Slobberdog
Well-Known Member
Well I have been suffering with a locked joint in my back for the last few days, but today the weather was so nice I had to get out and fly, so me and the family went down the flying field, they went for a quick walk while I had a couple of batteries,
First flight was with the 450, I now love how this bird feels these days, all that said the thermals running over the crest of the hill at the end of our field was hard to get used to, well I flew for 7 mins back and forth
but half way through, well that's where I had my heart in my mouth, I hit the thermal and shot off up in the air and forward a few feet, well maybe 100 ft away from me, well it was a little far for my eyes to see perfectly and I lost where my tail was,
needless to so I started to worry, was tilting it back and forth trying to work out which way I was going and turning the tail, and all the time stuck on the thermal so it kept its altitude well, well after about 30 seconds I got the direction I needed to bring it back towards me, phew, but the thwomp thwomp thwomp noise in my ears was my heart beat, good thing was I did not panic, MUCH.
Came down on the 7 mins and had 3.7v per cell left, which I think is wicked, with the 5 batteries I have that's like 35 mins of flight with the same time in between that over an hour of adrenaline,
Second flight was with the 130xx, I am having such a blast with this now, don't have so much worry about flying this one, so was doing the same sort of flying as with the 450 but a bit more aggressive and in idle up, did try to do a small tic tok but did not quite have the head speed high enough to do it, a five min flight from that battery gave me 3.8v per cell, so the six batts for the 130xx and the five for the 450 I could fly for an hour non stop nearly, don't know if I can handle that amount of that amount of excitement.
Well I have two heli's back from the field intact so I constitute that as a good flying day,
And I know I have to get the video situation sorted.
First flight was with the 450, I now love how this bird feels these days, all that said the thermals running over the crest of the hill at the end of our field was hard to get used to, well I flew for 7 mins back and forth
but half way through, well that's where I had my heart in my mouth, I hit the thermal and shot off up in the air and forward a few feet, well maybe 100 ft away from me, well it was a little far for my eyes to see perfectly and I lost where my tail was,
needless to so I started to worry, was tilting it back and forth trying to work out which way I was going and turning the tail, and all the time stuck on the thermal so it kept its altitude well, well after about 30 seconds I got the direction I needed to bring it back towards me, phew, but the thwomp thwomp thwomp noise in my ears was my heart beat, good thing was I did not panic, MUCH.
Came down on the 7 mins and had 3.7v per cell left, which I think is wicked, with the 5 batteries I have that's like 35 mins of flight with the same time in between that over an hour of adrenaline,
Second flight was with the 130xx, I am having such a blast with this now, don't have so much worry about flying this one, so was doing the same sort of flying as with the 450 but a bit more aggressive and in idle up, did try to do a small tic tok but did not quite have the head speed high enough to do it, a five min flight from that battery gave me 3.8v per cell, so the six batts for the 130xx and the five for the 450 I could fly for an hour non stop nearly, don't know if I can handle that amount of that amount of excitement.
Well I have two heli's back from the field intact so I constitute that as a good flying day,
And I know I have to get the video situation sorted.
