Desertlakesflying

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That's easy to say with planes that are inherently stable in their full scale versions. Try that with something like that with scale version of modern jets. That's a pretty short sighted comment.

BarracudaHockey

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My favorite ever gyro story. Nall main flight line, saturday morning, it was windy as hell and only one guy was flying. It happened to be Danny from Demon Aero (distributors of the Cortex gyro) and he was flying a 3DHS Skywolf, just doing lazy touch and go landings, some mild aerobatics.

Guy comes up from behind and says "Does that thing have a gyro?" Danny says "Yes, a Demon Cortex" The guy says "well that's cheating!" Danny replies "Why aren't you flying?" The fellow says "it's too windy"

otrcman

"Why aren't you flying?" The fellow says "it's too windy"


I love it ! Just love it !

FlyerInOKC

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That is great!

BarracudaHockey

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True story.

Like I said before, just another tool at your disposal to increase your enjoyment.

I thought of this today and I need to find a way to work it into an article.

A gyro will increase your flying to honey-do list ratio

David Bathe

Indeed. And these new setup are so much more than a gyro. It's stability, It's turbulance cancellation, It's auto mixing... and I whole new way of interfacing with your model.
No touching the tranny, small buttons and a small window, this and that. Just a direct interface with the receiver via the iPhone. Page after page, swipe after swipe of pure logic.
See a couple of screen shots... It's beautiful to use, even for my old eyes and brain.

FlyerInOKC

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I don't think I want to go that far, it was simplicity that killed the quad market.

countilaw

I am assembling a Top Flite AT-6 Texan for Fun Scale. I am using it as a basis for my completed model. I want to use a gyro due to the narrow gear configuration. With the gear close set, it can make for some scary cross wind take offs and landings. I just haven't decided which I want to use yet. I am leaning toward the FrSky S6D receiver that has the gyro built in.

Frank

David Bathe

The quad market has absolutely exploded. Or am I living in a parallel universe.

FlyerInOKC

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A number of the big mail order dealers who got big into quads as well as some of the manufacturers have already closed their doors saying it was due to a sharp downturn in demand. The industry as a whole is looking a lot like a starved horse. Even Hobbico and Horizon are hurting. Super Tigre has decided to permanently shutter production and the line is up for sale. As far as I know the on hobby company posting a gain is Brodak/Dare.

For the record I purchased the Hitec HG3XA to try in my VK Models Fokker DR-1 that I am building. It fits the requirements I wanted at a very reasonable price. There is an ongoing thread on another board about it.

HG3XA 3-Axis Stabilization Gyro System | HITEC RCD USA

mgnostic

I think that we will see that the whole quad rotor "drone" thing will turn out to be another expensive fad for most people. There was a lot of initial enthusiasm and a lot of product was rushed to market. There have been a lot of really neat ideas developed and I hope that the technology isn't lost to the market. Just like with go-carts, mini bikes and frisbee golf there will remain a core group of enthusiasts who continue to enjoy the activity but I agree that the market has been flooded. Incidentally I think that all of the regulation directed at "drones" will turn out to have been a colossal waste. Veering back toward the main topic I got to watch an Eflight Ultimate Biplane being maidened yesterday. It had some sort of stability assist that the owner used to help out with the first flight. There was discussion among the pilots about using stability assist with some of the hand launched flying wings that are popular in the area.

FlyerInOKC

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I think a gyro servers a purpose the trick is to NOT get totally dependent on it.

buzzard bait

Yeah, that sounds right, I feel the same way about driving with GPS.

Jim

FlyerInOKC

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My son gave me heck once when we were visiting him at FT. Carson, CO because we took off without getting his GPS. I told him I have my own GPS it's called a "MAP".

beepee

On the gyro subject: has anyone tried the Orange RX3S 3-Axis flight stabilizer? I had an old piazo gyro in yaw (rudder) on a short coupled bi-plane. It worked great, but after spending some (long) time in storage it became 90% ineffective. I have been looking at the current offerings and this Orange product ticks some important boxes for me. It is switchable, has separate gain and reverse controls on the three axes.

Thanks,

Bedford

FlyerInOKC

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Check this out":

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...ght-Stabilizer

beepee

Very helpful. Thanks Flyer.

Bedford

FlyerInOKC

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Glad to help not everyone can find everything and not everything is all one board. Finding the information is half the battle.