All right.. so here i am, a while after the last post on this thread...
This post is gonna be a little long, to give you a little bit of my flying backgroundd, so you can understand how i do feel.
as i stated on another thread i started, i recently crashed trying to move my bird... I'm fine when it gets to hover, any direction, i even prefer nose in, i kinda like the challenge of it. But since this bird is my first CP Heli as i could say, i do have over by now, about 70 hours or even more in Phoenix 4 Sim, but in real life, the only other heli i flew before was my old E-Flite Blade CX, which i only flew inside an did inside circuits, then i got myself an E-Flite Blade 120 SR, which i also, flew inside, but since it's a little bit more tricky as a Single Rotor Fixed Pitch and how my appartement is made, it's too tough to fly it inside, so back then, i flew it / hover inside for about a week at the beginning of winter, then i got Phoenix 4, not to mentioned ever since i got the sim, i never flew my 120 SR....
So all that to say that, for a first CP Heli, a T-Rex 450 Pro DFC when moving, is a total demon for a beginner, even though i'm sure the fact i had a BeastX instead of the 3GX made it easier to start with. So about one week and a half, since i felt confortable hovering with it, any direction, i tried to get it moving... and with a curve which wasn't suited for me.... so it lasted about 3 minutes, when i tried to turn it back with a bank turn, it hit some tree branches.. i almost made a clean turn, but i kinda needed about 2-3 feet to clear my turn... so not to mentioned what happened, some stuff are Scratch and Sniff, some other are Fish and chips, some say don't drink and drive, but that day, what i did was, Smash and Crash
I then 2 nights ago, came up with a thought... That the BeastX comes with a setting option/menu, which is Control Behavior. In this menu you got a few options, if i am not mistaken those are; Normal, Sport, Pro, Expert and Transmitter. By default it's set on Sport... so i came up witth he idea that, since it's a really sensitive bird.. if i do add some positive Expo it might tame the bird down a bid.... so i though, to try out Normal settings, and see how it does react, might be easier for a beginner, but when you set up on of those 4 presets, it is recommended, if not,forbidden, to use TX Dual/Expo, so that's where the Transmitter option comes in play, it allows you to use your TX settings. So i made some reading on the web, since i wasn't sure which one to use, Normal preset or Transmitter settup with rates i can adjust.... so i went for a settings with the TX.
I wasn't able the try it out yet, it was freaking windy these days, so i tried to enter the exact same settings in Phoenix, even in the same i was more confortable with the settings, even though the T-Rex 450 3Gx doesn't feel the same thing at all as a DFC 450 Pro in real life, but still makes me feel a difference.
Today the wind has finaly calm down, i might be able to try this settings has hovering, see how the controls react....
I'm curious to know, for some of you guys using the same setup (450 Pro DFC + AR7200X) and remember when you first started, some hint and tips, because that bird is a nasty one to start with, way more nervous and sensitive than a flybar one etc....
I even made a little video on youtube, to show that as for as it is now, i'm doing not bad in the sim... and not being able to move inr eal life, kinda frustrate me.. at the point i am mostly wondering if i'll ever be able to... but we'll see with some settings that tame the bird down a bit.
So i changed the settings in the sim for the exact one i have in real life, which is;
Collective Pitch Range : -11,7 / + 11,2 (that oscilating digital pitch gauge, plus the fact you can only adjust ball link one full turn at a time, makes it tough to be on perfect pith you want)
Throttle curve : 0/60/75/75/75
Pitch Curve : -5,7 deg. (25%) / -3,7 deg. (34 %) / 0 deg. (52%) / 5,2 deg. (75%) / 11,2 deg. (100%)
Dual Rate : D/R 80% and Exponential +20%
Phoenix 4 R/C Sim - T-Rex 450 Pro Circuits - YouTube