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Now I know that some of you are very stuffy about Chinese products especially if they are inexpensive , but thought I should bring this to your attention.
I was needing a gyro for my latest 2 planes and after studying the literature I decided what I needed was a 3 axis gyro that had variable gain from the Tx and also if possible a switch to turn it off. I have planes with 2 ailerons and 2 elevator servos so this was also required.
I looked at the Very expensive Cortex gyro at £235 and the i gyro. Both are well known and well respected but seemed over the top for my small planes.
I then spotted the Hobby Eagle gyros and after seeing that they had the right spec and had a small controller to easily adjust the settings at the field I ordered 2 of them. The price was £35 for the standard package of gyro, leads, usb adapter and the display box. The web site for Hobby Eagle (
HOBBYEAGLE - ?????????????) has the manual available for downloading. It is well written in good english and easy to follow.
The gyros arrived promptly this week and I immediately installed them in 2 planes and took them to the flying field today. We checked the gyros were in the correct direction and set up one 3 position switch with 3 modes, off, ailerons only and 3 axis. The first takeoff of the Sting was with the gyro switched off and we switched on and set the gain to about 1/4. (In the software I set the gyros to 80%).
Immediately the plane was noticeably better both with just ailerons and with 3 axis. The gyro does all sorts of fancy stuff like 3d and auto levelling, but I had no need for them.
Dave Wilde then flew the Huckebein I have recently acquired and the results were even more impressive. I cannot see that anyone else has tried this gyro on jets and wondered why. The gyro comes with a capacitor to hopefully avoid any brown outs and I fitted them to both units.
Here is video of the Sting flying in 10 mph cross wind.
This gyro just couldn’t be as good as one costing 7 times as much…could it? Any one else tried them?
John