User Manual
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We recommend to remove main and tail rotorblades before the rst ight and let the motor/engi-
ne run at all speeds. Caution: Risk of injury!
Watch whether the swashplate automatically starts to tilt in one direction or begins to twitch at
a specic speed. This usually is a sure sign that the helicopter mechanics vibrate at a very high
frequent range which disturb the sensors of MICROBEAST.
Before the rst ight it is absolutely necessarily to prevent the cause of these vibrations. Often
simply the attachment of the cables or MICROBEAST is not optimal, so that vibrations can very
easily be transferred to the MICROBEAST.
Just before lift o make sure that the swashplate is horizontal and that the tail pitch slider is near cen-
tered. You can shortly switch to Normal-Rate mode, in this mode the tail servo will always center itself
if the tail stick is released.
Avoid excessive steering during lift o otherwise the helicopter may tip over!
The best way is to give a fair and direct pitch input to lift the helicopter quickly up into the air. This de-
mands some re-education, if you have only own ybared helicopters before.
Now at rst you should try to nd the maximum possible tail gain and later on do some ne tuning as
described in chapters 8 and 9 if necessary.