Did YOU fly today??

[wiseman]

had a nice session this morning with my GL450, took it further up and a bit further away from me, thought i did ok, came home in one pieace.

[milly0812]

Crashed my 450 and my Sukhoi!

Me too done my 450 with lovely new revolution FBL blades. Too low and too cocky.

[rmparry]

Ahh Don, Sorry to hear that buddy, i have almost come up a cropper a few time this last week by getting cocky, mind you I was doing Autos from about 200ft!!! Nose in dropping it like a ton of bricks and flairing last minute with a 180 pyro thrown in and well it wasnt pretty it bounced which is the main thing, so I tried it again and it was marginally better but we are getting there, Nose in hovering is pretty much nailed as well. Whats the damage Don

[r4nd0m]

had a few flights with my 500 and 700DFC HV today (impressive machine )... really like the 700 ... I actually think its time for the 600ESP to go ...

[milly0812]

Not too bad rick, two sets servo gears, dfc links and blades. Must meet soon for a fly sounds like ur having auto fun like me :-) why was I so scared of autos?? Oh I know it was the hundred quid my 600 just cost on a bad landing, damn u kontronik for not having a bail out lol

[aparkin]

had a good flight today 5 battery's with the 450 pro nothing new just same old same old but i was happy

on a different note i also bumped into discoferret down there with his velo 50 and what a joy it was to watch him fly i can only sport fly so watching him practices is flips hurricanes and inverted flight was a joy oh and i recorded it on my phone so here it is for you all to enjoy oh the part i say"nice" is where he flow in a straight line rolled to inverted carried on forward and rolled back again with out speeding up slowing down and in a straight line very sweet enjoy

[Delarado]

Had a fly tonight after work, finished at like 7pm just when it started to get too dark!

Took the align 700 up with two sets of packs, just to fly it around in normal mode and practice my banked turns.

Its getting embarrassing now that I can do half piro flips, aileron and elevator tic-tocs, stall turns upright and inverted and various other trickery, but I crash my 130x if you ask me to fly it round and round a 10 foot circle in front of me!

So I stuck two packs through it, low head speed, 7 minutes of figure of 8s with varying tightness. Long fast turns, and shorter more banked turns. Im still crap at banked turns. I either end up climbing really high in the turn or taking all my forward speed out...dont know what Im doing wrong Very annoying!

all the gear no idea eh?

[dszabo]

Dusted off the 600N today for a couple of flights and 4 flights on the Logo 500SE, great day.

[collective itch]

Got 4 flights on my Rex 500, 3 on my mini Titan. The last flight on the Titan ended a bit wrong! Tried landing nose in for the first time. Didn't got that well! Had a hoot throwing the 500 about though.

[collective itch]

Had a fly tonight after work, finished at like 7pm just when it started to get too dark!

Took the align 700 up with two sets of packs, just to fly it around in normal mode and practice my banked turns.

Its getting embarrassing now that I can do half piro flips, aileron and elevator tic-tocs, stall turns upright and inverted and various other trickery, but I crash my 130x if you ask me to fly it round and round a 10 foot circle in front of me!

So I stuck two packs through it, low head speed, 7 minutes of figure of 8s with varying tightness. Long fast turns, and shorter more banked turns. Im still crap at banked turns. I either end up climbing really high in the turn or taking all my forward speed out...dont know what Im doing wrong Very annoying!

all the gear no idea eh?

Try using more elevator to pull it through

[Delarado]

I feel like i need less actually...or more aileron. Not sure which!

[pepsisteve]

had my 1st out door flight today ever!! i have a mcpx and have only been flying for 2 weeks inside in the lounge, so much easier outside, gives me more time to think about what i am doing when it runs away! hopefully going to get out again tommorow and try and do some small circuits

[trillian]

I took my 'classic' Raptor 50 out for a few flights in the near perfect weather we had down here (Saturday). I had tried to fly it last weekend but in pre-flight checks I had discovered the elevator servo had a stripped gear, which may account for why it felt a bit strange when I flew it the time before. Anyway, it's all working very well now and behaving nicely.

[rmparry]

Don, Will do mate, I know what you mean about those Auto's, I started them from about 6ft then gradually got higher and higher, the hardest bit for me now is judging the distance to flair at to take the approach speed off before i almost crash into myself... 2 previous attempts i have had to take a step back, and the guys behind me in the pits are like ooooohh, and i'm like yeah i meant that... while I take a deep breath to calm myself down if you know what i mean. dont get me wrong i have aced some nice Auto's but you always try that extra something the next time. I have been very lucky with one slight boom strike and in fact the boom is still on my 550 now, it's a small indentation, it doesnt affect the flying so i'm happy to leave it for now.

[helimadness]

Had some awesome flights today. Managed about 20 consecrative piros inverted for the first time. Also did the first part of a inverted funnel. Hovering nose in tilted it up a bit, bit of ele and rudder and did one full circle surprisingly smooth then draped myself and flipped it back up and landed. Nice way to end the weekend flying,
Sim time is starting to pay off :-)