I've been a kick butt pilot for at least the last 6 months... well... at least on the sim I've been a kick butt pilot.. recently, I tightened up the sack and took the sim to real life... today... I put a lot of the sim into practice...

today, first pack.,... I was doing stationary back flips...second pack, I was doing loops...3rd pack was a combo or stall turns, banked turns.. loops, rolls, and flips...I even paused it in mod back flip to an inverted hover for a good 10-15 seconds...

Below are a couple of phoenix recording of todays post crash nose in "re"-orientation! For fun I then tried nose in on a larger bird and it surprising how much difference there is. I'm glad I always try things on the B400 model before thinking I can do it in real life! And even then I crash.


B400 Nose In Training 15/02/2009


L500 Nose In Training

On a related note I...

I flew three packs today, flying fast and high, all great fun. Pack 4 and 5 I had said I was going to practise nose in hovering and was doing great for half of pack 4 then had a near miss. I too quickly tried to get back to nose in without letting my nerves calm and pretty quickly binned it. Usual suspects need changing, feathering shaft and main shaft as well as boom and boom support. The only other thing bust up is the blade grips and I put this down to the fact I was flying with CF blades (tried...

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has it been 10 months since I posted in here... WOW... time sure does fly when you're.... well... flying

Since my last post in here. I have left the BH450 behind... well.. I crashed the hell out of it almost totalling it.. it's back together now and if anyone wants to buy it, let me know and I'll make you a good deal on it. I now fly a Gaui Hurricane 550... and I mean FLY it... I hovered around and hovered around... all on a soccer field... I could fly the crap out of a heli on...