Barracuda,
Regarding Ray's DVDs - Thanks - Now I can save the money on spend it on some more useless bling!!!
I went through my entire setup last night. Actual pitch angles were not too far off before I started, but I went back to basics because my endpoints and subtrims were a little off.
Collective
End Points 100 / 107 (Pitch frame is at full stroke at this setting)
Reset the long links on the head to give exactly 0deg at 50% on the curve and the throttle stick centered
Collective range is +- 10.5deg (with Quick UK head block, and washout. Other parts are standard)
Aileron
Servo centered with 0 subtrim & trim centered
End Points 100/100
This gave about 7.5deg aileron cyclic and it was just on the verge of binding.
I backed it off to 6deg using 65% on Dual Rate.
Elevator
Servo centered with 0 subtrim and trim centered
End Points 100/100
This gave about 7deg elevator cyclic with no sign of binding
I set it to 6deg using 78% on Dual Rate
No hint of binding in the corners.
Set my expos to -50% (Futaba) on both AIL and ELE in all modes)
I have set this for all flight modes for now, I will adjust individually at the field. This is all with the swash plate level, I know I will need to trim it out at the filed for translation.
Should be okay?
One question, after having got the pitches perfectly, then when you trim AIL and ELE out for a stable hover, do you prefer to use trim or sub-trim?