Eagle A3 Pro

[Teslamandex]

When setting up the Eagle A3 Pro, you are instructed to select NORMAL wing type on the transmitter. When you do this on a Spektrum transmitter, you no longer have the flap setting menu. How does one set up the 3 flap positions with this conflict? If a wing type other than NORMAL is chosen, does the A3 Pro go haywire? Thanks for any insight on this matter. It’s my first A3 install.

[xviper]

These HobbyEagles don’t do anything with flaps. When they say “normal” wing and you have a plane with flaps, you select “1 AIL, 1 Flap”. That is still considered a “normal” wing. The gyro controls only those control surfaces that are your main axis. Flaps don’t get plugged into the gyro. That part of the programming is only for your TX so it knows to open up the flap menu.

[Teslamandex]

xviper,

Thanks so much for the confirmation. That is how I set up the wing type on my FW MiG-29. Just didn’t want the A3 Pro’s set up to be the blame for any MiG issues. Will wait until I have a couple of post-maiden flights before flipping the switch on the gyro 3 mistakes high.

[xviper]

Caveat: Things change a little bit if you have your 2 ailerons on separate channels instead of having them "Y'd" together, resulting in only one lead. I believe you still have "normal" wing and flap on the TX but you must tell the gyro that you've got 2 distinct ailerons, where one goes into the AIL channel and the other goes into another channel (not sure which one - ordinarily it would go into "flap" but in your case, you can't since you've got actual flaps unless you put the flaps into an entirely different port and do a mix to make them work).

[Teslamandex]

My ailerons are on a y-cable.