Two and a half years flying my Cinestar 8 and today marks the first damage done to it, and I got very lucky. Simple test flight in the backyard, flipped from Free to Ph and went one click too far and into Come Home, which isn't currently tuned on this copter. CH sent it straight up and into a tree at about 40 feet, I flipped out of CH got the power down but the branch flipped the copter and couldn't right it before hitting the ground. My yard is soft, currently really moist dirt, the CS landed on boom 3 and 4 snapping an APC prop and one boom. There was no gimbal on the copter! Whew! I've always said it was inevitable that it would happen. I've had ESCs die while flying, and other "land immediately scenarios" but no crashes. Glad I was baptized so inexpensively! I think I'm going to look into programming PH and CH onto different switches so that can't happen accidentally again.
Ouch.....that PH to CH is all too easy, isn't it? You might want to post on mikrokopter.de and see if there's an easy way of separating the controlling channels... Andy
I think you might be able to do it using a Mix on the transmitter. Need to go back and re-think that -- I've not done too many Mixes before. Andy.
Duane: There was a old thread concerning mixes that I remember from way back: http://forum.freeflysystems.com/index.php?threads/mode-switch-for-dx6i.160/#post-1436 My fumbling explanation of a mix is message #9. I've re-read what I wrote and I'm still not sure I'm certain that this will do what you need but maybe you're brain is better caffeinated than mine. Andy.
Daune ouch! when you mean "Come Home, which isn't currently tuned on this copter" the settings where wrong or test it?
The Ch settings have not been tuned at all. Plus, I was flying with no camera or gimbal so was way lighter than normal. When Ch got selected, the copter just rocketed up. I don't think I've ever seen it accelerate upwards that quickly ever.
Yeah....I tried CH on my flying test bed, an MK Hexa without payload, and I chickened out whether the copter shot upwards and came towards me at 50 mph (I think it was that -- it was in the GPX file). Andy