soloboss
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Joined: 9/17/2006
From: Fort Wayne,
IN, USA
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That's not an ugly hover. You're getting your money's worth out of that garage. If you hovered in just one spot, you could convert a closet to fly in. But you have a whole garage (except for the part with the beat up pick up). Like they say, "If you got it, use it".
I've been through a dramatic day today. I put things back to stock. Then I mounted the 9.6 volt CP battery and tried to fly. Ohhh, misery. No matter what direction the heli lifted off, that's the direction that it went. No control made any difference. No control of the heli. Broke another tail rotor. On inspection, "Everything" looked fine. Long story short - it's hard to find a broken rotor head core by looking at it. One clip broke and the other clip was holding it together. Flight dynamics are bizarre at best.
I learned from Ndoren that going to the flight field with a fully built up drive unit saves serious time in the event of a break. I had no idea how correct he was. Getting that little shear pin back into the head is a migraine looking for a head.
BUT with the new head in place I took the stock weight F40 back to the patio for a test. I'm set for slower response to work with the stock weight heli and the wind is out of the west at 10 mph. The house is west of the patio, so the wind blows over the house and makes a gusty down draft and swirl. But it flew rather well. In fact I got a decent hover despite the turbulence. One time I nearly lost it and I made a very low sweeping pass sideways across the patio and one skid tripped on a chunk of dog poop (my cocker spaniel hates wet grass) and that ended that session. But after cleaning up the patio and trying again, I'm in the breeze and flying this little weirdo. While the super skids are off, I may install lightning holes (drill lightening holes) and see if I can loose some of that 30 grams. I don't want to loose strength, but I want less mass.
So I'm back on the trail to happy flying. I'm sure that a flying buddy would be worth his weight in gold (perhaps at last year's price) for tips and reassurance. Out here alone it's just me 'n the copter. And we don't always play together well.
But this time I didn't hit my antenna.
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Soloboss
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RE: Struggling with Single Rotor basics - 
go figure.
