Re: Idle up questions T-Rex

hehe, those little 450s get up and get movin' pretty quick..  You'll
learn to keep 'em close so they don't get too "small".  

I find myself migrating towards the larger helis as well..  I *rarely*
fly any of my 450s anymore.  Smallest I've flown in a log time is my
Trex 500 and I'm in the middle of building a Bergen Turbine swingin'
810mm blades..  Should have that one done by the end of the month...

Well said.

I used to fly 50-sized nitro helis and have moved to the gasser world.
My current gasser heli is extremely easy to fly, thanks to its large
size and sheer mass. Then I fell in love with the T-Rex450 and added
it to the fleet. I was in for a wild surprize.

Wow, this minuscule and agile heli vanishes out of sight RIGH NOW!
Your comment above, Kevin, proved absolutely correct more than a few
times when strictly speaking I could not tell for sure just where the
T-Rex is pointing (aaarrgghhh, eyes are getting old).

Keeping continuous track of what the heli is doing versus the expected
flight path from control inputs has repeatedly enabled me to "fly
through" tough orientation situations. Some self-control and of course
varied amounts of luck come into play here too. :)

If you can keep track of where the heli was headed and what you expect
it to do with your control inputs, maintaining orientation in your
head will become a lot easier...

just been out with my T-Rex first time for a while, had a play with the
idle up switch what a anti climax hardly made any great difference to
the height, don't know why I was so worried ;-), had a go a a 540 stall
turn for a laugh not tried a loop yet seems like it will loop quite
easily, but decided to sort of stall turn before it went to far perhaps
next week :-), as I am still getting used to the orientation it seem to
heading back towards me even though its flying away but that I hope will
come with a bit more flying

Easy.  Set your mechs up so mid stick gives you 0 pitch.  Set your
pitch curves however you want for each mode, but match the curves from
mid-stick up to each other.  Do the same for the throttle curves.
Voila!  No more surprises when switching between modes.

Here's how most of my electric helis are set up:

NOR-THR 0, 45, 90, 95, 100
NOR-PIT 42, 46, 50, 75, 100

ILD1-THR 100, 95, 90 95, 100
IDL1-PIT 0, 25, 50, 75, 100

See how the curves match each other from mid-stick up?  I can switch
between modes all day long in the air and you'd never know it unless
you saw me flip the switch.

starting to get a bit more bold in flying around now,
so how do you set the pitch so when you change from one idle up setting
to another the heli does not leap up or down?
do I set it in normal so it hovers at 3/4 stick? so when I go to idle up
its more or less the same?
as I have been dying to have a go at a loop or stall turn but been a bit
worried if I hit idle up its going to go pear shape and dive for the
ground