Acro Advance Menu Functions; Wing Types; Flaperon - FUTABA 7CAP Instruction Manual

ACRO ADVANCE MENU FUNCTIONS:

Aircraft wing types (ACRO):
There are 3 basic wing types in aircraft models:
Simple. Model uses one aileron servo (or multiple servos on a Y-harness into a single receiver channel) and has a tail.
This is the default setup and requires no specialized wing programming.
Twin Aileron Servos. Model uses 2 aileron servos and has a tail. see Twin Aileron Servos.
Tail-less model (flying wing). Model uses 2 wing servos working together to create both roll and pitch control.
see ELEVON.
Twin Aileron Servos (with a tail) (ACRO): Many current generation models use two aileron servos, plugged into two
separate receiver channels. (If your model is a flying wing without separate elevators, see ELEVON, p. 45.)
Benefits:
Ability to adjust each servo's center and end points for perfectly matched travel.
Redundancy, for example in case of a servo failure or mid-air collision.
Ease of assembly and more torque per surface by not requiring torque rods for a single servo to drive 2 surfaces.
Having more up aileron travel than down travel for straighter rolls ñ aileron differential. (see glossary for definition.)
Using the two ailerons not only as ailerons but also as flaps, in which case they are called flaperons.
Options:
5-channel receiver? Set up AIL-2 (see p. 43) in FLAPERON.

FLAPERON:

Uses CH6 for the second servo (see AIL-2 to use CH5 orCH7.)
Allows flap action as well as aileron action from the ailerons.
Provides FLAP- T RIM function to adjust the neutral point of the flaperons for level flight.
Also allows aileron di
Channel 6 = normal flaperons, 2 servos operate together as flaps;
Channel 5 or 7 = act like aileron differential did in prior radios; channel 6 is still FLAPS, and the 2 ailerons
never act together as flaps EXCEPT in the airbrake function.
NOTE: Only one of the two wing-type functions (FLAPERON , and ELEVON) can be used at a time. Both functions
cannot be activated simultaneously. To activate a different wing type, the first must be deactivated.
GOAL of EXAMPLE:
De-activate FLAPERON so that
ELEVON can be activated.
Where next?
fferential in its own programming.
STEPS:
Open the FLAPERON function.
De-activate the function.
Close function.
Set up ELEVON(see p. 45).
INPUTS:
42
for 1 second.
(If basic,
again.)
to FLAPERON.
to INH.