Mike Briant

Yes sorry Andrew, I misunderstood your first post, but you were both spot on so many thanks. ​Again you're right Chris, the flexibility of Taranis/Horus can be both a good and bad thing and something small can cause problems. I copy model setups too but in this case I fell into the trap of copying the error too. Thankfully though there's helpful chappies on here and youtube who know the answer to most questions. Someone, somewhere has had the same problem and found the answer. Thanks again guys.

Yes you're absolutely right Chris, I had. Duuuuuuuur me. Thanks to you and Andrew it's now working fine. Thanks chaps.

Aaaaaah that's the answer. Thanks Andrew. Turns out that for the elevator you need to put the dual rates on the mixer page and not the inputs page. Strange that all the other controls work fine when you put the rates on the input page.

Thanks Jason. Yes it was on full rates when I did the self test. Still doesn't seem to work for some reason. Hmmmmmmmm :/

Has anybody had problems with not being able to set up elevator rates? Aileron and rudder rates work fine but can't get elevator rates to work. Transmitter shows correct reaction on the graph but now change in the movement of the elevators.

Going back to the issue of not being able to use channels 5 and 6 for functions such as retracts or flaps etc, it seems that FrSky have provided a way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTsXnrDavi4&t=458s https://www.frsky-rc.com/download/view.php?sort=&down=341&file=Firmware-%20S6R

Thanks for your reply Denis. I should have mentioned that the surfaces react in the correct sense, i.e.: if I raise a wing that aileron goes up to correct the roll and if I lower the nose both elevons go up in order to correct the pitch, so it's got to be something to do with the position the elevons go to when I flick the switch (the default or resting positions) not being right for some reason. That's why I wonder if it's got something to do with the what attitude the model is at when the self test function is triggered........

Well I test flew my S6R the other day and all seemed to work well apart from the auto level function. When I switched that on the model promptly rolled inverted and headed for the ground and was not controllable until I switched the auto level off. I don't plan on using this function much but it's a bit worrying that turning it on caused the model to go out of control as if I accidentally flick it on when the model is at low level that would be the end of the model. Has anyone else had this or know why the model is reacting in this way? Is it something to do with the self test function? I've had the model perfectly level when doing the self test and as far as I know the Rx is set up correctly?

ah yes sorry, I misread your post the first time. Now I see what you meant. All becomes clear...lol Many thanks

Just found the answer on another forum. "I put the gain on a dial also and found out that center is 0 gain and either end is max." So when I was moving the slider from end to end the gain wasn't changing because both ends are max gain. Doh!

On the Taranis screen it's showing that the slider is moving it's full range of travel but I can't see any obvious change in the amount of correction of the control surfaces. So yes it's probable that the gain is not changing. I'll have to have a closer look at that channel.

A related and possibly stupid question. I've put the gain adjustment on the right slider. How can I tell whether high gains are with the slider at the top or bottom? When I move the model about it's not immediately obvious whether the surfaces are moving more or less depending on where I put the slider.

You were absolutely right Mike. So well done and thank you for that.

Ah yes of course. Sorry, I misunderstood. That makes sense. I'll look at that tomorrow. Thank you Mike.

The direction of compensation is correct. What's wrong is that it's correcting roll with pitch and pitch with roll lol. I think for now I'm going to test fly it with the Rx mounted sideways as it all works like that. My test model is expendable so fingers crossed and new pants on standby