CenturyUK's GL450SE - Pilot : Ian Contessa

Hello Matey, Yeah I remember you, it's good to hear from you buddy. I'm glad to hear your GL has served you well and been honing your flying skills. Mine has gone on to another newbie and it to has been used to learn with and now progress onto a larger model.
Yes, my old friend and fellow CenturyUK sponsored pilot John Parker used a picture of one of my Predators. What you thinking of getting next? Ian

Well, its funny you should ask that! I currently own a T-rex 450SE V2, 600E and 600NSP. I've been thinking about buying myself a T-rex 500 ESP, but not sure if to go for it or not. If I did, I'm trying to decide if to get the Align 750 gyro and 520 or go trusty 401/9257. What do you reckon? Is the 500 worth it... only thing I'm thinking about is the flight times. Are they pretty short? Have you still got your 500? What batteries are worth getting? :-)

Hi John, As your aware putting in a load of collective pitch will load up the main rotors which in turn will slwo down the tail rotor, making it less powerful. So as the gyro tries to counteract the torque change the tail rotor just runs out of power as it slows down. Also, if your still using the stock tail servo it isn't the most powerful & so you may also be reaching the limits of it's holding power, which then shows up with the tail swinging. There could also be too much + pitch.......

this has the same effect by slowing the main rotors down too much, which in turn impacts the tail rotor speed & control.
Throttle curves could also be to low, you maybe aware already but you need to run a constant 80% or more on the ESC at all times to avoid over heating of the ESC. That is probably where my model sounds faster than yours as most of the time I am in idleup 2 for the aerobatics............

A short answer is yes, the head speed could be too low also which gives the problems mentioned above. But mine was stock, just wound up to give me the power which you can do and I just added a better tail servo which was more powerful to move the tail as required. Hope this helps? Let me know what you try and what you find. Ian

Hi, Thanks for the advice. I increased the head speed and things are much better now. It is still a little bit out but I am sure that it is just a case of fine tuning now.
Thanks, John

Hey John, Ah cool this is what we want to hear. These little models do like a high head speed, they sound intimidating but they also lock in better with the rest of the controls. Your very welcome buddy, have fun and keep me informed of how you get on. Ian