Everyone seeems to be talking about rates now.
What are you using and why?

I was planning to make this post for a few months now, but it always slip my mind. Glad you post this. I fly freestyle. Here are my rates. Everything else is default. I think it allows about 900 deg/sec.

I keep my expo up to mellow out center stick but allow fast enough rotation for rolls without elevation lost.


set roll_rc_rate = 135
set pitch_rc_rate = 135
set yaw_rc_rate = 110
set roll_expo = 40
set pitch_expo = 40
set yaw_expo = 30

set roll_srate = 80
set pitch_srate = 78
set yaw_srate = 75

Default rates, no expo, all tweaking done with super.


Gives me maxes of 1000 d/s, 900 d/s and 800 d/s on roll, pitch and yaw respectively.

I'm still using default rates because when I go out to the field I just want to fly rather then spending/wasting time mucking about with different settings, and the defaults seem to work OK for me, for now. I may look at trying some different ones at some point in the future when I feel I want to try out something different, so it's good to see what others are running.

I'm not sure if anyone saw it but JB and Alex Vanover were discussing rates in a video that was posted on the Rotor Riot channel a few days ago...

in the end its about feel conenctet, it depends also on the area. its usable to have the full range of the sticks, if you fly a very technical track were its alot more precision needed, it will be stupid to have 1000deg/s and only use e few milimeter, about 3% of stick mouvment. for technical track, the best pilots i now use about 180deg/s to 300deg/s. i cant feel conected with this rates, but the painfull but in the end usefull way would be; step by step down and up and a few lipos on every step.. this is my plan.

if the focus is to train exessive, same rates, same quads (settup) and same area is the best.
but if you can reach the feeling for beeing conected, with diffrent settup for diffrent areas, it will be the max of controll.

to mention about a stearing wheel of a car is how i understand rates, a small stearing wheel (much deg/s) makes it very nimble, a big stearing wheel (low deg/s) makes it precise.

I prefer a linear stick feel, so I only up my super rates on all 3 axis to .75 to get to 800 deg/s of rotation, leave everything else at default settings.

what isnt rates but also affect to the stickfeel, feedforward (what feedforward value do you use? ) which settup would you first adjust, rates or feedforward?

(07-Jun-2019, 03:02 AM)hugnosed_bat Wrote: what isnt rates but also affect to the stickfeel, feedforward (what feedforward value do you use? ) which settup would you first adjust, rates or feedforward?

I personally only touch rates, haven't messed around with feedforward yet.