Preflight, Preflight, Preflight!!

I did a full preflight on my Pantera and took her out for a tank. The new Gyro settings are good. Tail doesn't kick out when I give full collective. She stil bogs but I'm running way rich so I don't expect much. Did some T patterns and started a little nose in. Still having issues with control. I'm always behind the model then overcontrol... good first flight regardless.

I had already looked at my 500 so I skipped pre-flight and took...

Today is cancelled due to high winds and heavy rain ..

Spent most of the morning re-working my charging case. Putting the Cellpro 10s in and figuring out where I want the Cellpro 4s and multi-chem charger. I've decided to only store chargers/adapters in the charge case and use a small plastic toolbox for batteries.

The plan today is to lube and inspect the heads of the pantea/rex 500, and do a general inspection of the rest, fixing anything I find. Tomorrow,...

I did about 20 minutes sim time today. Tail in and nose in T patterns. Still struggling to hover at the ends on the sim.

I received my Cellpro 10s/powersupply, my updated version of glow plug remote power connection, and the Align wand starter..WOOT! now I'm broke!! (after buying almost two complete pantera's for hanger queens...).

I did some adjustments on the Pantera. I had shimmed the carb throttle arm and adjusted the endpoints..etc....fired it up in the yard and...

I managed to get out flying Saturday and last night. The weather here hasn’t been cooperating that well…windy, rainy, and now cooler (low 50’s during the day and mid 30”s at night). What happened to that warmer weather we all had???

Saturday on the 3rd and 4th flight, my Compass 3D+ started having carburetor issue. Come to find out, it is loose…again! So I’ll have to look into modifying it (fixing) so it will never come loose again! Well, come loose when I would like it to,...

Yesterday I got around to fixing the throttle arm to get it parallel to servo arm. I ended up adding two thin washers underneath to get it to orient correctly. I had to re-setup my end point adjustments and link length. At 50% output on the throttle servo I'm now at the halfway point on the carb barrel. Per the YS documentation this is the hover throttle position.

Last night I realized I hadn't any stick time since Saturday. It was past bedtime but figured I'd get 15m in on the sim....