Struggling with single rotor basics V2
03-09-2014, 07:12 PM
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That's good to hear, Scott!
The new version of Phoenix is out (5) & I downloaded it last night. Had some trouble until I redid my Tx & it seems to work just fine now. Whole bunch of new helis, quads & airplanes. I'm liking it so far.
I got the new Blade 450x inverted for a few seconds! Talk about nose in confusion... !
Chuck
The new version of Phoenix is out (5) & I downloaded it last night. Had some trouble until I redid my Tx & it seems to work just fine now. Whole bunch of new helis, quads & airplanes. I'm liking it so far.
I got the new Blade 450x inverted for a few seconds! Talk about nose in confusion... !
Chuck
03-11-2014, 03:59 PM
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Yet more snow
Scott hold onto that knee as I'll be getting between 4 & 8 inches of white stuff again tonight & it will be heading your way next!
At least the last two days were warm & the piles diminished mightily! I'll have some place to shovel it!
If it wasn't so windy today I could have tossed a heli around outside. MAYBE spring is coming...
Chuck
At least the last two days were warm & the piles diminished mightily! I'll have some place to shovel it!
If it wasn't so windy today I could have tossed a heli around outside. MAYBE spring is coming...
Chuck
03-20-2014, 12:57 PM
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Chuck,
We got a foot last Wednesday. Not fun at all. It took me two hours with a snow blower to clear.
It snowed a little over night last night, too. Just a light dusting, though.
Scott
We got a foot last Wednesday. Not fun at all. It took me two hours with a snow blower to clear.
It snowed a little over night last night, too. Just a light dusting, though.Scott
03-24-2014, 07:37 PM
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Flight time
A couple of days ago it was actually not snowing, not too cold & not too windy, so I took the little quad outside for a spin. It was a hand full in the breeze but the "magic" flip button was fun. I could almost fool myself into thinking I did the flip!
Took the mCP X out as well & it was fun trying to keep it in the air as the breezes turned into a wind while I was out there!
More snow tonight I hear....
Chuck
Took the mCP X out as well & it was fun trying to keep it in the air as the breezes turned into a wind while I was out there!
More snow tonight I hear....
Chuck
04-01-2014, 05:10 PM
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A couple of days ago it was actually not snowing, not too cold & not too windy, so I took the little quad outside for a spin. It was a hand full in the breeze but the "magic" flip button was fun. I could almost fool myself into thinking I did the flip!
More snow tonight I hear....
More snow tonight I hear....
Hopefully everyone else is all dug out by now.
Scott- How's the knee doing?
phD- We never fear when you are near. Or maybe we fear more, I can never remember.
Busy @ work (had a couple of presentations and a demo) and @ home (working on the new MythTV, and RoboSub).
Purchased a Graupner mx-20, 12 channel radio with voice telementary for work, so now I can learn German while I fly! I'm looking over the manual now.
Here's a technique that I came across for coiling up your servo wires
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfWPp5jyIU
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04-03-2014, 01:24 PM
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The knee is doing much better, but I've got a problem on my left side from compensating. I need to make yet another appointment. I'll be fine, though! 
Scott
I'll be fine, though! Scott
04-13-2014, 01:19 PM
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My own piece of paradise
If all goes as planned in the next couple of days, this Florida piece of sand will be mine! 
I took out the hi wing trainer today & did pretty well, though rusty, until the third pack when the winds got so strong I had trouble turning it back into the wind at the end of the run!
Chuck
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Steam shovel not included!
I took out the hi wing trainer today & did pretty well, though rusty, until the third pack when the winds got so strong I had trouble turning it back into the wind at the end of the run!
Chuck
P.S.
Steam shovel not included!
04-15-2014, 09:15 PM
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Right on guys seems you killed the crickets with the excavator... seems a bit of over kill. Flaming Ivan the terrible did the Chris Angel
04-28-2014, 04:42 PM
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See, everyone is learning!
Yep, that looks like FL! You should have held out for the steam shovel!
Scott - Walk this way..... walk this way....
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Favorite quote in my "Englisch" manual:
Free assignment of switches to switched functions by simply switching the desired switch
I've been watching the Experimental Airlines channel on youTube. Ed has a lot of good techniques for building foamy planes. He even has his own true profile wing (The Armin wing).
-Dave
Yep, that looks like FL! You should have held out for the steam shovel!
Scott - Walk this way..... walk this way....
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Favorite quote in my "Englisch" manual:
Free assignment of switches to switched functions by simply switching the desired switch
I've been watching the Experimental Airlines channel on youTube. Ed has a lot of good techniques for building foamy planes. He even has his own true profile wing (The Armin wing).
-Dave
04-28-2014, 08:03 PM
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05-14-2014, 05:12 PM
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That would be one.
Scott- It is sad, but I'm always around, just with less and less to say. After RoboSub, I need to get back to flying/building/crashing... repeat...
Pump some life back in... Pump it up... pump...pump... pump it up...
Come on, let me hear you sing!
Another good quote from the Graupner manual for the "FAIL-SAFE setting"
You utilize the safety potential of this option by the safety potential by programming as least the motor throttle position for combustion models to be idle and the motor function for electrically powered models to stop for Fail-Safe case. Then, in the event of a failure, the model cannot become independent as easily and cause property damage or even person injury.
I hate it when my model becomes independent.
But it is quite the computer radio. You can do almost anything with it. Any switch can have any function. You want to have your glider motor on a 3-pos switch and control the brake/spoilers with the left stick? No problem. You want to have a timed sequence for opening rectract doors, retracting landing gear, and closing the doors? No problem.
-Dave
Scott- It is sad, but I'm always around, just with less and less to say. After RoboSub, I need to get back to flying/building/crashing... repeat...
Pump some life back in... Pump it up... pump...pump... pump it up...
Come on, let me hear you sing!
Another good quote from the Graupner manual for the "FAIL-SAFE setting"
You utilize the safety potential of this option by the safety potential by programming as least the motor throttle position for combustion models to be idle and the motor function for electrically powered models to stop for Fail-Safe case. Then, in the event of a failure, the model cannot become independent as easily and cause property damage or even person injury.
I hate it when my model becomes independent.
But it is quite the computer radio. You can do almost anything with it. Any switch can have any function. You want to have your glider motor on a 3-pos switch and control the brake/spoilers with the left stick? No problem. You want to have a timed sequence for opening rectract doors, retracting landing gear, and closing the doors? No problem.
-Dave