Anyone been flying today.???

[Tim Procter]

Adam Jelly came round at 11am and we had loads of fun although it was freezing cold, Stayed until after 3.00pm..

Must keep practicing if I intend to reach any heights.

Plenty of posts made today and not a sign of anyone flying.

Has it been too cold in your area today.


Must add that Adam has bought a brand new Raptor 90-3D and almost got it finished.

It looked ace when I saw it today.

[liambaker996]

Adam Jelly came round at 11am and we had loads of fun although it was freezing cold, Stayed until after 3.00pm..

Must keep practicing if I intend to reach any heights.

Plenty of posts made today and not a sign of anyone flying.

Has it been too cold in your area today.


Must add that Adam has bought a brand new Raptor 90-3D and almost got it finished.

It looked ace when I saw it today.

i av been flying today even thow it is freezeing the nicad in the raptor 30 i have did not like the weather to much so i only got two flights out of it hiopefully going again tommorow thow
liam

[kevinh]

Test flew my Trex 450 in the garden after a crash this week, loads off wobbles from the tail and head and i did bend the boom slightly replaced that, but just doing that little hover it was bloody freezing, hands was frozen solid that was only 10 mins

[Mike W]

Was -1 here ... no bleeeding way was i flying lol.. Put my stuff on charge , just incase theres a break in the weather morrow .. Cant really do alot with the helis at the minute as have numb hands and pins and needles .... Side effects of the drugs am on I think ...

[synergyn9]

Tim, have you got anti-freeze for blood, sure it never got above freezing today!

Will be out tomorrow though, whatever, have to get my weekly fix

[SparkleBee]

Yep, ive been flying today. Took my mini titan to a large field and flew it without the training gear on. Was soooo cool to get it moving around and up to a good height. Only flew 2 batteries through it, but my hands were so cold by then that i couldnt really feel the transmitter sticks anyway...

[Tim Procter]

Tim, have you got anti-freeze for blood, sure it never got above freezing today!

Same here Nick, The ground and hedges were white over with frost and yes it was bloody freezing but then again I am keen.

Will be out tomorrow though, whatever, have to get my weekly fix

That's the spirit mate..

[jiberjaber]

I went up to the field with Heliphil, Garry, Steve, Andy and Jazzy Colin. Was joined by Adrian and irish Steve and a new chap much later on (in fact we were thinking about leaving just as they turned up.)

So we had Knight, N9, 2x Vibe 50's 1x600 and 1x700 Raptor 30... plus a load of raptors and Trex 600's that I think Irish Steve keeps buying LOL .

I had 1.5 flights, very cold, didnt get above 0 all day, it was -3 when I left for the field. Arrived around 11AM, left about 13:30.

Knight fared well today, new battery up front has solved the weight issue I had, pitch reduced to +/- 10 degrees with 7 degrees cyclic had be doing some tic tocs and easily maintaing height rather than bogging and blowing out the tail.

All good apart from the starter coupler taking out one of my blades.

I took the glider, but didnt bother getting it out the car LOL.

4 plane chaps turned up, but none of them flew.

Today we discovered the joy of engine mufflers as hand warmers hehe

[AJ Jelly]

Yet another good day flying. Even with it been -2 when we got to the field. Got some good flights in today, even almost had a close encounter of the ground kind when the power lead came off in flight. Big thanks to Tim for fitting some better connectors on for me

Looking forward to getting the Raptor 90 finished off and ready for flight this year

[jamiem]

went out at half 10, car showed -5 best it got was +1 all day, but by about 3 it was back down to -1. i was up there til about half 3 as it got very overcast and made seeing the models horrible. Managed 3 flights on the knight, 2 on the 250 and 2 on the 500, great day

There was a group of about 5 of us up there, we are the "Harcore"!

[Sesame]

At the field from 9.00 till about 2.00.

blinkin cold, best way is to fly short flights then get a cuppa coffee to warm up.
some good flying was had though

[J3DI]

Had a little fly with the 700e - it's just so stable that the 600N feels like a 500 after flying it.

[tourerjim]

Garden flown 500ESP try to sort out tail wag got through 2 lipo's still could not solve tail wag, I've done everything can only be yhe fact that its shaft drive 'Blinking=Thing'

[cambs flyer]

I had five minutes out and thought "bugger that", it was well freezing!

[Tim Procter]

Garden flown 500ESP try to sort out tail wag got through 2 lipo's still could not solve tail wag, I've done everything can only be yhe fact that its shaft drive 'Blinking=Thing'

Have you tried running a 100% flat line on the throttle curves yet.

These 500's do like headspeed.