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Gday all you fellow gyro nuts. My name is Mick I am from Darwin (MTK is my local strip). Pretty new to the gyro world, I"ve only got 50hrs to my name.I was trained by Max Tate (MadMax) . I"m trying to sort out my prerotator for short take off, so I can do a bit of fishing from my gyro. In 15 mins I can fly to a nice saltwater creek thats full of Barra, that takes me about an hour to drive too, short takeoff will increase my Fishing opportunitiesAt the moment I have the standard starter motor that fits on a Gerry Goodwin rotorhead, I can spin up to 100rpm static or about 150rpm if I keep it engaged on the start of my take off run, I"m thinking about buying a Wunderlich flexishaft Prerotator from calumetair (Tom Milton).Can anybody tell me what Rrpm can be achieved with a Wunderlich, I"m running an EA-81 with a Rotax E-Box, 26" Goodwin Blades.Attached if it works is a pix of my Gyro.
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Birdy is the one to answer your question best. He has the RAF pre rotator and a similiar gyro to yours except with a 912 Rotax and I reckon he says about 40 paces for him BUT with a bit of in experience in your case of short takeoffs and not knowing what height you have to clear, I would work on approx 100 yards to be on the safe side. Rotor flapping is not a great thing and it can take a while to get the hang of how many revs it takes before you can use full noise.Anyway, welcome to the forum Mick!!
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Mick,Tom has been crock lattely i got 3 sets ordered and i got no idea when they will be avalable, when he gets on his feet again i will chase it up again.it is hard to say the rrpm you will get but it will be more than your electric one.
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