Moving it round, week 4
One of the first things I noticed about helicopters was how stable they are in Yaw, what I did not know is the fly bar stabilises the heli in roll and pitch resisting any changes. The complexity of the paddles, weights and mixing is far too complicated for me. If I nudge my little E-flight mCX in flight I can see the fly bar move and the little heli stabilises itself. If you want to know how it works type "Bell-Hiller System" into google
I had a couple flights outside, this did not go well, I was very careful flying indoors, not going above shoulder height and keeping it close. Outside I relaxed a little and before I could get my act together it was 15 feet high a long was down wind and nose in. Panic and desperation took over and I stuck the nose down and reverted to fixed wing mode flying back to me rather fast. Unfortunately I swung the tail round too fast and cut the throttle too much resulting in a blade strike in spite of the training frame, I got away with this time.
During the next flights I took more care but struggled with the wind having a lot of problems with height control
I claimed last week that I had mastered the hover, I was wrong, I need more practice but it is improving, I have started moving it around a little doing a few lazy S'es and a bit of sideways hovering
Phil
Photo of my shogun from Jim's mobile phone
Indoor flying
Every Saturday at Bentham Hall 6.00PM till
8.00PM, bar open after.
This venue is open to all with BMFA insurance, spectators welcome, criticism
in the manor of Statler
and Waldorf especially welcome
Photos from the 18th session at glos-mfc.co.uk
A good turnout 26 in all with three doing free flight, A large
Helicopter turnout 25 models
a bit of heli flying in the bar later
Photo is Meredith's CO2 model, Is it CO2 that causes Global warming? perhaps we need more of these models. short videos http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/videofree.wmv and http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/video/free2.wmv
