Hey guy's Are you sure that's 20 sec or 20 hours to do all that on the stylus. WOW! Dreaming to be a Stylus boy. Cheers. AL ----- Original Message ----- From: "david zucker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Elvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Hoopes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Stylus Programming Question... > Hey Tom, > > YOUR GOOD, MAN!! ;-) > > Zucker > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Hoopes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Elvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:09 AM > Subject: Re: [RCSE] Stylus Programming Question... > > > > At 07:28 PM 6/16/01 -0700, Elvis wrote: > > >I would like to get flaps, and only the flaps, to deploy for half the > stick > > >range and more flaps with "crow" for the other half of the stick range. > Is > > >there a way to program the Airtronics Stylus to do this? > > > > > > > Hi Elvis, > > > > This one's for the money ;-) > > > > Actually implementing flap stick positionally activated Crow (the function > you > > describe) is not too difficult on the Stylus. > > > > First, you need to decide at which position of the flap stick you wish > Crow to > > kick in (50% for "half stick"). Also you will need at least two unused > C-MIXes > > (preferrably a third for compensation). > > > > Second, go to the Stick Switch menu (ST-SW). Select SP after the channel > (CH). > > Move the flap stick to the desired point that you wish Crow to be > activated. > > Let's say the last 50% of travel. Move the flap stick down until the ST% > is > > 50. > > Position the cursor of the "P" in PNT. Press the YES(+) key and the PNT > will > > reflect the ST position. Scroll ahead and select "L". When the flap stick > is > > pulled toward the bottom of the travel crossing the ST% point the prompt > > should > > change from "OFF" to "ON". Before leaving the Stick Switch menu, remember > > which > > one of the 6 stick switches you assigned this function to. > > > > Third, move over to the landing menu (LAND) and zero out the CROW:L-AI & > R-AI. > > This eliminates the CROW (aileron "UP" travel) that occurred during normal > > landing mode. > > > > Fourth, go to the switch (SW) menu and move to the two unused C-MIXes > (let's > > say C-MIX1 and C-MIX2). Enter the Stick Switch number (from 2nd step) as > the > > mixer(s) activator. > > > > Fifth, go to the first unused C-MIX. Enter Flap (FL) for the master (MAS) > and > > left aileron (LA) for the slave (SLA). Now with the flap stick pulled all > the > > way to the bottom, enter either a (+) or (-) value in the % position (top, > > right corner of display) until the left aileron raises to the desired > > position. > > Remember this value. Move to C-MIX2 and enter the > > same information with the exception reversing the sign of the mix > percentage > > and change the slave (SLA) to right aileron (RA). Now you should have just > the > > flaps drooping until the flap stick crosses the "CROW" threshold, at which > > point the ailerons should then move up into crow position. > > > > Sixth, if you have already used the two-point flap-to-elevator > compensation in > > the MIX menu, then you will need to use a third C-MIX to compensate > pitching > > when the CROW threshold is crossed. I'll let you guess on this one. If you > are > > using just one point of the flap-to-elevator compensation and happy with > the > > pitch compensation, then subtact the stick switch percentage (50%) from > 100% > > (this is because the compensation point is read > > opposite of the stick switch position) resulting in 50%. Set the POINT to > 50%. > > > > Seventh, go fly the plane and observe the plane's pitch when the CROW > > threshold > > is crossed. Increase the compensation percentage at point #2 as needed to > > minimize pitch changes when CROW is activated. > > > > BTW, this procedure took about 20x the amount of time that the actual > > programming > > should take. > > > > > > Stylus Boy has left the building..... > > > > > > Tom Hoopes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" > and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
