Did YOU fly today??

[p4ddy]

No flying for 7 months now & I've decided to take more 'time out' than previously planned. So as of now I have temporarily quit the hobby. I'll probably sim now & then but I wont be flying again for a considerable amount of time. I have too much to get done & no money either & some personal stuff needs taken care of. I will 100% be back but in the meantime i'm outa here. I need to try & quit the forum too or else i'll end up buying parts & flying again lol. So have fun guys keep enjoying my thread & see you in a while....(when you all realise flybars are best & ditch your Vbars etc ) See ya

[discoferret]

No flying for 7 months now & I've decided to take more 'time out' than previously planned. So as of now I have temporarily quit the hobby. I'll probably sim now & then but I wont be flying again for a considerable amount of time. I have too much to get done & no money either & some personal stuff needs taken care of. I will 100% be back but in the meantime i'm outa here. I need to try & quit the forum too or else i'll end up buying parts & flying again lol. So have fun guys keep enjoying my thread & see you in a while....(when you all realise flybars are best & ditch your Vbars etc ) See ya

Do what you need to do mate.

[milly0812]

Did YOU fly today??

Do what you need to do mate.

Yeah get them bleedin motorbikes out of your system lol

[trexamanic]

had a great time even it was only hovering my 450 dfc

[Shauny]

So I will never get to see your flybarred Logo fly Paddy? Gutted, seen a few of your vids but wanted to see it in the flesh.

All the best with your planned projects.

[r4nd0m]

had a superb day at MKMAA today - flew the 550 and the 700 and actually almost caught a sun burn, which usually is a bit difficult if you know me but the picture may say more damn I got tanned today ... works better than the chocolate milk top ups I usually try

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AND I enjoyed flying the planes, first a Wot 4 XL for 20 minutes after the ground jumped at my Sbach and another one I cant recall more agile but still liked it ... so it was a really good day - bring on the weekend !!!!

[Goshawk]

Flew today inverted from left to right with and inverted climb out, it's hard when you flick it inverted cos my reaction is to push back but once moving its ok

[MartinW]

Had a cracking day today. Had a test fly of my 250DFC that's been grounded since last September due to sheer laziness. It was a bit gusty for that really so just tarted about a bit getting the feel for it again. Bit later someone at the club (mainly a plank club) was interested in seeing the 450(FB) so I put that up. Was really getting the swing of it. I'm only sport flying but I was zipping up and down just nicely and never had any moments I didn't feel completely in control.

Then, no I idea why it popped into my head but I suddenly thought that I'd done a loop many, many times on the sim, so why shouldn't it work for real. Got up a lot of height, some speed, held me breath and just yanked back on the stick. Sure enough much to the amazement of everyone watching and not to mention me, a perfect loop. I did have to land not long after that though as I was somewhat shaking following that

After I landed the others were kind of open mouthed as it was the first time they had seen any of the "heli guys" do anything other than hover and break things. I was somewhat chuffed!

And then by 7pm all the wind was gone and so I flew the hell out of my 250. What a blast that is

So all in all, a good day!

I did have such a mishap with my plank you wouldn't believe it. I lost my orientation, thought I'd sussed it so pulled up only to have the plane dive, so from a 50/50 guess I'd guessed wrong. Plank disappeared out of site and I hit throttle hold to prevent any damage*. No idea how but next thing was it popped back up from under the horizon and I franticly stuck the motor back on and regained control. Honestly thought I'd be taking a bag of balsa home with me, but managed not to!!!!

*Of course on a plank, hitting throttle hold won't prevent anything, but it's an instinctive thing for me to do

[franky975]

I had many problem with my newly built Elyq v50c. Today when i turned up at the field at the first flight i held my breath....................then after many problem everything worked as i expexted. Fine. Some more tweak with the settings then i done my first multiple piro's. I done before one at a time but now can hover nose in so felt comfortable to do 6-8 turns in eighter directions. This and the fact the Elyq sorted (fingers crossed) made me day to be great day!

[danch]

Re: Did YOU fly today??

Nope, spent a couple of hours putting my new to me Goblin 500 together & setting up the Vortex, now ready for the maiden

Time to put thr vortex on the 700 also

[chucky21022010]

Just came home to test the 500 running vbar gov on castle esc. I think the heli responds to pitch quicker than the original castle gov and it flies smoother. It flips on a dime, the only downside is I lost my bank switching as I am using a standard receiver. Anyways, at least I like the isdle on bailout mode.

[Weirdfish]

$ batteries through my 130X late just before lunchtime. A little windy, constantly fighting it but had loads of fun and only broke a rear tail fin, so a good day was had

[PorscheBoy]

Beautiful day if a little breezy, but put 2 packs through my 550e DFC at lunch time. Lucky enough where I work (Pirbright nr Guildford) have this huge set of fields that are flyable from any compass direction, and I can fly when I want

Oh well back in the office now......

[pgkevet]

After not flying the weekend (friend turned up unannounced saturday to help planting and I could hardly say no to free help or just abandon them and fly :-) ) then issues with the 700N rx worryig me about whther it was rx or tx yesterday..

Anyhoo managed 3 tanks on the 600 this evening.. feeling really rusty at it too. I had planned to fly all afternoon but cut and loaded 2 cartfuls of huge logs this am and crashed out knackered after lunch..

Tomorrow looks good and only thin branches to cut and load rather than the big rings of today..some of those were 30Kg+ I was trying to heave into the cart.

No wind and the 600 was rock solid..just going through basic stuff to reinforce it: upright and inverted circuits, flips, rolls and some immelmann's... mine are to pull into a steep climb, half roll at the top while vertical then flip over on the spot while it sits there to come back down the same track: easy enough and a change from a piro 180 or 540 etc.

[discoferret]

yeah just got back from 3 flights with the goblin trying to get my inverted backwards circuits really tight. but on my second flight I landed then heard some people clapping turned round and saw 2 guys coming into the field. first thing they asked how much does it cost? alarm bells started to ring and I though my heli and gear were about to be nicked but turns out they were alright. Did shit me up a bit that's why i don't like flying by myself.