Sunday, October 14, 2012
All flying again!
I finally have all my CP helis working again and am out at the field. I repaired the Trex 450 and Blade CP after crashing both of them a month ago.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
More head speed!
At the Silent Electric Flyers Field bumping up my head speed again. I had it so low that I could fly for 10 minutes. I don't like concentrating for that long anyway, so I'm bumping up my head speed until I'm flying in the 5-6 minute range with a head speed if at least 2200 rpm or end my flight with about 20% battery left. 
Helifreak Fun Fly
This morning I headed up to the Palomar RC Flyers field to check out this years Helifreak Fun Fly. This is the biggest helicopter fun fly in the San Diego area, with some of the best pro pilots in the nation attending. The flying I saw was unbelievable! I hope that some day I can do one of those maneuvers. :)
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Video of my 550 Flying at the Silent Electric Flyers of San Diego (SEFSD) Field
Eric took a vid of me practicing side in hovers and slow forward flight today at the SEFSD field on his new iPhone 5! Thanks Eric!
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Repair and upgrade parts for my 450!
I crashed my 450 a few weeks ago due to the tail belt slipping causing me to lose control. So I decided to change the tail drive to a torque tube. Let the rebuild begin. 
5 Blade heli! Updated!
Another guy showed up with a 5 blade head scale heli! Cool!
UPDATE!
Added a vid of the heli that I shot with my iPhone 4s.
Another great day for flying!
At the field again. This time trying some different throttle profiles to get certain head speed, which I will measure using my optical tach. Hmm. A little hard to measure the head speed with the sky tach. But my iPhone app says I'm at about 2200 rpm at 80% throttle.
Going back to normal throttle curve as a few times I almost shut the motor off while I was trying to descend. Also I don't think I got a full charge on my batteries for some reason, as my lvc turned on with about 30 seconds left on my timer. Or the batts have a large voltage drop under load, since when I checked them later, the still had 65% capacity left?
Going back to normal throttle curve as a few times I almost shut the motor off while I was trying to descend. Also I don't think I got a full charge on my batteries for some reason, as my lvc turned on with about 30 seconds left on my timer. Or the batts have a large voltage drop under load, since when I checked them later, the still had 65% capacity left?
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