Marius' learning to fly - "video diary"

[coolgabsi]

beautiful looking bird! that a canomod canopy ?

 

[Tony]

Marius, I have a few suggestions. Try tightening your rudder stick and coming our a few hours on your throttle stick making it more free. It seems that when you are trying your tick tock's that you are pulling on the rudder stick. You may want to add some gain to the rudder as well. But as always, it's looking good. You are a better pilot than I am lol.

 

[heli-maniac]

Re: Marius' learning to fly - "video diary"

good flying

thats not a bad looking canopy
what did it run and were you getting them from if ya dont mind me asking

 

[Adam]

Your getting really good man keep it up enjoying these videos.

 

[stokke]

beautiful looking bird! that a canomod canopy ?

good flying

thats not a bad looking canopy
what did it run and were you getting them from if ya dont mind me asking

Thanks guys!

The brand is called MOK, not a Canomod.
Canomod doesn't really have many to choose from on the V2 platform
I got it at flying-hobby.com.
One canopy set me back 12 bucks.

Marius, I have a few suggestions. Try tightening your rudder stick and coming our a few hours on your throttle stick making it more free. It seems that when you are trying your tick tock's that you are pulling on the rudder stick. You may want to add some gain to the rudder as well. But as always, it's looking good. You are a better pilot than I am lol.

I believe it may just be me needing more practice. Because when attempting the tic tocs I worry a great deal about falling down, and also planning how to exit if things go wrong. What you're seeing there is far from as composed as it should be; it's just me frantic trying to do something I really don't know how to do

But your suggestions are noted, should I continue to experience the same problem after some more practice. I'd like to mention I can do tic tocs just fine in the sim, but of course the sim bird is a lot more agile than my real bird.

Regarding the gain on my tail, I feel I've set it as high as it'll go - still have some half percentages to test out though.

Thanks

Your getting really good man keep it up enjoying these videos.

Thanks, Adam

 

[Tony]

Cool deal. I just noticed the tail blowing out a little and thought it would help.

 

[Adam]

Thanks for the website for the canopy. How do they fit pretty good?

 

[stokke]

Thanks for the website for the canopy. How do they fit pretty good?

The one I've got now fits OK. I had to shave off a few mm just in front of the landing gear struts. But I had to do that on the original one as well. LOL. Also, I find that neither the original, nor the new one is 100% level to the frame - they're a bit crooked. It doesn't really bother me that much, I think maybe I'll try to correct it at a later time.

 

[Adam]

Tony had to do the same i am just at a lost of words cause 12 bucks hell its worth it to have an spare. My little crash i had really weakened this canopy lol.

 

[Tony]

They are not made to crash lol. They are made to look good and let the air slip over them easier.

 

[stokke]

I was out yesterday practicing inverted, and I see my tail does pop out a bit. So I've take Tony's advice and tightened my rudder stick. I think it helped somewhat, but guess I still just need more practice.

Beat my record today (longest lasting invert), got it on tape too
It suddenly starts raining, so I aborted further flight and rush to get home at the end. LOL

http://youtu.be/IFDC7Yk0k6c

 

[Adam]

Just pure awesome man. Man your are doing awesome next thing you know you will be in a competition. Keep it up and cant wait to see the next one

 

[Tony]

Looking great Marius.

 

[breeze400]

Very nice flying Marius! You are learning at a fast pace. I hope I do has well when I get mine back in the air.

 

[Lee]

Well done Marius. Your last invert was def the best. Much better collective management in that on. The first few were classic over doing the neg pitch. Its very common as you really want to make sure the hell stays up Try to follow the hell with collective as itl rotates to inverted. Positive/level, Mid/vertical, Negative/inverted at the same speed. Also try nice big loops where you slowly hold it longer in the inverted part.
Good job so far

 

[stokke]

Just pure awesome man. Man your are doing awesome next thing you know you will be in a competition. Keep it up and cant wait to see the next one

Looking great Marius.

Very nice flying Marius! You are learning at a fast pace. I hope I do has well when I get mine back in the air.

Thanks guys!

Well done Marius. Your last invert was def the best. Much better collective management in that on. The first few were classic over doing the neg pitch. Its very common as you really want to make sure the hell stays up Try to follow the hell with collective as itl rotates to inverted. Positive/level, Mid/vertical, Negative/inverted at the same speed. Also try nice big loops where you slowly hold it longer in the inverted part.
Good job so far

Thanks, Lee. I still haven't done any loops, as I'm kind of afraid of doing one But I guess I'll just have to get it over with someday now.

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I was out just now, draining my three packs. I see when I really concentrate, I'm able to hold the tail better when going inverted. I still need more practice though, and feel it's a bit frustrating that I'm doing it better in the Sim, than in real life.

It's also getting a bit chilly here now, so my thumbs slowly loose the "feel" for the sticks. But I have ordered some accessories that hopefully will solve this problem

 

[Lee]

I learnt to loop a long time before a learnt to flip and hover. Its way easier in my opinion. Just do high wingovers from one side to the other, getting steeper and steeper until you just pull back a little more and go over the top.

 

[stokke]

Did some loops today
No vid though, but will try to get it next time.

 

[Lee]

I told you its easy

 

[Adam]

very nice man you can really make a person jealous keep it up