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today i used a pitch guage to check my pitch on the low mid and high stick. was surprised to learn i was running exceptionally high pitch.
i had 7+ degrees on mid stick and 13-14 degrees on the high end. i used the radio and set it back to 5.5 and 11 on the mid and high ends respectively. did a flight and found that the heli couldn't maintain altitude on mid stick and i was hovering almost at 3/4 stick, and this was on normal mode. the top end was seriously lacking in any climb performance.
rpm wise, the os37 is running..uh. there's tons of smoke, but engine's still overheating. nonetheless, the rpm seems good. in fact, it looks abit on the high side for hovering and forward flight. i didn't have a tach, but a good estimate was that it was safely over 1600rpm.
since rpm seems ok, and the pitch guage is correct, the only thing that could be happening is that the bird is overweight. the only heavier than normal thing i have is the battery. i'm using 4 sub c sized nimhs. my 502 could possibly contribute to this.
what i would like to know is, what is the average weight for a raptor 30, and what other reason could be contributing to it? i would like to know if anyone else is running sub c on their 30 rappys and how's the performance like.
i had 7+ degrees on mid stick and 13-14 degrees on the high end. i used the radio and set it back to 5.5 and 11 on the mid and high ends respectively. did a flight and found that the heli couldn't maintain altitude on mid stick and i was hovering almost at 3/4 stick, and this was on normal mode. the top end was seriously lacking in any climb performance.
rpm wise, the os37 is running..uh. there's tons of smoke, but engine's still overheating. nonetheless, the rpm seems good. in fact, it looks abit on the high side for hovering and forward flight. i didn't have a tach, but a good estimate was that it was safely over 1600rpm.
since rpm seems ok, and the pitch guage is correct, the only thing that could be happening is that the bird is overweight. the only heavier than normal thing i have is the battery. i'm using 4 sub c sized nimhs. my 502 could possibly contribute to this.
what i would like to know is, what is the average weight for a raptor 30, and what other reason could be contributing to it? i would like to know if anyone else is running sub c on their 30 rappys and how's the performance like.
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