heli-cuzz
02-03-2007, 05:17 PM
.... I finally flew the Trex600. Unfortunately it started snowing heavy but we flew it anyway.
It was definitely interesting watching the 600 fly in the snow. No more glitch with the change of the rx and a different antenna route. My friend is good with heli set-up. The only adjustment needed was the throttle curve in idle-up. We raised the throttle from 70% to 90% at midstick{zero degrees pitch} so it looks like this: 100%-95%-90%-95%-100%.
The pitch curve is a straight line from -10 0 +10.
How it flies. The Trex600 is stable and rock solid in a hover. Don't forget, this is taking place in a stiff wind with snow blowing at our backs. The wind didn't affect it at all, ofcourse there is the usual stick corrections to hover in a strong wind. All systems check, the usual; turn left, right, TR is working correctly. Now we jam the stick full and pitch pump up into the frozen sky and straight into FFF with a nice banking turn with minimal rudder input. She's tracking beautifully. I proceed to point the nose to the ground, boom to the sky and left cyclic with rudder input and start the blade in nose down funnel. About a 40 foot diameter type. Great, it like its on tracks, just like my C-5. :D I tone it down and bring it nose in-hover. So far so good, I turn it 180 and pump it into the sky and start with a few stationary flips, that's when I brought it in to adjust the throttle curve. 70% just wasn't enough to my liking for midstick.
Quick adjustment and I take it up again, a few more stationary flips and rolls then a few tic-tocs, boom to the ground. All this time my friend kept saying, I can't see what its doing. LoL This all took place in a five minute time frame. The 600 perfomed excellent considering the weather conditions. I wasn't that impressed with it, I'd never give up my nitro 50 for a Trex600, also, I send out a big thanks to my friend for giving me the chance to fly this heli, even in a snowstorm.
Here's a pic, my wife wasn't with me so quality photos are out of the question.
It was definitely interesting watching the 600 fly in the snow. No more glitch with the change of the rx and a different antenna route. My friend is good with heli set-up. The only adjustment needed was the throttle curve in idle-up. We raised the throttle from 70% to 90% at midstick{zero degrees pitch} so it looks like this: 100%-95%-90%-95%-100%.
The pitch curve is a straight line from -10 0 +10.
How it flies. The Trex600 is stable and rock solid in a hover. Don't forget, this is taking place in a stiff wind with snow blowing at our backs. The wind didn't affect it at all, ofcourse there is the usual stick corrections to hover in a strong wind. All systems check, the usual; turn left, right, TR is working correctly. Now we jam the stick full and pitch pump up into the frozen sky and straight into FFF with a nice banking turn with minimal rudder input. She's tracking beautifully. I proceed to point the nose to the ground, boom to the sky and left cyclic with rudder input and start the blade in nose down funnel. About a 40 foot diameter type. Great, it like its on tracks, just like my C-5. :D I tone it down and bring it nose in-hover. So far so good, I turn it 180 and pump it into the sky and start with a few stationary flips, that's when I brought it in to adjust the throttle curve. 70% just wasn't enough to my liking for midstick.
Quick adjustment and I take it up again, a few more stationary flips and rolls then a few tic-tocs, boom to the ground. All this time my friend kept saying, I can't see what its doing. LoL This all took place in a five minute time frame. The 600 perfomed excellent considering the weather conditions. I wasn't that impressed with it, I'd never give up my nitro 50 for a Trex600, also, I send out a big thanks to my friend for giving me the chance to fly this heli, even in a snowstorm.
Here's a pic, my wife wasn't with me so quality photos are out of the question.