Alex Evans
Member
Well good people, I did it....
2 x 5 minutes hover exercise, some 30 minutes apart to calm my nerves.
It is clear, hovering takes more battery juice, there is no airspeed to produce lift, both battery 6S packs went down to 43% capacity left in them.
I am happy that I had a training skids on, I did have a few "Landings" that without them it will be a crash... Upon close examination of the machine after the 2nd time:
1) I had chips on both main blade tips
2) The tail skid had a clear cut in it and one of the tail blades showed a small chip. Is it possible that my travel setup goes too far?
I have no doubt that the Simulator sessions I had at home help...
On my first attempt, I had 25% Expo set on Ail, Ele and Rud, 2nd hover I increased thos to 30%, it seems still not enough. The "Hover" was not at all in one place but wonder around in front of me, in most cases the tail was my way, in some cases I was about 3 feet high...
The machine was drifiting left and forward, not sure if it was the light wind or my Beast v5 can be better set. I did NOT attempt any trim on the Tx to correct it but rather operated the sticks.
Will be glad to hear any comments.
Thanks again
2 x 5 minutes hover exercise, some 30 minutes apart to calm my nerves.
It is clear, hovering takes more battery juice, there is no airspeed to produce lift, both battery 6S packs went down to 43% capacity left in them.
I am happy that I had a training skids on, I did have a few "Landings" that without them it will be a crash... Upon close examination of the machine after the 2nd time:
1) I had chips on both main blade tips
2) The tail skid had a clear cut in it and one of the tail blades showed a small chip. Is it possible that my travel setup goes too far?
I have no doubt that the Simulator sessions I had at home help...
On my first attempt, I had 25% Expo set on Ail, Ele and Rud, 2nd hover I increased thos to 30%, it seems still not enough. The "Hover" was not at all in one place but wonder around in front of me, in most cases the tail was my way, in some cases I was about 3 feet high...
The machine was drifiting left and forward, not sure if it was the light wind or my Beast v5 can be better set. I did NOT attempt any trim on the Tx to correct it but rather operated the sticks.
Will be glad to hear any comments.
Thanks again