HITEC Eclipse 7 Pro User Manual

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elevator to keep it trimmed. This high-drag configuration

makes the landing approach steeper to help make safe

landings in small fields. This is an on-off function, not

proportional.

58. With landing mode on, it is possible to lose some

aileron effectiveness. Be sure to test the landing settings

at altitude before trying it on a landing approach.

You should spend some time fine-adjusting the elevator

travel so that there is minimal trim change when the

landing (Flt. Mode) switch is operated.

59. Press one of the Up

Down Edit buttons until

the LAND window appears,

as shown. The landing

mode is OFF unless the

Flt. Mode switch is fully forward.

60. The numeral 2 should be flashing. Now

press the Data +Increase key to change the percentage

shown. You may input the amount of offset for the

elevator at this time. This should be set from -7% to -

10%. Don’t use too much or it could crash your model.

61. Press the Cursor Right key one more time, and you

may now input the CH6 setting. The rates may vary consider-

ably

for different models, but for initial settings you

might try the flap rate around 50-55%. You may want

flaps to droop or rise, depending on the model type.

62. E->F Mixing: you may couple elevator to flaps for

tighter corners in the elevator-to-flap mixer. Get to the

E->F menu, then activate it by pressing the Clear key.

Press the Right Cursor key to get the percent symbol

to flash. Now you may input the percentage of mixing

with the Data +Increase key. Start out with 10-20%

and increase it until the corners in your loops are square

enough. If the flaps don’t drop when you pull up elevator,

reverse the sign in front of the mix percentage (change

the + to a - or vice versa).

63. Be sure to input a mixing

percentage for each

side of the elevator stick

motion.

64. Programmable mixers: now take advantage of your

system’s advanced custom programming capabilities.

You may use up to five programmable mixers (PMX1

through PMX5) to get rid of unwanted tendencies (for

example, rolling or tucking during knife-edge flight.

65. For tucking during knife-edge, you want to apply a

little up elevator when you are using full rudder to sustain

knife-edge. Thus, we want the master channel to be

rudder, and the slave to be elevator.

66. To program this mixing, first get to the PMX1 window.

Press one of the Edit Up/Down keys until you see

PMX1 displayed. Then press the Active/Inhibit (Clear)

key to activate it (a flashing ON or OFF will appear,

depending on the position of the CH. 7 switch, which

turns mixer #1 on and off).

67. Next, press the Cursor Right key twice to select the

master channel (MAS flashes on and off), then press the

Data +Increase key until the channel numeral 4 will be appear,

This time, hold the aileron stick to the right and press the -

Decrease

Data key until the number is the same as you chose for

the other side.

48. Aileron Dual Rate setting. You can use the dual

rate function to reduce the aileron and elevator travel in

flight by flipping switches. Dual rates are typically used to

reduce a model’s sensitivity.

49. Get to the D/R menu

by pressing one of the

Up Down Edit buttons

repeatedly until D/R

appears, as shown.

50. The aileron dual rate setting automatically affects

both ailerons if the flaperon function is active. To set

the aileron dual rate, move by pressing the

Right Cursor key until the Numeral 1 will be flashing (the arrow

depends on the position of the

Ail D/R switch above the right stick.) Now move the

aileron D/R switch up or down, noticing the position of

the arrow. You can set two dual rates, one for each

switch position. If you set them, be sure to note which

switch position turns them on.

51. By pressing the Data +Increase or -Decrease keys,

you can add or subtract from the numerical value displayed.

Note that you may pick a value anywhere from

0% to 125% (125% is larger than the normal amount, so

if you do this be careful not to exceed servo travel limits

and cause stalling or excess current drain). If you quickly

want to get back to the default 100%, press the Clear

key. We suggest using an initial value of 75%.

52. NOTE: If you set any of the dual rates to 0%, you will

have ZERO CONTROL AUTHORITY and LOSE CONTROL

OF YOUR AIRCRAFT when the switch is in that position.

DON’T DO IT!

53. Also note that the flight mode indicator NOR signal will

appear in the display

This tells you that you have set the dual rates

for the NOR mode, and if you activate other flight modes,

you can set dual rates for them as well.

54. Elevator dual rate setting:

press the Right Cursor

key one time to get the

numeral 2 to flash. Now set the

elevator dual rates in the

same way you set the

ailerons in the previous step.

55. Rudder dual rate setting: press the Right Cursor

key one time to get the numeral 4 to flash. Now set the rudder

dual rates in the same

way you set the ailerons and elevator in the previous

steps.

56. Note that you can have different dual rate values

in each of the different flight conditions. When

you activate flight conditions, be sure to set dual rates for

each one if you desire.

57. Landing setup. You can get an airbrake effect by

flipping a switch to raise or lower both flaperons and add

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