Is flying manual difficult?

[Billzilla]

I've been flying around in attitude mode only and was wondering how hard it was to go to the manual mode and make an F550 hover & fly around.

Is it possible to switch modes safely in-flight?

 

[Bowley]

As long as you have all your orientations sussed its fine, its basically like flying a regular rc heli, but with slow rate of yaw. start of with low rates and a good bit of expo. and keep it close. cheap fixed pitch helis like the honeybee are great for learning and dont cost much to repair.

switching mode in air is ok if you have your throttle set correctly.

 

[Billzilla]

Thanks.
I've never flown a (model) helicopter before though.

 

[tstrike]

It's not that bad on my 450, you have to be a little more busy with the throttle and it's more responsive. Take off in Atti mode and get some alt. before you flip the switch, but be ready because it may want to rise kind of fast (or fall depending on where your throttle stick is at the moment). The most important thing is don't do it in the house (trust me on this, I know, the wife knows, the dogs know and the drywall repairman will know why).

 

[Bowley]

Thanks.
I've never flown a (model) helicopter before though.

You probably want to get a honeybee or such like to do all your 'ground interceptions' with!! F550 could get costly.

 

[Billzilla]

Thanks for that guys.
Looks like I'll stick to attitude for the while, until I get much better at flying it.

 

[mailman35]

atti is quite fun, just takes tweaking the gains to get the craft to fly as you need it to.

 

[Dewster]

lol! Yeah...flying in the house can be tricky.

 

[Dewster]

I won't fly it in manual. I'm completely satisfied with attitude and GPS. Someone mentioned that their craft shot up into the sky because of the throttle position when they switched to manual mode. I'm using my ship to take photos and I don't want suprises.

 

[Bella7821]

I have a F550 and tried manual for the first time while hovering and I don't like it. I'm sure I can mellow it out with expo but being a beginner and having FPV gear, landing gear, and my Sony Nex5n attached I'm perfectly happy in ATTI mode.

 

[tstrike]

Remember, we're the ones trying to use these for photography, they were meant to be fun flyers and gateway drugs and such. Your either the guy that pushes the big red button or not. The 450 bare bones stock in manual mode isn't that big and scary, it's just busier. Atti mode is still the way I fly but gosh, sometimes it's nice to let your bird run butt naked the way the chinese gods intended and flip the switch to the other side of failsafe imho.

 

[kloner]

They got mad power in manual compared to atti. turns off the governor or whatever it is that ensures it not flip over in atti through out a pack. on my logger it looks like it gives it another 10 amps with it off, that's like 25% more power but alot more aerobatic in nature.

it's exactly like a heli control wise.