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I took mine off tonight. I had a crash and broke my second push type ring connector thingy, and took the opportnity to remove the flybar weights, just to see what it was like.

What it was like was a different heli. Many people had said it makes it far more responsive, but while I understand basically what they meant, I never realised the full implications of it.

For me, it means that when the heli wobbles and you try to correct it, and nothing seems to happen, so you correct a bit more and find you've over corrected and you start the big pendulum back and forth of ever iincreasing over corrections.....well, that doesn't happen.

Now, I know that dealing with over corrections is part of learning to hover, and I must admit, the pendlum effect doesn't happen very often at all anymore. but removing. But removing the weights mean that the heli responded straight away to my correcting input. There's no temptation to over correct at all, so rather than delaing with the problem, it seemed that I removed the cause of it.

I'm not saying it never happened at all. It did, but once in a 12 minute hover was a vast improvement!

So, my question is (there's always a question, isn't there...)....what are the implications of removing the flybar weights for FFF. Is it something that you should replace before attempting FF or will the heli generally behave better now?
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