By Nigel on Sunday, 27 June 2010 11:01 AM

Thought I should dust the cobwebs off the mini-titan properly with a couple of flights today.

First flight was just a get the feel for it.  Second flight I did some circuits, with figure 8's and a couple of stall turns.

The tail wasn't too bad.  It held very well, with some wag at times, but was still pretty solid.  A decent tail servo will definately help.

Battery #6 took xx ma to charge in yy minutes for an 8 minute flight

Battery #7 took xx ma to charge in yy minutes...

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By Nigel on Sunday, 27 June 2010 11:01 AM

After a couple of nice flights with the mini-titan it was the Trex's turn hehe

First flight was the usual flying, circuits, figure 8's, stall turns, stall and stall piro turns, piros and forward flight piros.

Second flight I did a few extra things. :)  A couple of barrel rolls and 3 or 4 loops. Near the end of the flight I decided to do some autos.  I started off at a couple of metres, then increasing the height.  Before teh fuel got too low, I guess I had worked up to about 20 metres. ...

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By Nigel on Saturday, 26 June 2010 9:12 AM

It was looking like a nice morning when I left home to head down for a flight and it was still nice when I got to the field but before I even got my first flight in the showers started. We had a few more thought out the morning, but still had nice sunshine between these showers.

I got two enjoyable flights in.  The tail if a lot nicer now with the Tail Lock gain set down to 50.  I was able to increase the tail gain (back up to 34 now) and the tail is holding a lot nicer now.

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By Nigel on Monday, 21 June 2010 4:49 PM

This was a test flight after fitting the spartan gyro to the mini-titan.

This gyro really shows how bad and slow the spektrum servos are.

I got the tail dialled, but when doing piros, the tail has a really bad bounce (1/4 turn) when you stop.

New tail servo is now on the list

Battery #7 took 1536 ma in 66:43minutes to charge for an approximately 8 minute long flight

By Nigel on Saturday, 19 June 2010 9:04 AM

Didn't think it was going to be a nice day for flying as when I was heading in, I passed through a really heavy rain storm, but thankfully it cleared up (just icy cold winds)

I had two good flights.  I had reduced the "Rudder Lock Gain Adjustment" on the 3G control unit as suggested on archeli forums in an attempt to stop the tail wag that I have been unable to get rid of by dropping the gain.

The first flight I was a bit dissappointed as the wag was still there.  About half way through...

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By Nigel on Monday, 14 June 2010 8:36 AM

Boy it was cold.  According to the car, it was only 5 degrees.

I only managed one flight as I had to go help a friend.  I was hoping to squeeze two flights in, but that was not to be as time was going to quick.

I reduced the tail gain to see if I could get rid of the wag.  I dropped it down to 20%. the wag was reduced, but at the expense of any holding.  In the end, I put it back up to 25%.  This is a compromise with some wag and also some holding. At this point, I would rate the tail...

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By Nigel on Saturday, 12 June 2010 8:11 AM

First flight after re-setting up the 3G unit after upgrading the firmware to v2.1.

I had set the gains to 50% (about 11 o'clock on the pots) and spooled up. WOW.  extremely agile and I had a blast zooming along and doing stall turns etc.  The biggest high light was doing piros.  The only thing that caused the heli to drift was the breeze.  Piro after piro. left and right rotations it was stable as could be.  There was no other stick input required other than rudder input :)

I dialled...

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By Nigel on Saturday, 5 June 2010 9:07 AM

The morning turned out better than expected.  It was looking like it was going to be yuck, but it cleared up a bit and by the time I got down to the field it was rather nice (all be it a tad cold)

I had to replace the glow plug before the first flight as it wouldn't glow, so once that was replaced, she fired up nicely.

I videod the first flight, but didn't strap down the camera tight enough, so there was a fair amount of rippling through out the video :( I reduced the tail gain from...

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By Nigel on Saturday, 22 May 2010 9:22 AM

Wonderful conditions for flying today.  Hardly a breath of wind, and some cloud.

First flights with the Radix blades.  CG of these blades were the same, with one blade being slightly heavier.

I played with the tail gain on the first flight, increasing it to try and fix the tail issues.  I went up to 75, but wasn't game enough to go any further as the high speed wag was a little hard for me to control, so I reduced it back down to 50 where it was "hoverable", then continued to reduce...

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By Nigel on Saturday, 22 May 2010 9:21 AM

Beautiful conditions for a flight with hardly a breath of wind.

I was hoping to do circuits with the mini, but had orientation issues when it was about 30 metres away.  I have learnt with the Trex that even though the red canopies look good, they are hard to see, so I think I will be ordering some new canopies soon.

Also think I need better main blades and possibly a proper tail servo.  This used to be such a fun heli to fly and now its not.  Ever since the crash and I was unable to...

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