Seems to me I must be doing something wrong, maybe someone here can set me straight.
Admitedly, I'm new to RC helis, though I've spent a lot of time in an EH-101 simulator flying it around so I thought I had some hope of controlling the BCP.
I got my Blade CP a week ago and have been spending the days so far scraping it along the floor of my garage with the training gear on trying to get a feel for manoeuvring it mostly through the pitch and roll.
Sounds like it should be a cynch to fly, at least to hover, but I can't help getting into a spiral of death of sorts. Yaw mixing is right on, since I don't have a yaw problem with changes in collective but I always find the beast starting off slipping to the right then somehow I get stuck (barely) flying it around in larger and larger circles while the nose stays pointed in one direction until I get going so far I have to cut the collective and sit it out.
Am I expecting too much stability from this machine? When I bought it the guy at the shop checked and tuned the proportional control then test hovered it within about the space a card table takes up.
I dumped it a couple of times on my lawn from about 1 foot up when I started but I can't detect any deformed or broken parts except for some of the paint flaked off the blade tips. The only oddity I've noticed is that the 4-in-1 is installed so far forward in the BCP that there's a gap between the aft end of it and the BCP frame (even though there's some 2-sided tape on there as if someone meant for it to be stuck on).
As I understand it the 4-in-1 only does yaw stabilisation, so should the BCP be fairly stable in a hover(for a helicopter) and it's just ground effects that are biting me in my practice sessions?