Ok dave there are four ways to counteract the rotor force: Manual , which is manually spinning up the tail rotor vs. rotor torque, mechanical, mech actuation to compensate for rotor torque, ccpm (collective cyclic pitch mixing) which is new and common on the electric helis...it is electronic compensation for rotor torque....the tail does not move in space until you tell it too..no matter what other inputs are made. the last is to have two counter rotating main rotors that way they cancel each other out in torque.
Some RC helis are called two motor or dual motor; in theses the speed of the tail motor compensates for rotor torque. The second kind (better in my opinion) is a variable pitch tail which is driven off the same motor that drives the main. All serious nitro helis use this method either by belt or by shaft drive. the tail rotor does its job by variable pitch instead of speeding up and down.
I just hooked up a playstation like controller to a simulator tonite for practice. It is intimidating to say the least...to try to maintain all the controls simultaneously . But it costs me nothing to crash the simulator...so its a great practice bed. If you like I will pm you links to a free sim and all you will need is a two joystick playstation like gamepad....this will get close to the real thing.
all your control inputs revolve around two joysticks so you have eight inputs up-down-left-right x2 on american transmitters the left joy is throttle (up-down) tail (left right), [right stick] up-forward, down backward, left roll left, right roll right. This same scenario works for planes as well.
Tommy, I could probably stand on a dry bowling ball if I could hold on to something with both hands. I don't have any joysticks, and if I got into something more to do with this &*#@%&++**^%$#$@ computer I would never get to bed, but thanks for the offer. Hope the simulator gives You enough experience that the chopper can survive the rest of the learning curve.
Ive got two helis and two planes. YES it does get expensive. I have a great simulator but it is never like the real thing because you take chances in the simulator that you would not do in real life. Ive had tons of fun with my toys and im sure you will too. Sounds like youve had a great Christmas!
Dave I already crashed again trying to fly it in my living room....dumm dumm dumm I should have waited for the wind to die down outside LOL!
Rander I had a great Christmas as well as the family...we were blessed simple as that. I really enjoyed having some time off let me tell you. What kind of Helo's you got? I am attempting a Walkera 22e....not the best to learn on so I am told. I have tried one dual rotor type but I was dead set on the real thing...so here I am buying parts LOL! I plan on moving into a honey bee king 2 if I can learn to control this beast. But I might go straight into nitro if I find the right deal.