Cyclic Control

This isn't too bad a thing to install but it too, in the long run, turned out to have a glitch or two.  When we installed the cyclic covers to the seat back and floor pan we found the pilots side cyclic wouldn't go far enough to the rear because the pilots side mount for the tube is welded on to the frame too far aft.  It would hit the seat back if we tried to install it to specs as per the building manuals. 

What we had to do is slot the pilots side mounting bracket as far forward as we dared  and then shift the center point of the swing forward enough to allow 52 degrees over all setting or we would run out of aft cyclic. That's a no no on this ship since translated at the main rotor end your only working with 10 degrees so you need all you can get to obtain this final goal.  The cyclic grips end up coming very close to the instrument panel in the full forward right swing as does the passengers side cyclic grips in a forward left position and may possibly need to be shortened to prevent this from happening.  Remember to take into account one day you may be wearing gloves (adding to the size of your hands) while flying this thing so add a little extra room if you can.

Another shock you may run into is that when you get your cyclic shafts back form the chroming process they wont be the same diameter they were when you fitted them to the clevis's.  This too we had to compromise once again and wrap Teflon tape on the end to take up the slop in the clevis.  My guess is this won't be the last time we have to do it either.   It added to the top because we had to sand out the bushing in the grips to make them fit together again so go figure lol. 

We couldn't get the full travel using the boots RotorWay supplies with the kit. 

When you moved the cyclic to its limits in the four corners it popped the boots from the panel so we custom made boots from vinyl. Truthfully though, whether or not we had trouble we wouldn't have installed the rubber boots anyway, they're ugly lol. Later that little jiggle we had in the cyclic shaft drove me nuts so I put a bit of blade glue in them. That solved the problem. We are however hoping we never have to remove the shaft from the clevis, it wont be pretty lol.

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