Inverted Flight In Practice - Reely SKY Typhoon Notice D'emploi

b) Inverted flight in practice
Before attempting your first aerobatics with your model helicopter we recommend you check the values given in the
table for the rotor blade angle of attack, making adjustments where necessary. Your model accessories supplier will
have a wide selection of equipment for precise measurement of the angle of attack of the rotor blades. The tools for
doing this have been covered in chapter 8. e).
Prior to your first inverted flight, check the installation of the receiver antenna wire. It may not be so
loose as to be able to come free and enter the rotor!
Once the helicopter battery has been freshly recharged, take your helicopter up to a minimum flying altitude. This
should be high enough for you to easily regain control over the helicopter should a problem occur. It should not be too
high as this would make it hard to see how the helicopter is flying.
Now press the inverted flight toggle switch and first test how your helicopter flies in the normal flying position. The
model will react considerably more sensitively due to the higher rotor head speed. Once you have got used to the
different flying characteristics, you can execute a half roll or a half loop to bring the helicopter into the inverted flying
position. If you now, very carefully, pull back the gas / pitch lever the helicopter can be held hovering upside down.
Warning!
Even when the helicopter nose is pointing towards you, the tilt and pitch functions will react in the
opposite direction to normal.
Depending on the current flying position of the helicopter the model will now react to the corresponding
control commands from the transmitter.
It is these constantly changing reaction directions which make aerobatics with a model helicopter so
difficult but also so fascinating.
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