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[Vt64d]

Just stopping in to say hi. I am new to the flitetest models after a 10 year break from RC planes. Safe to say, things have really changed!

My entry back into the hobby is a Tiny Tutor build with a Radiomaster Boxer.

My Tiny Tutor build is set up as 5 channel with no dihedral and servos on each wing for flaperons. Initially I was a bit dismayed at how it flew but the real magic happened with edgeTX. The adverse yaw got taken care of with a rudder mix and the drastic pitch changes with power got smoothed out with some elevator and throttle mixing.

Initially, the flaps function of the flaperons didn’t really work at all, as I would lose roll control once they were deployed. What worked surprisingly well was doing a rudder mix with full rudder to aileron mixing with the flap switch selected down. It keeps everything intuitive so you’re still flying with the right stick but allows the plane to slow down nicely and have great directional and roll control.

 

[AIRFORGE]

Welcome back to the chaotic fun!

 

[Jo's squadron]

Welcome back!

 

[Mr NCT]

Just stopping in to say hi. I am new to the flitetest models after a 10 year break from RC planes. Safe to say, things have really changed!

Welcome! Foam board planes are much less painful to crash.

 

[Houndpup Rc]

Just stopping in to say hi. I am new to the flitetest models after a 10 year break from RC planes. Safe to say, things have really changed!

My entry back into the hobby is a Tiny Tutor build with a Radiomaster Boxer.

My Tiny Tutor build is set up as 5 channel with no dihedral and servos on each wing for flaperons. Initially I was a bit dismayed at how it flew but the real magic happened with edgeTX. The adverse yaw got taken care of with a rudder mix and the drastic pitch changes with power got smoothed out with some elevator and throttle mixing.

Initially, the flaps function of the flaperons didn’t really work at all, as I would lose roll control once they were deployed. What worked surprisingly well was doing a rudder mix with full rudder to aileron mixing with the flap switch selected down. It keeps everything intuitive so you’re still flying with the right stick but allows the plane to slow down nicely and have great directional and roll control.

Welcome back! Glad you got it working!

 

[Michael9865]

Welcome

 

[Bricks]

Welcome back......Setting up flaperons...... set them up on a slider instead of a switch much more control that way.

 

[Foamforce]

Initially, the flaps function of the flaperons didn’t really work at all, as I would lose roll control once they were deployed. What worked surprisingly well was doing a rudder mix with full rudder to aileron mixing with the flap switch selected down. It keeps everything intuitive so you’re still flying with the right stick but allows the plane to slow down nicely and have great directional and roll control.

Could you describe your mix here? Do you mean that you have a 100% rudder mix coming from your ailerons so that your rudder moves at the same time? Why does that help with the flap roll? Or do you just mean it gives you more overall control?

I’ve played with flaperons a few times but I’ve never liked it that much. I think the trim is different when the flaps are down, so as soon as I deploy flaps I get wildly out of trim. I think you can set up EdgeTX so that you can have different trim settings per flap setting, possibly via flight modes. So then you could trim it out in normal flight, then deploy flaps and trim it out separately in that mode. I haven’t tried it yet though. Has anybody else done that?

PS, welcome back to get hobby and to the forum!

 

[Foamforce]

Welp, I answered my own question. It turns out that flite modes are specifically build to set different trims for different conditions, so it's super easy. So first you activate flite modes 2 (mid) and 3 (full flap) and set those to whatever switch you were previously using the the flap mix. Then on those mixes, instead of assigning a switch, assign them to those flite modes. Now your flaps will work as before, but you can set the trim on your aileron independently in each flap setting, so you can trim out the flaperons for level flight. You can also use the elevator trim the same way instead of having to have a separate mix for that. I'm going to have to give this all a shot, but it seems pretty slick.

Flight Modes | EdgeTX User Manual

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