Need more room!

[Alibi10 Jerry]

It's been windy here in South Florida, so I had to take the car,
motorcycles and bicycles out of my 2 car garage.

I can slide the CP around at 1 foot above the floor, and if it gets too
close to something I just set it down.

It reminds me of an air hockey puck, give it a little tap and away it
goes!
I hope this is ground affect 'cause it's pretty tricky to try to tame
down. <whew>
After one battery I was totally exhausted.

Another day with no damage though!

Question:
My manual is written for experienced pilots and doesn't label the TX.
What does the "TRAINER" switch do?
...and it says zero about maintenance, do you lubricate the main gear
and tail rotor gear?
...with the size of my main gear, that little motor must hit some
serious rpm!
....jerry

[The OTHER Kevin in San Diego]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:04:59 -0500, alibi10@webtv.net (Alibi10 Jerry)
wrote:

>
>It's been windy here in South Florida, so I had to take the car,
>motorcycles and bicycles out of my 2 car garage.
>
>I can slide the CP around at 1 foot above the floor, and if it gets too
>close to something I just set it down.
>
>It reminds me of an air hockey puck, give it a little tap and away it
>goes!
>I hope this is ground affect 'cause it's pretty tricky to try to tame
>down. <whew>

Get it up to about 3' and you'll be out of ground effect and it'll be
a little easier to control. Remember to input the corrective stick
movement and then JUST as the heli starts to correct, remove that
corrective input or it'll just go the other way and you'll end up
getting behind the helicopter.

Also remember you're moving a lot of air in an enclosed space.
Eventually it'll get squirrely because of the turbulence you're
creating. Opening the garage door might help some of that turbulent
air "spill" out - but then you may have wind stirring it up even more.

>After one battery I was totally exhausted.

Try another one then!

>Another day with no damage though!
>
>Question:
>My manual is written for experienced pilots and doesn't label the TX.
>What does the "TRAINER" switch do?

The trainer switch is used to take control of another transmitter via
a cable interface between two of them. Say I was teaching you to fly
and we're "buddy boxing" (That's what we call it when we've each got a
Tx and we're tied together with the cable) You start to lose control
so I'd flip the trainer switch and take control via my transmitter.
Once it was stable, I'll release the trainer switch and you'd have
control.

>..and it says zero about maintenance, do you lubricate the main gear
>and tail rotor gear?

I use silicone spray lube or Tri-Flo oil and lube all the moving parts
except the servos (they're internally lubed) and then wipe off any
excess.

>..with the size of my main gear, that little motor must hit some
>serious rpm!

My brushless goes 3600 RPM per volt and I use 11.1v LiPos. That's
almot 40,000 RPM at 100% efficiency. It actual practice it's more
like 34,000 RPM unloaded. I think the main gear is 140 teeth and I
run an 8 tooth pinion which nets me a headspeed of about 2100 RPM.

[Alibi10 Jerry]

Take it up to 3 feet in my tiny garage, I just bought it Tuesday.
As George Bush Sr. would say.....

Thought about it!

Maybe could have done it!

Not gunna do it! ....LOL

...maybe next week, I'm still waxing and detailing it! <sigh>
jerry

[Scott Hildenbrand]

Alibi10 Jerry wrote:
> Take it up to 3 feet in my tiny garage, I just bought it Tuesday.
> As George Bush Sr. would say.....
>
> Thought about it!
>
> Maybe could have done it!
>
> Not gunna do it! ....LOL
>
> ..maybe next week, I'm still waxing and detailing it! <sigh>
> jerry
>

He's right. Up 2 to 3' will get rid of any ground effect.. Give it a
week or so though till you get used to keeping it from drifting
side/side and get that tail to stick.

On a side note. Somewhere or another I heard about a guys site, Radd
school of something heli. I glanced at it and it looks like good info.
You might want to track it down as it seems his step by step runs
through all you'll ever need.

[Alibi10 Jerry]

Yep, Raad's School of Rotory Flight. I did all the lessons.
jerry