Did YOU fly today??

[dillwhacker]

Yes. Maidened the 250 FPV quad...totally mental
This is going to get some getting used to...

[paul 5ive-t]

I have just built my very first helicopter, a trex 450L dominator, 6s, gpro and had my first 2 flights yesterday after 2 month on sim, i was shaking like a leaf and no crashes, nearly had a slipup as it took me 1min30 to land on second battery and on recharge i was 150mah short of full capacity! awesome experience.

[Grumpy]

Congratulations Paul!

[Peteski]

I have just built my very first helicopter, a trex 450L dominator, 6s, gpro and had my first 2 flights yesterday after 2 month on sim, i was shaking like a leaf and no crashes, nearly had a slipup as it took me 1min30 to land on second battery and on recharge i was 150mah short of full capacity! awesome experience.

Fantastic, really looking forward to my maiden flights. Sounds like the sim really did it's job.

[paul 5ive-t]

Yes peteski, the AccuRC sim has realy done its job as i'd no idea how to fly helicopters and even the setup on it taught me the basics, when i flew for real tho i couldnt do anything but goodish hover, fwd, backward movement only, darenot try to even fly round, realy enjoyed tho but very nerve racking.

[Peteski]

I'm pretty sure that's how I will approach it too Paul. I can fly fairly aggressively on the sim after a month of practice, but I know in reality I would just hover to start with. Main thing is you didn't crash, so I believe that already puts you in a minority of first time CP flyers!

[paul 5ive-t]

Yeah cheers buddy, ha...very early days yet tho!

[collective itch]

sort of... went to put a couple of packs through my mini titan e325, took off ok, in idle up 1, switched to idle up 2 and not sure what happened but heli seemed to instantly go out of balance, tried to get it down, but it went in quite hard, snapped the head off, totalled my 10 flight old blades, and made a bit of a mess! only had ten flights on it since i rebuilt it following a crash! never had that happen on any of my helis before, so need to examine the wreckage!

[Mike Sanders]

That's a devil. Keep chin up.

[Nick_C]

Defo wont be ouside today,when are these Gail force winds gonna go!! Am getting withdrawal symptoms,will be flying indoors later though

[p4ddy]

4 Flights over lunch. Turned out to be a very nice session.

What a lovely & scenic looking flying field all the better looking with the snow

On the downside that Dominator looks so bloody pointy but very visible

[p4ddy]

oh no, i'm getting strong flying urges, oh well it's too dark now & the laptop with the sim is down atm until Laurence repairs it

[p4ddy]

Well after a stressfull moment in the garage with the bike I picked the logo up of the shelf & had a 5sec hover in the garden. I'm too rusty to attempt any longer and done a mini auto. First flight since the vbar set up.

[Mike Sanders]

Well done. A big event.

[p4ddy]

Well I just put my packs on charge and they're all a bit fooked, the newest has a cell down to 2v . Oh well my fault for leaving them as they were for 16 months & they're all a tad puffy. Ah what the heck the weathers ok tomorrow, the TX is on charge & i need a break from the bike stress so after work i'll be off to one of my fields for a few flights. God knows what will happen after that long away from the sticks.