AUW = All up weight
BEC = Battery Eliminating Circuit
C = Capacity or charge current
1C = Charge the pack at 1x it's capacity (3000mAh at 3.0 amps, 2400mAh at 2.4amps)
C/10 = Charge at 1/10th the capacity (3000mAh at 300mAh, 2400 mAh at 240mAhs). Don't trickle charge LiPo packs!!!!!
CA = Cyanoacrylate
CCPM = Cyclic Collective Pitch Mixing [90 = servos are 90 degrees from each other, 120 servos are 120 degrees from each other]
CF or C/F = Carbon fiber.
CP = Collective pitch (piccolo with CP upgrade) or Piccolo Pro, ECO-8
CRP = Carbon fibre Reinforced Plastic
ECO = Economical Helicopter (per Ikarus’s ECO-8 manual) always thought it was Electrical Helicopter
ESC = Electronic Speed Controller (the bit at the heli end that controls the speed of your motors)
Fast Charge = Charging above 1C
FET = Field Effect Transistor
FF = Forward flight
FFF =Fast Forward Flight
FP = Fixed Pitch (standard piccolo setup)
GE = Ground effect turbulence experienced near the ground due to the air displacement of the main rotor blades. Rule of Thumb is usually ½ the diameter of the Rotor blades. Piccolo has 20” rotor Diameter, so GE = 10” about. So lets say 12” / 1 foot to be safe. ECO-8 has 42” Rotor so GE is approximately 21” or 2 feet to be safe.
GF or G/F = Glass fibre
GRP = Glassfibre Reinforced Plastic
IR = Internal Resistance
IGE = In Ground Effect
LHS = Local Hobby Shop / Store
Lio = Lithium based battery cell. Lio-Polymers, Lio-Ion are examples
MS = The company that makes the Hornet
OGE = Out of Ground Effect
Out of balance battery-pack is when some of the cells in the pack still had some charge left in them while others have no charge remaining.
PICCOLO = Permanently Induced Credit Card Over Load - Oops!
Peak charge = Charge at 1C and Slow or Trick after pack peaks.
ROG = Rise Off Ground, as in a rolling take off.
Rx = Receiver Interrupts signals from the transmitter and tells everything mounted on the helis what to do when.
Servo = Little box with arms that moves the swash-plate and things based on Transmitter signals and plugs into the receiver
SP = Swash Plate
Slow Charge = C/10
Trickle Charge = A trickle charge is less than C/10 and is meant for continuous charging for standby devices such as cordless phones
Tx = Transmitter (as in your radio control transmitter)
WBR = Wreck Beyond Repair.
WOT = Wide Open Throttle
Xtal = The frequency crystals for the Receiver
