Wow this bickering gets old
Anyway, I don't know if I solved the glitching problem or not, but I ended up moving my ESC to where Walkera puts the stock tail rotor servo (my tail rotor servo is now located on the tail boom). It now sits above the battery, about as far from the receiver as I can get it. I went out and flew it just now and had my first "glitch free" flight in quite some time. I'll need a few more flights to be sure but this was the first flight I've had without the slight (but annoying) power fluctuation. It flew great and I was getting some pretty good laps up and down my street.
Man I need a bigger place to fly this thing. I'm getting good enough that I'm doing some decent forward flight, but I've got cars, signs, and houses all around me. I am anxious to take it to a big field and try it out. I'm still not super comfy when the nose faces me, but I'm way better than I used to be. The problem is that the faster I fly it, the bigger crater it's going to leave when I finally do crash and burn[
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