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Just wanted to share the fact that Ade very kindly and trustingly allowed me to fly the Compass Odin today
The chaps at the club have all had a good look over it and seen it in action over the last couple of weeks,i dont know how much of this models specs will be in the final version but to me it seems pretty sorted.The electric cooling fan was a bit of a headscratcher at first but its actually resulted from some clever thinking,the heli is more compact and the engine is relieved of the extra load a standard fan adds.The result of this is that the model from an observers point of view appears to have better power,and darts around quite nicely
When Ade offered me a fly i couldnt resist,the sky was crap and grey and i always get very nervous with other peoples models,this one even more so.But it instantly felt `just right`,i have always felt pretty comfortable with Ades setup,i only flew it around and did some loops,rolls,inverted circuits and inverted loops and a few Tic Tocs but the model behaved very well and was a complete joy to fly,the power was pretty incredible and i couldnt do tic tocs without it climbing as i did them.It does feel very light in the air but was also very precise,it was a windy day and the 50`s were feeling it but the Odin was not affected one bit
All in all i think this little baby is going to make a big impact in the 90 sector of the hobby and it bloody well deserves it.
Thanks Ade,that was by far the highlight of the flying day
The chaps at the club have all had a good look over it and seen it in action over the last couple of weeks,i dont know how much of this models specs will be in the final version but to me it seems pretty sorted.The electric cooling fan was a bit of a headscratcher at first but its actually resulted from some clever thinking,the heli is more compact and the engine is relieved of the extra load a standard fan adds.The result of this is that the model from an observers point of view appears to have better power,and darts around quite nicely
When Ade offered me a fly i couldnt resist,the sky was crap and grey and i always get very nervous with other peoples models,this one even more so.But it instantly felt `just right`,i have always felt pretty comfortable with Ades setup,i only flew it around and did some loops,rolls,inverted circuits and inverted loops and a few Tic Tocs but the model behaved very well and was a complete joy to fly,the power was pretty incredible and i couldnt do tic tocs without it climbing as i did them.It does feel very light in the air but was also very precise,it was a windy day and the 50`s were feeling it but the Odin was not affected one bit
All in all i think this little baby is going to make a big impact in the 90 sector of the hobby and it bloody well deserves it.
Thanks Ade,that was by far the highlight of the flying day
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