6 more flights today,,, on one charge.. Gotta love those Lithium Ion batteries. [8D]

It was a good day for practice with a slight incoming crosswind that kept me on my toes and forced me to use the heck out of the rudder.

Problem.. The vibration finally showed up physically and popped hard enough so that the Central Hobbies header smacked the chin cowl and cracked it. No problem. I just got my Dremel back out and cut an oval slot in the chin cowl where it was hitting, that should solve the problem. Had to make the hole a little bigger than I wanted just to get all of the crack out but it looks fine and should serve a good purpose.

Just for the sake of discussion, I am a little concerned that my reverse avalance snaps MAY get downgraded somewhat. Although Im pretty confident they are legitimate snaps, they are a little bit slow and kindof remind me of what Lance and Don Ramsey were experiencing early on with the Symphony where the plane would stop autorotation just a little bit short. Im snapping to the right by the way....

I think the problem is that the plane slows down so well coming over the top on the reverse avalance its almost too slow at the bottom and doesnt have enough momentum to present a really crisp snap.
I tried 2 different things to try to fix it but not at the same time.
1. keeping a little throttle on through the snap, that helped a lot. This is probably all it will take to correct.
2. going to high rate elevator. That also worked especially well but I hate switching rates in the middle of a maneuver.

Any thoughts?