UK Heli Log

Check out the new look website at www.avantrc.com, in particular have a look at the Products section, very exciting

An outstanding flight from Jason Bell at IRCHA 2009

Avant continues their vicious advertising campaign, which I have to say is working quite well for me

Team Avant will be showcasing this bad boy at IRCHA 2009 (which has started already) and is also the main prize in the IRCHA’s raffle. This is not a conversion kit but in fact a brand new kit that Avant are going to be offering.

Initially the kit looks like it will have plenty of part overlap with the nitro version, I’m only speculating but things like; the head (of course), boom and tail, main gear, landing gear… This is good for anyone looking to make the switch to electric.

(also see: News from Avant RC)

I’ve been lucky enough to have owned an Aurora for over a year now and I must say it’s an amazing machine. For sometime now I’ve been running a custom head configuration based on the “Active” setup in the manual. Let just say active is truly active, which is fine on those still dead calm days but when the wind is up I find the heli a little flighty or jumpy which can be a little unnerving.

At first I attacked the problem by adding more expo but really once you get up to about 30%+ it’s just getting a little silly. I then moved to the outer hole on the flybar carrier, then finally tried the inner hole (on the flybar cage side) on the upper mixing arm. You’ll also notice that I flipped the upper mixing arm in order to give the link from the swash to upper mixing arm more clearance to minimize the possibly of binding.

Summary

Basically this an “Active” setup with the “Ultra Stable” flybar configuration which I’m finding really smooths out the flight characteristic while maintaining the edgy-ness of “Active”. Needless to say I can now drop the expo down to a more reasonable value, at the moment it around 20% but I’m sure it can go further.