Finishing Cont.
☐
Mount Receiver on battery tray near the
servos. The ESC occupies the forward part
of the battery compartment, but is not
permanently mounted. Pass the servo leads
through the clearance holes on either side of
the receiver. Complete electrical connections
and mount your battery with hook and loop
tape within the fuselage.
☐
Mount the wing on the fuselage and secure
with four #32 rubber bands (two per side).
Your
SkyBuggy
™ is complete and ready for
pre-flight.
Flight Control Setup
☐
Inspect wing for any warps that may have
worked their way in when covering or while
the model was in storage and remove prior to
flight.
DO NOT ATTEMPT FLIGHT IF WING
IS WARPED
. Lack of aileron control on this
model will make contending with a warped
wing very difficult.
FIX THE WARP.
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Center control surface then set direction, rate
of travel, and dampening (expo).
Rudder servo should be controlled by the
Aileron channel of your radio as rudder on
this model also controls roll of the aircraft.
Rudder should follow Aileron stick travel i.e.
moving Aileron stick to right should move
Rudder to right of aircraft. Likewise, left
Aileron stick input will move Rudder left.
Elevator servo will be controlled by Elevator
channel of your radio. Pulling back on the
Elevator stick should result in the Elevator
moving UP! Likewise, forward stick results in
the Elevator moving DOWN!
SkyBuggy
™ is designed to be a very docile
flyer, therefore the flight controls are set up for
fairly minimal throws. With the pushrods
connected to the outer holes on the control
horns (as they should be for test flights), the
Rudder and Elevator throws should be as
follows:
Rudder Travel
(rudder is VERY effective)
Low Rate +/- 15 degrees
30% expo
High Rate +/- 30 degrees
70% expo
Elevator Travel
Low Rate +/- 15 degrees
30% expo
High Rate +/- 30 degrees
70% expo
The above Exponential settings apply only to
computer radios.
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