Tony
Staff member
But not without issues...
Thanks to URI, I had a perfect Dominator frame sitting in my house with nothing to do with it. So I decided I liked the frame better since I can put the AR7200BX inside the frame and hide the wires. Not realizing at the time that setting it up would be a royal pain in the ass. But I did it.
The story starts MONTHS ago when I first received the frame. I was going to just build the 450L Dominator but the cost of parts would have been more than a Super Combo Kit. So I put the frame in a box and put it up. Then a few weeks later, that is when I decided to put the Dominator frame on the 450 Pro. And I did. I mounted all of the electronics, I mounted the gyro inside the frame and she was ready to setup.
From here, the helicopter sat for a good couple of months. I was too into the quad scene and the helicopters suffered (and apparently so did I...).
Today, I put the helicopter on my desk, and started doing the programming that I knew it needed. I inverted the gyro, so the comp setting would be reversed as would the aileron and tail gyros. Fine, I reversed those and took it out to fly. That is the first, very short, section of the video (I will post the video in a little bit). Once I came back inside, I went through menu G and set center (elevator was a little off) then I did J and actually got a blue light at 6º!!! then I did K and set it to 12º of collective. It was only at 8º...
Then, I went back out and tested it again. I don't know if quads have killed my helicopter fingers or what, but the helicopter didn't feel the way I remember a BX feeling. It was all over the place and it felt like there was only a fraction of an inch between going up and going down, fast! It just didn't feel right. So I cut the flight short and came back in.
I'm sure you noticed that I called this one the 450 Dominator, not the 450L Dominator. That is because I still have the 325mm blades and the stock Pro tail on it. I upgraded the tail block, but put the Pro tail grips on it (Dom grips are wider for larger blades). But, now it sits because working on that gyro is just a severe pain in the ass. I want to put an Ikon in it but I don't have any satellite Rx's to put on it. They are all in the quads. Soldered in mind you. So I would need new wires as well.
So that is where I sit now with the 450 Dom. What do you guys think I should do? Do you think I have been ruined by quads? Is Stambo right, did flying in Attitude mode teach me bad habits? It's funny, I can toss a quad around the sky without a worry in the world. But the second I put this helicopter in the air, I couldn't even fly the damn thing around. My hands just froze. Mainly because the helicopter just didn't feel right. But maybe it's normal and I just don't know it thanks to the quads...
What do you think?
I will try to get the video up here shortly. It's still on the camera and I don't even know if the footage is any good. So there may not be any video. We will just have to wait and see....
Thanks to URI, I had a perfect Dominator frame sitting in my house with nothing to do with it. So I decided I liked the frame better since I can put the AR7200BX inside the frame and hide the wires. Not realizing at the time that setting it up would be a royal pain in the ass. But I did it.
The story starts MONTHS ago when I first received the frame. I was going to just build the 450L Dominator but the cost of parts would have been more than a Super Combo Kit. So I put the frame in a box and put it up. Then a few weeks later, that is when I decided to put the Dominator frame on the 450 Pro. And I did. I mounted all of the electronics, I mounted the gyro inside the frame and she was ready to setup.
From here, the helicopter sat for a good couple of months. I was too into the quad scene and the helicopters suffered (and apparently so did I...).
Today, I put the helicopter on my desk, and started doing the programming that I knew it needed. I inverted the gyro, so the comp setting would be reversed as would the aileron and tail gyros. Fine, I reversed those and took it out to fly. That is the first, very short, section of the video (I will post the video in a little bit). Once I came back inside, I went through menu G and set center (elevator was a little off) then I did J and actually got a blue light at 6º!!! then I did K and set it to 12º of collective. It was only at 8º...
Then, I went back out and tested it again. I don't know if quads have killed my helicopter fingers or what, but the helicopter didn't feel the way I remember a BX feeling. It was all over the place and it felt like there was only a fraction of an inch between going up and going down, fast! It just didn't feel right. So I cut the flight short and came back in.
I'm sure you noticed that I called this one the 450 Dominator, not the 450L Dominator. That is because I still have the 325mm blades and the stock Pro tail on it. I upgraded the tail block, but put the Pro tail grips on it (Dom grips are wider for larger blades). But, now it sits because working on that gyro is just a severe pain in the ass. I want to put an Ikon in it but I don't have any satellite Rx's to put on it. They are all in the quads. Soldered in mind you. So I would need new wires as well.
So that is where I sit now with the 450 Dom. What do you guys think I should do? Do you think I have been ruined by quads? Is Stambo right, did flying in Attitude mode teach me bad habits? It's funny, I can toss a quad around the sky without a worry in the world. But the second I put this helicopter in the air, I couldn't even fly the damn thing around. My hands just froze. Mainly because the helicopter just didn't feel right. But maybe it's normal and I just don't know it thanks to the quads...
What do you think?
I will try to get the video up here shortly. It's still on the camera and I don't even know if the footage is any good. So there may not be any video. We will just have to wait and see....
