how do I use a pitch gauge
03-05-2006, 12:58 PM
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how do I use a pitch gauge
I got a pitch gauge today but it has no instructions and I couldn't find any here, could someone tell me how to use this thing? I see how it hooks onto the blades but after that I'm lost. Thanks
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RE: how do I use a pitch gauge
Hi
Here is a video I came across wile surfing on the net.
[link=http://www.helifever.com/videos/setup/pitch-gauge/how-pitch-gauge-works/]How Your Pitch Gauge Works[/link]
Here is a video I came across wile surfing on the net.
[link=http://www.helifever.com/videos/setup/pitch-gauge/how-pitch-gauge-works/]How Your Pitch Gauge Works[/link]
03-06-2006, 08:00 PM
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RE: how do I use a pitch gauge
Is it just me or is that guy nuts in that video? I've been setting up my helis for years with a pitch gauge and I have never moved the flybar to line up with the pitch gauge, I've moved the pitch gauge to line up with the flybar. I always make sure my flybar is perfectly level. How can you get the right reading when your moving the flybar around?
I don't use the same kind of pitch gauge as him but I'm sure they all work the same (your flybar should be level) and I'm pretty sure I have been doing it right over the years because my helis fly like a dream.
I don't use the same kind of pitch gauge as him but I'm sure they all work the same (your flybar should be level) and I'm pretty sure I have been doing it right over the years because my helis fly like a dream.
03-06-2006, 10:13 PM
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RE: how do I use a pitch gauge
Charlie: ... I always make sure my flybar is perfectly level. How can you get the right reading when your moving the flybar around?
On the other hand, the pitch on a model that does NOT have a 1:1 ratio has to be read when the angles (flybar and pitch) are equal. The only place that happens is when the flybar is perfectly level (perpendicular to the main rotor shaft).
So ... you are right ... if your heli flybar to main blade pitch change is NOT 1:1 then you do have to make sure the flybar is level. On the Raptor (1:1), although it's adviseable to read it with the flybar square, it's not absolutely necessary. That's how the "commentator" was reading the pitch with a tilted flybar ... because it was a Raptor (1:1).
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03-09-2006, 10:16 PM
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RE: how do I use a pitch gauge
Anybody watch the crash video on that site AJ Dragon posted above? Wild! Gotta feel the pilot's pain there... looks like the tail rotor caught the ground to me.?.?
