My flying
skills are to the stage of general flying around but not quite to the stage
of 3D.
Any opinions on these gyros?
Thanks
Eddie

[Martin Round]

They seem good to me. Just the same as a CSM540 except that you can't use
the PC Interface to reprogram them (and most people never do that anyway).
I have three CSM gyros in different machines - the 360, 540 and 400. Apart
from a slight early problem with the 360 (they swapped it for a new one free
of charge), I've been pleased with all three. I also have some other
gyros, including a much more expensive JR unit, but for all normal flying,
including 3D, the CSM is just as good.

Bob Johnson uses them, though not exclusively. When you watch the sort of
stuff he does, it leaves you with no doubts about the capability of the
gyro.

Martin.

"Eddie Lawson" <Ih8spam@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Just wondering if there are any problems with these gyros?
> I'm currently using a mechanical gyro and am looking to upgrade. My flying
> skills are to the stage of general flying around but not quite to the
stage
> of 3D.
> Any opinions on these gyros?
> Thanks
> Eddie
>
>
>

[Anne-Marie Maddison]

go for the csm 420 if you are buying one , it has a new type sensor /new
functions and is excellent.
cheerrs
ben
"Martin Round" <nospam@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> They seem good to me. Just the same as a CSM540 except that you can't use
> the PC Interface to reprogram them (and most people never do that anyway).
> I have three CSM gyros in different machines - the 360, 540 and 400.
Apart
> from a slight early problem with the 360 (they swapped it for a new one
free
> of charge), I've been pleased with all three. I also have some other
> gyros, including a much more expensive JR unit, but for all normal flying,
> including 3D, the CSM is just as good.
>
> Bob Johnson uses them, though not exclusively. When you watch the sort of
> stuff he does, it leaves you with no doubts about the capability of the
> gyro.
>
> Martin.
>
> "Eddie Lawson" <Ih8spam@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> news:jPdMa.142$35.8343@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> > Just wondering if there are any problems with these gyros?
> > I'm currently using a mechanical gyro and am looking to upgrade. My
flying
> > skills are to the stage of general flying around but not quite to the
> stage
> > of 3D.
> > Any opinions on these gyros?
> > Thanks
> > Eddie
> >
> >
> >
>
>

[Beav]

"Eddie Lawson" <Ih8spam@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Just wondering if there are any problems with these gyros?
> I'm currently using a mechanical gyro and am looking to upgrade. My flying
> skills are to the stage of general flying around but not quite to the
stage
> of 3D.
> Any opinions on these gyros?

No doubt you'll get MANY opinions, and all of them different, but seeing as
how CSM were the inventors of the HH gyro and the 400 is a relatively new
addition to their range, would it be crap? No. I use 360's, 540's and a new
SL 560 and so far, I've yet to find a gyro that I feel more comfortable with
than a CSM.

Everyone I fly with uses either the 400 or the 540 (apart from one guy) and
only one of them has ANY idea how to make any changes to "improve things" so
they don't, they simply fit the gyro, get me to set 'em up and then they
just fly. Not one of them has ever reported back that they're having any
kind of problem either, and all subsequent gyro purchases have also been
CSM's.

Like their ad says "CSM know a good trend when they start one"


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[Beav]

"Anne-Marie Maddison" <Annemarie.Maddison@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> go for the csm 420 if you are buying one , it has a new type sensor /new
> functions and is excellent.

That's an excellent idea. I'd forgotten about that one :-)


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[Eddie Lawson]

Thanks guys, theres one on Ebay I was watching, I think I"ll put a bid on
it.
cheers
Eddie


"Eddie Lawson" <Ih8spam@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:jPdMa.142$35.8343@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> Just wondering if there are any problems with these gyros?
> I'm currently using a mechanical gyro and am looking to upgrade. My flying
> skills are to the stage of general flying around but not quite to the
stage
> of 3D.
> Any opinions on these gyros?
> Thanks
> Eddie
>
>
>