ORIGINAL: wolfman01
I have been hovering aroud my driveway!! This bird is WAY different from the one I had back in the early "80s. My tail gyro seems to be working very well. I learned to fly without this, and this is strange! When I go into forward flight at a good speed, does the heli "wheathervane" or do you have to give it tail rotor pitch to get the heli to fly straight? On my old one, you didn't have to touch the tail pitch as long as you were flying ata fair speed.
The tail should hold no matter what...forward flight or just hovering IFyou have a decent gyro and the setup of it was done properly. This is what HH(Head Holding) mode does for us these days.
Ive never flown in Rate mode...but assume that you would have to give some rudder correction at times with your gyro set to "rate"mode.