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I finally plucked up the courage yesterday to attempt my first back flips, loops and rolls for real. Inverted flight has been a psychological barrier for me up to now. I've been able to fly inverted fairly confidently on the sim for several months and recently been practicing more inverted flying on the sim, to the point where flips, rolls, loops, inverted hovering etc feel quite natural, although still struggling a bit with inverted orientation in both hover and certainly in FF.
So anyway I decided it was time to try some of these moves at the field, so off I went with my trusty mCPX and almost brand new 180 CFX.
First up to plate was the sacrificial mCPX and it looked pretty frightened by the glint in my eye. So up she went, a couple of quick warm up loops and then an attempted tail in backflip at 2 mistakes altitude. It kind of worked and I can honestly say it went upside down for a split second and then came back upright again, but my god it was ugly! Despite all my hours of meticulous sim practice my collective management and timing was **** poor and it was more luck than skill that I didn't crash it. Second attempt was going slightly better until I put in too much negative collective and the tail blew out sending it spinning into the ground. My first crash right there after nearly 6 months of trying
But no damage in the long grass and so straight back on the horse. After finally getting my crash duck out of the way I relaxed a bit and the next few attempts actually went quite well and started to resemble reasonably controlled backflips. In the end I managed about 20 or so decent backflips with a couple more harmless crashes in between. I also managed to throw in some bigger loops, which I found easier than stationary flips, and finally a couple of FF rolls, which went much better than I expected.
So then I got out my shiny new 180 CFX and was undecided whether or not to attempt flipping it as I haven't even had much chance to fly it upright yet. So far only a handful of flights hovering around the garden and 1 flight at the field a few days earlier before it started raining. So anyway I thought I'd get it in the air and go with the flow. So I ran a couple of packs through it in my comfort zone and actually found it much easier to fly than all my other cp micros. The piro compensation makes such a huge difference, I was quite astounded. So on the third pack I thought what the hell and just back flipped it. Unlike the mCPX it just sat there effortlessly and flipped upright again with just a slight flick of negative collective. Just like the sim! So I carried on flipping it again and again and just couldn't get over how much easier it was. Then on the very last pack I got a bit carried away and attempted a barrel roll a bit too close to the ground and bit the dust! Was worth it though and the tall grass limited the damage to a stripped main gear so will be back for more tomorrow.
Went out this morning with my mCPX again to prove I could still do it and it turns out yes I can!
So anyway I decided it was time to try some of these moves at the field, so off I went with my trusty mCPX and almost brand new 180 CFX.
First up to plate was the sacrificial mCPX and it looked pretty frightened by the glint in my eye. So up she went, a couple of quick warm up loops and then an attempted tail in backflip at 2 mistakes altitude. It kind of worked and I can honestly say it went upside down for a split second and then came back upright again, but my god it was ugly! Despite all my hours of meticulous sim practice my collective management and timing was **** poor and it was more luck than skill that I didn't crash it. Second attempt was going slightly better until I put in too much negative collective and the tail blew out sending it spinning into the ground. My first crash right there after nearly 6 months of trying
But no damage in the long grass and so straight back on the horse. After finally getting my crash duck out of the way I relaxed a bit and the next few attempts actually went quite well and started to resemble reasonably controlled backflips. In the end I managed about 20 or so decent backflips with a couple more harmless crashes in between. I also managed to throw in some bigger loops, which I found easier than stationary flips, and finally a couple of FF rolls, which went much better than I expected.So then I got out my shiny new 180 CFX and was undecided whether or not to attempt flipping it as I haven't even had much chance to fly it upright yet. So far only a handful of flights hovering around the garden and 1 flight at the field a few days earlier before it started raining. So anyway I thought I'd get it in the air and go with the flow. So I ran a couple of packs through it in my comfort zone and actually found it much easier to fly than all my other cp micros. The piro compensation makes such a huge difference, I was quite astounded. So on the third pack I thought what the hell and just back flipped it. Unlike the mCPX it just sat there effortlessly and flipped upright again with just a slight flick of negative collective. Just like the sim! So I carried on flipping it again and again and just couldn't get over how much easier it was. Then on the very last pack I got a bit carried away and attempted a barrel roll a bit too close to the ground and bit the dust! Was worth it though and the tall grass limited the damage to a stripped main gear so will be back for more tomorrow.
Went out this morning with my mCPX again to prove I could still do it and it turns out yes I can!
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