HOT DAM THESE HELI'S ARE FUN!!!!!
I made my first hover's, landing and first FF today! I'll will say I cheated a bit with a Co-pilot but read on. my first hover was nerve racking... I set up the Co-pilot by the book and used auto trim/100% gain BAD IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the Co-pilot was actually hurting me ,it was trimming to the right and up... I had to hold a good bit of left/down to keep hover and work the stick's in general to keep it stable...I ran out of trim trying to correct it! the good thing is I made at least 15 take-off's and landings in my first 1/2 tank trying to get the dam thing trimmed
then I re-calibrated it still using auto trim... mistake #2!!! same thing it just won't trim the heli right or allow me to trim it right, another 12 or so take-off/landing's later my tank was almost empty...BREAK time! after thinking about it and looking everything over for the 100th time I reset my trims to 0, went with auto trim OFF, calibrated, set the gain at about 50%, fueled and all be damed that Co-pilot does help!!!! after a brief trim of a few clicks I had it hands off for a 3 or 4 count before it drifted a bit, the Co-pilot seemed to auto correct as well... I gave it some right roll let go and it went back to hover HOWEVER the Co-pilot will not keep hover with out my inputs, it may not crash but I'd have to walk with/chase the heli after 4 or 5 seconds
Anyway I hovered abit more landed a bit more... low tank MORE FUEL!! THEN I flew a short SLOW circuit... scared the hell out me!!! shaking like a leaf I brought it back around set it down and called it a day
so far so good... If I can I'll be back out in the morning to fly it some more
after today I'm glad I had G-2... the Co-pilot would have screwed me if I didn't have sim time.
John