Ok Dickeybird, now I see the reason for dual rotors, but again... I want to make a real autogiro!
I've seen many models named "autogiros" just because they have something spinning over a fixed wing (which provides all the lift), while others use a fixed rotor as a wing and use surface control. I agree that many gyrocraft started with this setup, but time and experience proved that they were most effective at high speeds, and thus abandoned soon, using DC instead. I find great to be under control even when you're below stall speed! But I have to agree also with you that they can be more difficult to see. I almost crashed once a brand new model because of this. And I also kept piloting the DC giro like a plane : ailerons work the same, rudder works the same BUT the engine adds both airspeed and altitude, while the pitch only adds more or less lift = more or less speed. Now imagine me pushing the right stick down like crazy to make it climb, till I remembered it had to be the gas stick!
By the way Phil, I don't know what the "FMA Co-Pilot" is and why "anybody can fly it". Is it one of those stabilizer sysems that keep your plane leveled within certain limits?
Hey, another good plane to work with has come to my mind, the TT MK II!
One more thing.... I planned to make the girocraft with some good theorical base apart from that knowledge experience brings. Do you know of any source over the internet where I can buy books about autogiros? I asked the only aircraft book shop here in Spain and I was lucky enough to find a small book about construction and flying