first time out in the field with my raptor

[computacaremark]

all was going well, training undercarrige fitted as first time with the real thing, been training with flight sim. but wind was a little to heavy and ended up with this at the end......

back to the work bench and sim i think

[Randall]

Damm !! Not good but these things happen i did it when i first started to learn and im just about to get back into it after a few years off and im sure i am going to do it again :-( still does not look all that bad could be worse

[4ndyt]

Looking at your picture it seems you have the undercarriage on the wrong way round, the legs normally curve to the front of the heli, some people prefer it on the way you have it, but just thought I would mention it.

Regards

Andy

[chipbury]

Don't let it get you down - i did that plenty times when i was starting out. Have you thought of having any flying lessons? The cost of a one hour lesson is around the cost of a set of blades so can work out cheaper in the long run .

[Randall]

Hmmmm i would not mind some flying lessons ! is there any one local to me that does it (farnborough) would like to learn things correctly still fairly basic at it can hover about ok but want to learn more, fine with fixed wing can fly fixed wing fully 3D and prop hang a plane 2 foot of the deck but cant prop hang a heli correct

[Sesame]

sorry to see that randall. keep at it. unfortunately the crashing ispart of the hobby. luckily I don't mind the heli building, its building them damn planes I can't stand.

[Randall]

its not me that crashed !!! lol i agree heli building is great you can really enjoy the engineering of it all but plane building does my head in if i bend one i just throw it away and go buy another artf lol

[Sesame]

oops Sorry, silly me lol

[kevinh]

my crash last year before and after shots

www.kevinhawksbee.co.uk

we had the technology to rebuild and carry on



dont let it get you down, says me who stacked his TREX 450 yesterday after its tail got caught in the grass and flip it over requiring a new tail boom and supports and vertical fin, new blade holders and head button.

[Sesame]

my knight 3D after its 12th flight. The new Knight is flying luverly at the moment

[Randall]

Ouch that was one hell of a smack Sesame !!

[Sesame]

yup sure was, all ive salvaged from that is a bunch of bolts a nearly unscathed knight head and tail gearbox 2 servos and,, nope that it really

wrote off a 611 gyro (still got the servo but its a dedicated one) all the servos were 9255's the two that survived had new cases and leads.
the hyper was just running in nicely, crankcase broken, hatori 522 about 2" shorter than it started out, and not enough left of the knight to bother to try and repair.

but im still here trying to get to grips with this hobby

[Randall]

How on earth did you manage that much damage ? where you practicing freefalling onto tarmac again ?

[Sesame]

nope simple FFF and got disorientated, I was the opposite side of our field doing a fast pass as I had done countless times, these 50's really move when you want em too, about 20-30foot up I thought the blade disc was towards me I straightened it up unfortunately I think it was away from me so when I straightened it it actually flipped upsidown heading into the deck, I tried to rescue it got it the right way up but too late it hit bottom of nose and skids first and there you have the damage.

The bits that really do P**S me off are the loss of the 611 and the hyper 50. which ive never lost in a crash before.

I suppose the moral is keep to hotdogging and leave the gentle circuits alone LOL

[Ashley Davis]

some people just know how to crash 'properly'.....very well done, gets the gold medal for crashing