Today was the first day of flying for my 550! This was the first time I've flown such a big machine. On the first spool up I checked the blade tracking and it was spot on due to using a digital pitch gauge during setup to make sure the pitch was equal on each blade. On my first attempt to lift off, the tail was reacting weird, so I shut down right away. Turns out I got the rudder movement backward during setup. After reversing the rudder servo, resetting the sub trim, establishing the gyro limits, and verifying the gyro response, I was ready to try again.
This time everything was responding the way it should, so I lifted off! The heli was super stable and needed very little input to keep in position. I just hovered, looking for wagging of the tail or swash plate, and getting a feel for the controls.
For the second battery I increased the flight time by one minute. I also tried some collective climbs. The response felt slow compared to my smaller 450 heli. I think I'll reprogram the speedo and redo my throttle curves for next time. I may also get the bigger 550 mm blades.
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