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Where to use the gyro?
The first thing you need to decide is which axis you want to use the gyro in.
Aileron
: Helps with stability in the wind to keep wind gusts from flipping the
wing over. Especially on take off and landing. A gyro on a foamie can
make 15mph feel like 5mph. Wind can still make the airplane move up and
down with the wind as well as flip over when not moving forwards on the
runway.
Elevator: Helps some with stabiltiy in high winds. Also very
helpful to stabilize short coupled aircraft (short tails) or aircraft
that is tail heavy. Be careful though, I have heard that using a gyro
on the elevator can sometimes change the stall charactoristics of the
plane, for better or for worse.
Rudder/nose wheel: Can help with
"squirrely" tail draggers or ducted fan jets on take off. This
sometimes requires altering the amount of throw or being able to turn
the gyro on and off (with a seperate switch like the GWS PC-03).
Rotation axis
The
next thing you need to do is to determine the rotation axis of the
gyro. This determines how you place the gyro into the aircraft. You
often have to refer to the gyro manual or examples of how the gyro is
mounted in a helicopter as a comparrison. Some gyros are
mounted with the label perpindicular to the axis of rotation while
others are mounted with the label parallel to the axis of rotation.
Gyros with the label that is perpindicular to the axis of rotation:
- Esky 704 (Silver/BLue)
- Esky 704B (black/purple)
- Futaba GY401
- Futaba GY240 (use this with AVCS mode turned off via the switch)
- Colco GY400
- Xmseller G401B
- Logitech 2100T
Gyros with the lavel that is parallel to the axis of rotation:
- Esky 704A (Black/Blue)
- MKS GY292
- Telebee GR302-AD
- GWS PG-03
- MKS 380
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