ORIGINAL: alienteabagger
ORIGINAL: s_mcflurry
Ah, okay. Thanks for the reply. I kinda had a feeling that this was it but I only heard of one other person mentioning so I discounted it. If I were to raise the tail rotor to the level of the rotor disk (hypothetically) the way it is on, say, an Apache or a Cobra, would this correct my Axe's lean?
Unfortunately nope.
The axis of the two rotating 'discs' and the forces they enact on the heli would still create the lean. If you went and reversed the direction of the blades, guess what would happen? It'd just lean the other way. Only dual rotor (Chinooks, AxeEZ, CoCo Lamas, etc) helis do not exhibit the gangsta-leaniness. My Trex leans so I just tilt my head a bit when it gets annoying to look at the heli leaning.
haha... "gangsta-leaniness". Not only is it annoying, it's misleading. I'm practicing nose-in right now and that lean is really obvious and sometimes I forget and I anticipate that drift and correct for it. I know people say look at the disk but I can't get myself to do that - the blades are white and reflect light so it's hard to tell what it's doing. Anyway, thanks again for the reply - I'll just live with it.