TX Stick length adjustment ?
02-24-2011 | 07:37 AM
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TX Stick length adjustment ?
It seams that after I ajusted my TX sticks out almost all the way . I have more control. Is this true or just my imagination ?
02-24-2011 | 08:21 AM
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RE: TX Stick length adjustment ?
Making your sticks longer is like lowering your rates. So up to the point where they become uncomfortable they will give you finer control.
02-24-2011 | 09:52 AM
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RE: TX Stick length adjustment ?
imagine laying your transmitter back side on the ground, and having two 3 foot sticks 
i like mine a few rotations from being all the way down, since im a thumber... the pinchers like their sticks longer
i like mine a few rotations from being all the way down, since im a thumber... the pinchers like their sticks longer
02-24-2011 | 10:14 AM
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RE: TX Stick length adjustment ?
Precisely it is exactly like reducing the throws and since many folks especially when new tend use excessive throws longer sticks will have a smoothing effect.
You can see the same thing in full scale craft where early aircraft tended to have rather long sticks but in some modern aircraft both homebuilts and some military with the shortest possible sticks controlled just by wrist action.
If you look at most early helicopters such as the bell 47's and Hiller's Which had incredatably long production lives the earliest had the longest sticks possible with overhead cyclics and later versions had progressively shorter conventional sticks.
If you look at the US military training gliders of WW11 such as the Sweitzer TG-3's, the Pratt Reeds and LK's among others the sticks were very long almost up in front of your face. They were intended to be used with two hands with grips about twelve inchs long you could slide your hands up or down to acheve the 'feel' that suited you.
Of course there are other mechanical factors in the linkage geometry mix but stick length is very much a factor.
Sorry for a bit of wandering [X(]
John
You can see the same thing in full scale craft where early aircraft tended to have rather long sticks but in some modern aircraft both homebuilts and some military with the shortest possible sticks controlled just by wrist action.
If you look at most early helicopters such as the bell 47's and Hiller's Which had incredatably long production lives the earliest had the longest sticks possible with overhead cyclics and later versions had progressively shorter conventional sticks.
If you look at the US military training gliders of WW11 such as the Sweitzer TG-3's, the Pratt Reeds and LK's among others the sticks were very long almost up in front of your face. They were intended to be used with two hands with grips about twelve inchs long you could slide your hands up or down to acheve the 'feel' that suited you.
Of course there are other mechanical factors in the linkage geometry mix but stick length is very much a factor.
Sorry for a bit of wandering [X(]
John
02-24-2011 | 10:32 AM
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RE: TX Stick length adjustment ?
You just adjust your sticks to the length they feel good to you. I'm a pinch pilot so I like mine a bit longer, thumbers like them a bit shorter. During a lot of stunts I have taught myself to let go of the pinch or my planes will drift on me, I tend to add aileron in things like loops if I try to hold the pinch so I have to do it with only one finger. Over time you get to know what you like. I just don't over think it and just fly the plane. It is what it is and does what it does.
