Video progress report!

[Heli Yea!]

Id agree with Tom but the planar skew wheel is better than the air screw. Also have a look at the Mad Mushroom! I have the planar skew/ Mad mushroom they are awesome!

[Heli Yea!]

What about Walkera 2km (1.24mi)? I have pushed out a mile w/it stock if i change protocols to dsmx frequincy hoping, in theory, I could go farther.

[sutty]

Found the electrical fault. Saved us £50, which is the insurance excess. Will fix tomorrow in the light.

Woo hoo.

Cheers

Sutty

[sutty]

I'm at the limit of legal power in the UK. Plus, I'm not buying anything else on this now. It will be for another project, perhaps with completely different gear, as I would like to go further, but with something less dangerous, like a little plank, like Tom suggested.

Not sure on the regs for other frequencies, or what would happen if I bought it from the US for example, but for now it's good enough.

Cheers

Sutty

[copterboy]

Here's a quick vid from yesterday, of Jackflying the quad. I'd just installed the new motor, so it's in need of -re-calibrating the accelerometers. I must have tried 10 times but couldn't get the headlights to blink and confirm it was re-calibrated. So the quad isn't trimmed well at all, but you can see he is still having a go at correcting! Hope you enjoy

[Tomstoy2]

That was great! Make sure you post us a vid when you got it all trim out with him cruising around.

The vid reminded me that my son reports Jan 5th here, about 100 miles away or so.

My granddaughter is a fishing maniac, like her gandpa. She can't wait for me to teach her to fly fish.
My grandson is just going to dig flying, I hope. Just can't see any boy not fastenated by it.
Both my planes are stupid easy to fly in stabilized mode, so once in the air he can learn los real quickly.
Plus, he'll have my sim to practice on when I'm working.

Next year is going to be a great year!

[copterboy]

Will do Tom. I might just leave it untrimmed for a bit, so he will have to learn how to correct....muah-ha-hah!

[Heli Yea!]

So this first vid is showing switching modes ALT hold/Loiter/Stabilize as you can see no real changes. Then I went out for a fast fly and forgot to change the power transmission of my TX still had it at -5dBm oops. It invoked RTL and it returned prematurely. After it lands there is nothing to see.

[ame]http://youtu.be/oHKbr_gNoCU[/ame]

The next vid shows how well it loiters now. I don't have any stabilization on the cam so any motion you can see. There is a breeze at a constant enough to wave a flag but not hold it out. Id say 10 mile per hourish wind. Then I fly FFF most of the pack. I tilt the cam up so I can see forward while going full ELE and hauling ass! It was lots of fun till the end Where I hit the magic point of the cam/darkness to where I can't see shit so I hit RTL and realized I had no clue where I was.

[ame]http://youtu.be/V_Hgy-0wF-w[/ame]

[Heli Yea!]

Attention. This is your Ardu-Captain speaking. Please fasten your seat-belts we are due for take-off. Please be informed whatever you do, DO NOT PRESS THE RED BUTTON! Thank you for flying Ardu-Airlines. 'Click' ... ... Oh crap I hit the red button.... nothing to see after 2:00 sorry...

[ame]http://youtu.be/ioCuodqpgQo[/ame]

[sutty]

lol, and you chose to try that in the dark!

wtf.

[Heli Yea!]

Well TBH I actually tried it my first pack when it was getting dark. I forgot the record button though so I did a quick flight to record hence the short FT.

[copterboy]

Impressive Chad But I'm so dumb on this new fangled technology, that you'll have to remind me why your video's are unstabilised? Is it something yet to be fathomed, in the chain of priorities, or do you just prefer it that way?

[Heli Yea!]

I just use a small FPV cam that is fixed for a couple reasons.
1 Less weight
2 better CG
3 I perfer the playback unstabilized to relive the 'feel' of the flight.
4 so you can be on board and feel lost too.

[copterboy]

So I guess you prefer it that way then. I can see the advantages

I had to ask to develop my own understanding, so I know what I would want for myself eventually. The way I currently figure, I would probably want every configuration I've read about so far!

[Heli Yea!]

OH BTW this was done with the gogles strapped on my face!!!!!

[Tomstoy2]

You are a wild man!

[sutty]

Can't match Chad's achievement, but since I haven't posted a normal heli flight for a while, here are some selected shots from all four packs yesterday. I'm all a bit top of frame due to being lazy about lining up the camera on my head. Sorry about that. Anyway, here it is. Nothing great, but at least it's enough to show I haven't forgotten roughly how to fly.



Cheers

Sutty

[copterboy]

Some inspiration for me there, plus at around 6:44, I'm sure I could even here the applaud of some sheep

[Tomstoy2]

Got to wait a while before viewing until my new SP3 gets here.

Stuff if coming in. Got the keyboard today. The cd/dvd r/w external drive and hdmi adapter next. The SP3 won't show up for another week.

[copterboy]

Here's another one for u Tom

Well, I just got a video cooking from this afternoon. As the wind picked up around lunchtime, I held off my trip for a few hours to see if it died down, and it did, plus with the sun breaking through, it turned into a nice afternoon for this time of year.

So with all things finally right, I got all 4 packs ready and headed out. First very rusty, but felt very stable. Rolls and flips possibly a bit slow, but decided to try more. Hard pitch pumps were ok, but the collective pitch did feel much softer. Strangely, it felt much softer than the test in the garden yesterday, and I hadn't changed any settings.

But it was just responsive enough to endure, and I didn't try and re-program the pitch range at the field. Infact, you can see in the vid how I get a little close to the ground inverted!!

Headspeed felt ok for now, I didn't want to change it yet. On my 2nd pack, I managed to over fly down to 8%, as I forgot the timer on the DX6i. Wasn't happy about that, but I did manage 2 x 4 point tic toks, and practiced some inverted orientations. Decided to up my roll rates, so for my 3rd pack changed my control behaviour (B in parameters menu) from Red (Pro) to Flashing Blue (Extreme). Was much happier with how that felt, but strange enough, I could'nt complete another 4 point tic tok after that! I put it down to me needing a little more finesse on the sticks!

I have to say the little SIM time this morning definately helped blow out some cobwebs, as by the 4th pack the flying was almost back to how it was before, but definately not as confident. You wouldn't know it watching the vid, as the FBL unit makes it look so stable! I just hope I can get back out again soon. All in all a good day Sorry for the fixed POV!! Time for a new hat