Originally Posted by Cougar429

Now I'm confused, as you said it was disabled and you had the servos plugged directly into the receiver. In that case, if you want the swash to work right you will have to select the correct CCPM swash.

Once you have the system reconnected, then I would assume you flip the radio to AIPLANE mode. That takes all the heli mixing out.

Originally Posted by Cougar429

As I mentioned, for Futaba the 450 class uses the SR-3 swash selection. From there you will need to do a bit more programming in the right sequence to get everything moving correctly.

At this point set all your channel ATV's to 100%. You can tailor them later to have your servos move the correct amount, ie. fine tuning so the swash ends up even top and bottom.

In the DIRECTION menu for each channel you need to set up which way they move. Ch 1, 2, 4 and 5 are NORMAL, while 3 and 6 are REVERSED.

NOTE: For some reason Futaba needs the throttle channel set to REV for an ESC to work correctly.

In the SWASH submenu you select the direction each of the 3 swash functions will move. The amount is up to you, but the direction is important. If the wrong way, just hold the + or - button down to go through 0 to the other side.

The first is AILERON, which will be a negative value. Mine is -40%.

Second is ELEVATOR, which is set to a positive value. Mine is also +40%.

Last is Pitch. Again this is POSITIVE. I have mine set to +50%.

This should get your swash moving the right way. From there you will need to work on throttle and pitch curves, which can be a bit of fun. Tweaking these usually takes me as long as the built to get the way I want.

Hope that helps.

Originally Posted by Cougar429

You have the wrong swash selected. There were types that used a separate collective servo to control rotor pitch. Plugged into the same channel, just the mixing was different.

That is why I said you will have to do some experimenting. Unfortunately I've never used your mentor system, so cannot figure out how it would mimic CCPM mixing on it's own with non-CCPM signal inputs from you.

However, from what I'm reading it sounds like the flymentor is NOT doing any mixing at this point, as you cannot get the correct swash movement at the heli without selecting it in the Tx.

For the 450 CCPM I select SWASH SR-3 in my Futaba radios. If you need to know the rest of the programming and mixing, PM me and I'll boot them off to you as a starting point.

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Originally Posted by xviper

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