cruise control
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Hello all, just wandering if it is possible to to fly a model by controlling the air speed as opposed to controlling the turbine speed.
Merry Christmas to all and may your wishes be fulfilled.
Ivan
Merry Christmas to all and may your wishes be fulfilled.
Ivan
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Yup with Jeti radios we do it all the time. Simple use MSpeed sensor, dial your speed at the transmitter and create logical condition.
We have guys control all kind of functions, you wish for automatic slots or flaps simply done.
Zb/Jeti USA
We have guys control all kind of functions, you wish for automatic slots or flaps simply done.
Zb/Jeti USA
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Thanks for the reply,
would this be achievable with JR 10X radio and the MSpeed sensor? Here in Australia I have not seen a Yeti radio, looks niece and it looks a lot easier to keep clean than my JR.
would this be achievable with JR 10X radio and the MSpeed sensor? Here in Australia I have not seen a Yeti radio, looks niece and it looks a lot easier to keep clean than my JR.
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JetCat turbines can use a speed sensor that is integrated into the ECU. It takes the state of the turbine into account within its control law so it can provide optimized control of airpseed. It not only allows for a "cruise control" speed hold mode but also allows the throttle stick to be used as a "speed stick", directly controlling the airspeed
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I have done this with a p200 and using the aux channel to engage "cruise control mode" effectively turns the left stick from "thrust" control to "speed' control ... the JetCat ECUs allow you to set a low and high speed value, and then proportionally the stick sets the speed in between. Its pretty awesome for scale routines ... I wish other bran ECUs also had this option. With all the turbines these days being reliable and many choices better than JetCat in some size categories( to me at least) this is the one feature which would still make me get a JetCat for some applications
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Ultimate Jets Sells an "ASSI" device that is exactly what you are looking for. It uses a Pitot tube to set up an auto-throttle. It is made by Corsten Groen in Europe and they work great. I have two of them.
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What would be sweet is if the 'autothrottle' could be programmed to fly a steady approach speed for landing, but allow the throttle to be pulled to idle in the flare. I know, I know, you'd still need to be proficient in managing speed and glidepath in case the gizmo starts acting up, but, boy, it sure would be nice to normally just focus on glideslope and let the speed take care of itself.
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Sluggo, the ASSI is very well thought out for auto-throttle. You have five different airspeeds you can set up depending on flap position, I only use 3. You flip a switch(3-way) that arms it. Then you drop your throttle to zero and that engages it. If you come up with the throttle at all it disengages it and you are back to manual.
It's nerve-wracking at first doing an approach with your throttle stick all the way down but I find it corrects airspeed and sink rate as fast, if not faster than I could do it myself. It also has output for bright LED's that I have mounted like AOA lights on the front strut. Solid green .. to fast .. flashing green - perfect .. flashing red - a little slow .. solid red - go around!
I find when using it, that I land so much slower than I usually do. I have it programmed for 1.3x stall speed. I think all of our natural tendencies are to land a little hot. So it really gets your attention when you look that slow but it really shortens the roll out.
I had one landing where I carried all the way down to a full landing and then never gave it a throttle bump (to disengage). During roll out it throttled up to maintain approach speed and I wound up making an unintended but uneventful touch and go. I just hit the coals once I realized what it was doing.
I did set up the Angle of Attack function as I know that's how most fighter jets do their approaches. But I just set all the warnings and lights based on airspeed alone (it can use either). IMHO a simple pitot tube for airspeed alone would get 90% the job done with this device. Then you don't need to mess with making an AOA sensor. An AOA sensor is less complicated than you think. It is basically two tubes in the air stream, One 45 degrees up and one 45 degrees down. But a pitot tube is VERY, VERY simple. Just a tube stuck into the uninterrupted air stream and possibly a static port 90 degrees to the air stream. And there are a lot of ready made pitot tubes out there (Eagle-Tree, etc...).
Happy Flying,
Steve
It's nerve-wracking at first doing an approach with your throttle stick all the way down but I find it corrects airspeed and sink rate as fast, if not faster than I could do it myself. It also has output for bright LED's that I have mounted like AOA lights on the front strut. Solid green .. to fast .. flashing green - perfect .. flashing red - a little slow .. solid red - go around!
I find when using it, that I land so much slower than I usually do. I have it programmed for 1.3x stall speed. I think all of our natural tendencies are to land a little hot. So it really gets your attention when you look that slow but it really shortens the roll out.
I had one landing where I carried all the way down to a full landing and then never gave it a throttle bump (to disengage). During roll out it throttled up to maintain approach speed and I wound up making an unintended but uneventful touch and go. I just hit the coals once I realized what it was doing.
I did set up the Angle of Attack function as I know that's how most fighter jets do their approaches. But I just set all the warnings and lights based on airspeed alone (it can use either). IMHO a simple pitot tube for airspeed alone would get 90% the job done with this device. Then you don't need to mess with making an AOA sensor. An AOA sensor is less complicated than you think. It is basically two tubes in the air stream, One 45 degrees up and one 45 degrees down. But a pitot tube is VERY, VERY simple. Just a tube stuck into the uninterrupted air stream and possibly a static port 90 degrees to the air stream. And there are a lot of ready made pitot tubes out there (Eagle-Tree, etc...).
Happy Flying,
Steve
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Ultimate Jets Sells an "ASSI" device that is exactly what you are looking for. It uses a Pitot tube to set up an auto-throttle. It is made by Corsten Groen in Europe and they work great. I have two of them.
My electronics knowledge is fairly limited, so if I understand it correctly I would need an ASSI gadget and a more modern radio to control air speed instead of engine throttle.
Ivan
My electronics knowledge is fairly limited, so if I understand it correctly I would need an ASSI gadget and a more modern radio to control air speed instead of engine throttle.
Ivan
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Ultimate Jets Sells an "ASSI" device that is exactly what you are looking for. It uses a Pitot tube to set up an auto-throttle. It is made by Corsten Groen in Europe and they work great. I have two of them.
My electronics knowledge is fairly limited, so if I understand it correctly I would need an ASSI gadget and a more modern radio to control air speed instead of engine throttle.
Ivan
My electronics knowledge is fairly limited, so if I understand it correctly I would need an ASSI gadget and a more modern radio to control air speed instead of engine throttle.
Ivan
You would like to designate a 3 position switch to engage and dis-engage. Position one .. Disengaged Throttle control as usual. Mid position .. Throttle control as usual but the output for the Red and Green indicator lights (Airspeed Lights) are active. Position 3 .. Device is armed and will become active once the Throttle is dropped to 0. It will stay engaged until the throttle is raised above 0 or the 3 position switch is flipped from position 3.
Airspeed set points can be programmed to up to 5 different flap positions or can be assigned to a knob or slider.
I would recommend setting up the bright LED's first and practicing a few approaches using those to guide your approach. Then try engaging the auto throttle at altitude and fly around to get the hang of engaging and dis-engaging. It's pretty easy. Just be conscious that if you advance the throttle you will disengage auto-throttle and go to manual throttle immediately.
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