Gyro/Stabilization

Any links to more information about setting up any of the gyro options in RF? There are a few in the editor that look to have been there for a few versions..
 
Any links to more information about setting up any of the gyro options in RF? There are a few in the editor that look to have been there for a few versions..

see the post below here for gyros.

AFS Gyros are fairly simple they try and hold the aircraft at a specific attiude and more degrees away from the attitude the more output it spits out. the percent output per degree off increases as the gain increases. they have a few bugs in them like the yaw afs gyro reads the roll axis and the roll also reads the roll axis. and inverted can spit out some odd results

the flight controlers are something I don't mess with much so they are greek to me

For RealFlight 6 .........
Gyro Setup

The new gyro is a complete rewrite. Most of the settings will carry over and allow general functioning in a similar manner to G5.5 but a few will need to be adjusted.

In general, Control Override should first be tried at 0%. There is usually no need to override it. If the heli isn't responding to commanded yaw correctly, look at other settings first.

If the tail is oscillating, turn the Heading Hold gain to zero, and if it still oscillates, turn down the Rate Gain to find a point where it is as high as it can be without oscillations (flick the rudder stick to try to induce oscillation). Then add some Heading Hold gain back in. If you can't add enough HH gain back in without oscillations occurring, then reduce the Rate Gain a bit and see if that helps. In general, HH gain does the most work for you, so you really want that gain to be strong. Too much HH gain will generally cause very low frequency swings of large amplitude.

You may find that if you had to turn down the Rate gain a lot, then raising the Relative Damping Gain a bit to e.g. 150% may help stabilize the tail. Too much will cause high-frequency oscillation. Too little will generally cause low-frequency oscillation.

The Heading Hold Range should be kept relatively small – no larger than necessary to make the tail hold firm in all the desired maneuvers. Large settings here will likely cause correspondingly large tail “bounce” when running large tail loads, high collective, or low head RPMs i.e. when the tail can't really keep up with the Deg./Sec. that you are commanding.

Be careful when setting up a Rotation Rate that you do not set it higher than the heli can actually yaw, under the conditions you expect to see. You should experiment briefly with higher numbers, and ensure that you see quicker rotation, just to be sure you are below the maximum it can do. This will reduce the likelihood of tail bounce.

Feed-Forward gain is not normally needed. It is there to accommodate unusual situations.

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