Greetings fellow flyers,
I have the 1400mm P51 Mustang which is a 6 channel air craft. I run the spectrum DX6I radio which is a 6 channel radio. On my shelf was a Hobby Eagle AL-3 gyro and I wanted to put it in my P51. But I cant because I need a 7th channel to make the gyro work, right? WRONG! Check this out!
My P51 is plenty stable in flight do the large wing span. Any plane of this size is plenty stable in flight. But taking off and landing can be very scary at times. Where I really could use the extra stability is in theses areas. So I hooked up the Hobby Eagle gyro in my P51, and used a Y harness connecting the gyro in sink with the flaps. Flaps on, Gyro on. Flaps off, gyro off. On takes offs I just simply deploy the flaps turning the gyro on. Once I'm air born, Just retract the flaps and this turns the gyro off. Dont need flaps or gyro when flying. So when its time to land, deploy the flaps and TA DA, gyro is turned back on. I'm just splitting the flap channel with a Y harness so the flap switch does 2 functions at the same time instead of just one. There is 2 other things to note. Gyro will NOT turn on if below 51% on your flap deploy settings, and you will need a servo reverser inline to get the gyro to work in regular mode, other wise the gyro will turn on in 3D mode when you plug in the main batt, and gyro will turn off when flaps are deployed. Happy Take offs and Landings from the Pacific NW. :cool:
I have the 1400mm P51 Mustang which is a 6 channel air craft. I run the spectrum DX6I radio which is a 6 channel radio. On my shelf was a Hobby Eagle AL-3 gyro and I wanted to put it in my P51. But I cant because I need a 7th channel to make the gyro work, right? WRONG! Check this out!
My P51 is plenty stable in flight do the large wing span. Any plane of this size is plenty stable in flight. But taking off and landing can be very scary at times. Where I really could use the extra stability is in theses areas. So I hooked up the Hobby Eagle gyro in my P51, and used a Y harness connecting the gyro in sink with the flaps. Flaps on, Gyro on. Flaps off, gyro off. On takes offs I just simply deploy the flaps turning the gyro on. Once I'm air born, Just retract the flaps and this turns the gyro off. Dont need flaps or gyro when flying. So when its time to land, deploy the flaps and TA DA, gyro is turned back on. I'm just splitting the flap channel with a Y harness so the flap switch does 2 functions at the same time instead of just one. There is 2 other things to note. Gyro will NOT turn on if below 51% on your flap deploy settings, and you will need a servo reverser inline to get the gyro to work in regular mode, other wise the gyro will turn on in 3D mode when you plug in the main batt, and gyro will turn off when flaps are deployed. Happy Take offs and Landings from the Pacific NW. :cool:
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