Is fly-bar less rotor head better?

Posted by Jacko on October 30, 2014 at 4:18pm

Hi I was starting a build for trad helicopter.

I'v done multirotor and fixed wing with great success.

My question is simple... Starting from scratch should I go with a flybarless direct control rotor head or is a rotor head with a fly bar better for the pixhawk?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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  • Jacko October 30, 2014 at 8:54pm

    That's good to know. I'm looking for endurance, uplift and nice steady - boring platform for aerial work.

    Thanks Randy.

    • Thomas Stanley-Jones > Jacko June 17, 2015 at 10:11am

      @Jacko, did you find a platform that worked?  I'm wondering if these are still very DIY to get a Pixhawk flying it in Auto or if they have progressed to where multicopters are at (almost plug-n-play).

    • Jacko > Thomas Stanley-Jones June 17, 2015 at 5:07pm

      Yes, works great. Though LIDAR works best.

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    Randy October 30, 2014 at 5:51pm

    Yes, I agree with William, flybarless works much better.  When I switched from flybarred to flybarless there was an incredible improvement in how it flew.

    -Randy

  • Jacko October 30, 2014 at 4:41pm

    Thanks, that makes a lot of sense.

  • SKYBORNE October 30, 2014 at 4:32pm
    It can do both, but flybar less is better as Pixhawk is try to control the angle of the whole heli and doesn't know what the fly bar is doing.
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