Thursday, June 27, 2013

MSH Brain self leveling feature

The MSH Brain has a self leveling feature to aid in learning to fly. It makes the heli fly like a coaxial bird by leveling the swash when the cyclic is centered. It can also work as a bailout aid by leveling the heli from any bank angle and even from inverted!  To do this you have one of the setup banks with self level enabled. Thus when you switch to that bank via the aux channel, the heli will level itself. You will need to control the collective though, so just put in positive pitch when the switch is flipped and you will go away from the ground. 

I tested this feature on the bench by tilting the heli over as if it was banked in a turn and turning on self level and letting go of the cyclic. The swash tilted to level the heli!  

There have been reports that vibrations will make the swash jump when switching into self level. To test this, I took the main and tail blades off and spun the motor up to full speed, tilted the heli on its side, them switched in and out of self level. The swash tilted to right the heli and didn't jump around. 

Next time I go fly, I'll test self level in the air by banking the heli and centering the cyclic. If self leveling is working the heli will level itself. Without self level it would continue at the same bank angle. 

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