Dec 22, 2012

Skookum SK540/720 Tuning Guide by Alvin Chai

Fellow Team Skookum Pilot, Alvin Chai was gracious enough to allow us to post his tuning guide here in our Tech Tip section. This is a fantastic guide that I personally find to be very accurate. I will make some comments you’ll see in blue writing with just some of my personal preferences and findings… more »

SK-LCD Field Terminal Connector Mod

Anyone who has used the SK-LCD Field Terminal knows that it’s a very powerful little programmer and has now replaced my laptop a the field. One thing I found that I didn’t care for though was the connector. The connector is a very tight fit into the SK-540 and there’s simply nothing to grab to… more »

Nov 18, 2012

SK540 Governor with CC ESC

I’m not going to promise that this will work but it’s worked on mine and one other persons heli that we tried it on so it’s worth a shot. This is for using a CC ESC in the SK’s gov mode. I’ll start off by saying that if you put the CC in MulitRotor mode… more »

Nov 17, 2012

Leading versus Trailing Edge Control: A Brief Foray into Rotor Head Mechanics

I get a lot of questions surrounding the the differences between leading and trailing edge control on flybarless systems…What’s the difference? Should I care? This one trips up a lot of people because of the complexity of the topic, but I think it’s worth explaining. First and foremost, in today’s FBL systems where the delta angle… more »

Oct 31, 2012

BeastX V3 Tuning Guide

I recently collaborated with Stefan from BeastX to help go through some of my previous recommendations in the Tuning Guide. I gained a lot of understanding on the parameters and found there were some definite cases of misunderstandings due to language barriers and wording in general. We discussed the differences in tuning large vs. smaller… more »

Flybarless Tail Tuning with V-Bar/Logo Example

Some of you may recognize this tech tip from my original tail tuning guide in the V-Bar forums on Helifreak. I originally wrote this in response to requests for a sticky regarding Logo/V-Bar tail issues, but I’d like to emphasize that this is applicable to pretty much any heli or flybarless system. For troubleshooting purposes… more »