I didn't get to fly today, instead I got to stand around and take photos. First was really freaking early this morning out in the desert at a bike race and then I had a formal deal at the college. Man was I out of my pay grade there! Anyhow it was a long and interesting day and I took about 1200 photos. Yup tiring stuff. Oh and the wind was freaking crazy this afternoon!
Here are a couple photos I took today. The first if a photo looking at Socorro from the east and the second is one of the photos from the start of the "sport" class racers.
The weather continues confound us here in Seattle. More snow today with high winds and the occasional thunderstorm. I’m working on nose-in and am confined to the garage, which means the ground up approach with training gear. With the HBK2 grounded, waiting on the Rx, I started my nose-in with the Blade CP last weekend. I had 4 very successful nose-in flights until the Blade committed suicide with a severe radio glitch sending it into the ceiling. The Rx for the HBK2 arrived this week and I did my first nose-in attempt late this week. After the Blade CP, the HBK2 was a tad bit easier to handle.
Once I got comfortable with hovering, I set up two more RADD boxes to practice hovering between all three. One is directly behind the main box and the other is to the side. Today I was working on the forward /back hovers. I've still have a ways to go, but you can kind of see some deliberate moves between the two boxes. Next is the side to side hover, then a combation of the two moves. Here is a video of my progress so far. I got a little got excited at the end and overshot the landing. I'm standing just to the left of the camera. Sorry Chris, no commentary either
Thanks Mike. The gyro is LogicTech 2100t. The tail servo is an HS-81. The setup is very sensitive to airframe vibrations and tail setup didn't really start to shine until all the vibes were minimized.
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04-20-2008 05:33 PM
TJinGuy Elite Veteran Location: Socorro, NM - USA
Flew the Mini and almost crashed it. Flew the King and did crash it. Flew the Mini again and never felt good about it. Came home and had some caffine while fixing the King. Flew the King again with no problems
Gregor99 Great job with the nose in hovering and moving from box to box... I like your approach to learning the nose in. Hovering in one spot get very tedious at best but moving back and forth only improves your nose in skills...
Tom..... No "D" flying....
04-20-2008 08:59 PM
DougsRC Elite Veteran Location: MA
Very nice Gregor, Nose-in is a pretty big milestone in heli-world
04-20-2008 10:29 PM
tryan02 rrProfessor Location: Canton, Missouri
Freakin awesome Greggor I wont give you crap about the sim for at least the rest of the day. 3min of nose in flight not hover that was flight. great job I gotta get me a bootleg copy of that Phoenix.
I did fly after me and the wife going for a 90mi motorcycle ride Went to all three ball fields heli in hand not a chance on a sunny 72 degree day like today. So it was back to the sidewalk. And lets just say I stretched the sidewalk out a bit today.
And once again great job greggor this redhead is for you.
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I have Emoticons uploaded to my photobucket account and just click the link from photobucket and paste to the IMG tab in RR. Just like you would embed youtube vid you embed an image.
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Thanks for all the encouragement! Definitely a huge milestone for me. Lots of, um *cough* "prep" time was involved in this. The sweetest piece of this milestone was doing for the first time with the Blade CP last weekend. Kind of took back some of the dignity that thing stole from me last fall. It's been great to get finally get to try it with the HBK2. I feel like I finally move on to learn something else with my sim time. Most likely more work on my eights.
Tryan asked about order. Past the first three orientations, I think that really depends on the pilot. Circles are a way to get a taste of nose-in in small doses. I wanted to do some circles at in conjuction with this practice, but the weather wasn't cooperating. I came up with the RADD box idea because I felt like I wasn't pushing my comfort zone doing a steady hover.
Finally, here's my contribution to this thread today. I did lots more nose-in, this time side to side. I'm not quite as steady as I'd like to be, but I was definitely feeling more brave. Ran into another problem. Seems like I was always waiting on the charger. With only 1 Cellpro 4s and 3 packs, I've been cycling threw them faster than the Cellpro can keep up. Maybe its time to look at a second 4S or perhaps the 10s. Then get a get more packs.
