Slobberdog
Well-Known Member
Well got to the field this morning and set up, got the 130x out for my warm up flight, some of the plane guys were around with one in the air,
So sat the 130x on the ground powered her up and off we went, just messing around but about a minute in got it a bit confuddled somehow got it like nearly inverted about ten foot off the deck, but gave a bit of pos pitch and started to come down to Mother Earth, well got it back upright but could not quite get my orientation back, and was close to the ground, so gave it neg pitch yes you heard right neg pitch, somehow my thumbs and mind were out of sink, so in effect dumb thumbed it into the earth tail ish first,
Broken bits, landing gear, tail fin oh and a bent tail shaft, and that's it, only problem now is I can't get a microheli tail shaft in the UK, so I have had to customise my original tail grips to fit, for now until I can get hold of the shafts,
Repaired but have no skids, but test hovered and seems to be fine,
And the UP's
Flew two batteries through the 450 and that felt really spot on, even if I did have a lot of nerves after my knock with the 130x, it's surprising how much confidence a crash takes away, spent most of the batteries gently plodding along in controlled manner, and the other thing was, I was nervous about the planes in the air on the field at the same time as me, but he could see I was nervous and stayed away from me,
So sat the 130x on the ground powered her up and off we went, just messing around but about a minute in got it a bit confuddled somehow got it like nearly inverted about ten foot off the deck, but gave a bit of pos pitch and started to come down to Mother Earth, well got it back upright but could not quite get my orientation back, and was close to the ground, so gave it neg pitch yes you heard right neg pitch, somehow my thumbs and mind were out of sink, so in effect dumb thumbed it into the earth tail ish first,
Broken bits, landing gear, tail fin oh and a bent tail shaft, and that's it, only problem now is I can't get a microheli tail shaft in the UK, so I have had to customise my original tail grips to fit, for now until I can get hold of the shafts,
Repaired but have no skids, but test hovered and seems to be fine,
And the UP's
Flew two batteries through the 450 and that felt really spot on, even if I did have a lot of nerves after my knock with the 130x, it's surprising how much confidence a crash takes away, spent most of the batteries gently plodding along in controlled manner, and the other thing was, I was nervous about the planes in the air on the field at the same time as me, but he could see I was nervous and stayed away from me,
I thought I was reading the best excuse for getting a 150 lol.