Rob2160

I did my first night flight tonight..

Very enjoyable.. but I need to improve the lights on my heli for better orientation..

Anyone else fly at night?... looking for ideas/ suggestionsfor the lighting...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkqyK_JuZ8U[/youtube]

Rafael23cc

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There is a whole section dedicated to night flying in some of the online vendor pages I visit.

Here is one of them:
[link]http://www.heliproz.com/products.asp?dept=60[/link]

I'm going to assume that there is a video or picture embedded in your post, but I can't see it from the office computer. Will try to see it frommy home computer later.

Rafael

Rob2160

Thanks for the info!

Edit.. just updated the lights on mine.. it looks much better now.. My 14 year old said "Cool.. you pimped out your helicopter!"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32fRPuusNUY[/youtube]

johnbspringer

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I fly at night all the time, mostly because I work too much in the daytime.  I do not have any lights on my bird, I use the parking lot lights at work. I cannot go any higher than about 10 feet because the lights start to wash out my heli. Is it really night flying if I you are in a lighted parking lot?

Rob2160

I have done that also when doing a maiden flight on a heli after i finish building it at 2am. . . Quite restrictive but enough to let me trim and balance and track it enough so i can sleep contented. . Then give it a a true shakedown the following morning

Eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzUZc6ONojE

mustbfst

Yes I fly at night all the time I made my own night blades,and the whole heli is lit from leds from hobbyking green ones on the canopy, blue leds on the blades and down the tail boom and green leds on the vertical fin it is really quite awesome. My other heli is a trex 450 sa but now its flybarless with a 3g system and a hobbyking flybarless head havent flown her yet its getting too cold here so it will have to wait until I can fly inside