Well it finally happened. The carb on my 3D+ came loose on the second flight, and went lean in flight which resulted in ruining the piston! So this time, I’ll order a new piston and ring, buy all new loctite [red and blue], and silicon gasket sealer. I will rebuild it and try it again, and if that doesn’t work…I’ll buy a new motor.

So far the parts ordered for the Thunder Tiger motor comes to $65.99 [piston, ring, connecting rod (just in case)]. I also ordered a piston, ring, and...

The start of the three day weekend…Saturday was a mixed weather day, cool and rainy in the morning, windy and warm early afternoon, cooler and calm early evening, then back to windy…35+ mph! I Managed to get out flying Sunday after church, and only one flight yesterday…too windy again!

I worked with Greg for a good portion of Sunday, hover practice. And we did make some progress after his training gear started failing! Greg bought this 5 legged, cone type training gear for learning...

Yesterday was a beautiful day for flying! I had two heli’s to test out and not a lot of time to do it in. I started with the Trex 700 first. Within 5, or so, minutes I blew up the Align motor. Prior to this flight, I had changed all the fuel tubing, moved the header tank lower and stuck it to the side of the main tank. I opened the needles to two turns out and started tuning the motor. Everything was going great, nice smoke trail, had some power, but still on the rich side. Then I decided to perform...

As of Friday, last week, my work hours changed, so now I can fly in the mornings! Took my Trex 700 and the Compass 3D+ out early in the morning Friday. I started with the Trex 700 to tweak the Align motor I installed. A few adjustments and it was off and flying! I was having some rich/lean problems and wasn't able to track it down. For the most part, the motor was on the rich side. So I started practicing some new maneuvers.

On the On the third flight, I noticed something odd. The...

It's a sunny but windy day in the carolina's. I got off work and decided to fly a few packs with the MCPX in the yard. Since it was windy I removed the verticle stab. 6 minutes for each pack. I found it fun to try and maintain position in the wind while working on slow piro trying to maintain altitude and position. With the wind it was even more of a challenge. I believe I'm up to 10 flights on this bird and am loving it. I did use some oil on the swash, grips, and anything that looked like it moved....