Hoyt Park,Thursday 4/14/16

I tried to do some loops but was having trouble telling if the heli was flat and it was freaking me out!  I kept aborting and doing a banked right turn or stall turn. Lol

Ming flying his Mikado 480, before he crashed it doing an inverted nose in turn. 

FPV racers practicing for the race at SEFSD on Saturday. 

My Goblin 380 with no canopy waiting for the next flight. 

Mikado Vcontrol Radio

I've been flying with my new Vcontrol radio for my 380 everyday after work so far this week. The ease of making tuning adjustments is awesome!  I've been playing around with the head style, agility, and gain looking for the feel I want. 

I plan to get another Vbar Neo so that I'll be able to fly my 450 and 550 on my Vcontrol also :)

Foam plane repairs

So. I finally got some foam safe ca glue. I ended up with 2 types. One requires a catalyst the other does not. 

I bought the catalyst which I needed for one type of ca, but ended up using the one which didn't require it, as it was easier to apply. Oh well. Maybe I'll try the other glue some other time. 

1st SEFSD session of 2016

I flew at my club for the 1st time this year, on 4/3/16, as my friend wanted to try the drone race track and I wanted to use my membership here. I've mostly been flying at Hoyt St park, as it's closer to home. 

Trying out my new Blade 230s!

My badass Goblin 380!

My friend got a pic of the 380 in a hover :)

Gone bananas!

So. Every place I buy RC stuff from had a sale over Easter weekend. 10% off your entire order!

First I got a micro electric ducted fan jet!  I've been having a blast flying these micro planes lately, and this is the 3rd one I've bought this month!  I like how relatively easy they are to fly and usually don't sustain much damage when you crash. :)

Next up was a small order for some batteries for the edf plane and some parts to fix my 250 yet again. 

Then a coupon showed up which I could use for a training heli I had my eye on. This bird includes self leveling and a rescue button!  It's also a 230 size model with plastic parts which should be cheap to replace when I crash. 

I thought that would be all, but then the site selling the new radio I've been wanting for the past 6 months emailed me yet another coupon!  I grabbed this radio also!  It includes telemetry and voice alerts, but the best feature is being able to change settings on my flight controller right from the radio!  Awesome!

Man. This was an expensive weekend!  Once I receive all my new stuff, I'll need to tone down the spending. For at least until my birthday anyway!  My next kit will probably be a big foam plane or a big heli :)

Everything has shipped, but tracking hasn't updated yet, so I don't know which package will arrive first. 

Broke the P51 :(

I stopped by Hoyt on my way to the track to get some flights on the P51, as I wanted to try some loops and rolls now that I was used to flying it. I was able to do both!  I lost orientation a little bit though as I rolled in the middle of a loop by accident, and crashed. This crash happened to break the motor mount in the foam in the nose of the plane :(

With no hot glue or foam safe ca to repair the mount, I called it a day. At least I can loop and roll this thing :)

Top of the plane removed so that I can repair the motor mount. 

Crashed 250! Again!

Well I crashed the 250 on its 1st flight after rebuilding it after the last time I crashed it.  It turns out the gyro was compensating the wrong way?!?  I'm not even sure how it changed. 

The spindle shaft screw broke again and a dfc link. Luckily I didn't have my new blades on, as I was able to repair my old ones.  

Hopefully I can repair it quickly and try again. This time with plastic blades. Lol. 

Update 3/29/16

I looked over the heli and so far the damaged parts are:

Blades

Feathering shaft

Lost a head damper

Both DFC ball links

Cyclic servo horn

Bent landing skid tube