UNIVERSAL Helicopter
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On we go with the THROTTLE curve
If you are still in the Curve menu press the button
to return you to the Transmitter controls menu. There
you can select the throttle curve (press 1 x ). Here
again we increase the number of curve points to five.
1. Press the button
3-PNT flashes
2. Press 1 x
This sets a 5-point throttle curve for the flight
mode Hover.
The menu should now look like this:
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Press 2 x to open the throttle curve.
IMPORTANT!
In the throttle curve the values available lie be-
tween
0% = idle or motor off, and
100% = full throttle
You cannot set throttle values with a negative
prefix.
Here again the five points can be selected using the
COLLECTIVE PITCH STICK; we recommend that you
set the following values:
Point Value
1 25%
2 30%
3 45%
4 70%
5 85%
The purpose of setting the first point to 25% is to en-
sure that the motor does not cut at COLLECTIVE
PITCH minimum.
The tip we gave for the COLLECTIVE PITCH curve
also applies here:
If you select the appropriate menu you can adjust
the THROTTLE curve while the model is actually
in flight.
And finally back to the TAIL ROTOR curve
Pressing returns you to the Transmitter controls
menu, and you can select the TAIL ROTOR curve by
pressing or . Here we will mix COLLECTIVE
PITCH into tail rotor to prevent the tail swinging when
you vary motor speed.
The first step once again is to raise the number of
curve points to 5.
1. Press the button
3-PNT flashes
2. Press the button once
This sets a 5-point TAIL ROTOR curve for the
flight mode Hover.
The menu should now look like this:
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Pressing twice opens the TAIL ROTOR curve. In
this case the default value for all five points is 0%,
which means that no unexpected effects will occur
even if you make no changes at all to the tail rotor
curve.
We can now move the COLLECTIVE PITCH stick to
select the five points in turn and set the following val-
ues:
Point Value
1 -20%
2-5%
3 10%
4 20%
5 30%
To obtain the optimum settings for your particular
helicopter you will probably need to fine-tune them in
actual flight testing.
And what about FLARE?
We will leave this curve unchanged for the moment.
Its default setting is 0%, and it therefore has no effect.
Of course, you can change the values subsequently if
you wish to prevent the helicopter ballooning up at
negative collective pitch values, but this can be ig-
nored for hovering.
And that completes the task of setting up
Flight Mode 1 - Hover.
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