Here's my flight from yesterday ! (A cut and paste here).....
I finally got a quick chance yesterday at 1:00 p.m. to try out the Trex 450 using a 12t Rhino pinion I installed a few weeks ago... I thought it was killer in my yard with that -6 4400kv Scorpion motor, but found out otherwise at the field today during the test flight. Yeah the thing hauls *****, since by the Darkhorse Calculator the headspeed is around 3,992 rpm's, but I noticed a significant decrease in Torque by far. I really like the 11t I did have on like you saw in my last flight with the Floyd song about a month ago. The 11t with a 3500 headspeed was perfect so far in testing... I don't have a 10t pinion, or I would try that one also... In time....
Well if there was one word to describe this Trex 450 video, it would be "jittery"...... Not consistent at all... Definately some sim time needed here soon. But it got a little better, toward the end but not really. I was also wrong about the flight time and getting 7 minutes.... NOPE... I forgot, I start recording when I'am at the truck so that I can see and set the hatcam to make sure its on straight looking at my reflection on the truck window. Then I walk to the far corner to keep the morning or afternoon sun to my back...
I kept getting distracted by two little future pilots that I spotted across the way before I even spooled the 450 up. They were gradually worming there way closer, and I had to stay alert, especially with my wild tendencies.... (LMAO)...
When I first popped the 450 up, I right away noticed my tracking was off considerably... Darn it I thought... It was fine before, but I forgot I was punching it out a couple weeks ago in my yard to test that 12t pinion, and remember my old neighbor distracting me, and so I landed... I must have blown out the tired CPP o-ring's I'am using punching out like that, and didn't notice because I had landed quickly to talk to the neighbor and the 450 sat since until this flight...
So the first minute I'am in Normal mode swaying back and forth debating if I should run back home and fix the tracking and then come back, while at the same time watching the two boys sitting down across the way at the fitness center/pool...
Hek with it, I looked down at my DX7 because all of a sudden I forgot where the dang idle up switch is at, because I've been involved with my CPP and the stock TX which I use for that heli, has the idle up on the opposite side than my DX7's, and as you may remember, I've already accidently hit throttle hold twice thinking it was idle up awhile ago on the T-450, and Logo...
Now I can easily see how Randy got used to his cyclic commands upright, but then brainfarted a few times while inverted like he told us about awhile ago. Funny how are brains work ! Either way, its not good to mix 2 different TX's... At least for me...
I think I finally know how to program EXPO into my DX7, because I had to learn how for this Mini-Funtana plane.... So with this touchy 450 which has the 4 gram CPP paddles, the higher headspeed, and the 88% swash mix, with also using my DX7's sticks screwed all the way down to make them short and sensitive, I'am going to "ADD" some EXPO to smooth it out around center, as I've read many times before but just never understood where, or how to program that... You gotta understand the TX is my main weak point with this RC stuff... Don't know why...
How much expo would you guys recommend who've done it, and experienced it, so that I don't go to much, but yet enough so that I can feel or tell the diff... ? Ivan, Randy ? I don't want to much, because I've never used it and learned without it, but I need to sprinkle just a smidgen of love to help see if It smooths things out just a bit for me...
Here our 2 future RC-Heli pilots below.....!
Here's my shameful video from yesterday..... A couple of more flights, and I should be back in the groove to being at least a little more smooth with the flying. I think I got distracted, so I forgot to set my timer on the DX7... Great, now its a guessing game... Luckily I guessed right-on, because my LVC kicked in exactly 8 seconds before it set foot on the ground... Yikes ! 2009 mah put back into the 2200 mah 35c lipo... VERY short runtimes and a decrease in torque... Me no likey........
The video doesn't show the tracking off really, but about the 47 second mark it kinda does... I use the dark contrast of the trees as a backdrop usually to check as you see me kinda do...
http://exposureroom.com/members/J-MI...ba692ced96545/
Cheers,
~ Jeff