Video progress report!

[sutty]

For no other reason than Denis said somewhere 'keep the videos coming to keep him sane', here is a video of two or three packs from my 250 yesterday. Oh, and if you're going to watch, probably as well to be on full HD and full screen, as the 250 is pretty tiny.

No progress, and nothing much to see either other than a couple of crashes, which you can have a laugh at.

First one at around 3:30 was as a result of doing an elevator rainbow and whilst right side up I recovered a little too late and touched the grass and was kind of sucked in by the reduced head speed. No damage though as a result of the long grass.

Second one is towards the end, and I think I was doing inverted piros, and instead of stopping the piros to recover I forgot, and as it went wrong it just went worse and worse, and then I lost it behind the trees. It was a silly place to be doing it anyway. Lesson learned there since I hit the ground on the edge of the lawn, and not in the long grass so there was some minor damage.

All that was wrong was the front skid was knocked off, but it was only cable tied on anyway, and the back one had pulled out at one side but I managed to screw that back in. One aileron ball was pulled out of the servo horn, so I simply replaced the horn. Probably had it ready in about ten minutes.



Cheers

Sutty

[copterboy]

Indeed Sutty, I've not got anything to do myself so my only hobby pleasure is watching what you guys get upto!!

It helps watching it on my 37" TV again, and now I also have my latop wired to the TV and the TV wired to my stereo via the digital optical cable. I could hear the birds tweating over the heli noise, and then the bass of your footsteps during the first walk of shame shook the room...lol. Was it just me or was your voice muffled, I couldn't hear what your were saying. Was it something about the beeping guiding you in?

I thought that was a failsafe on some of the spektrum rx's anyway? If you loose it turn the tx off, and it should start beeping after 30 seconds (depends on the RX and ensuring you bind it with the throttle at low position). Thanks for posting

[sutty]

Sorry about the mumbling. Full transcript for your reading pleasure follows:

"Anybody notice where it went?

That’s really bad form not paying attention to where it went in!

Lost model alarm to the rescue.

That worked well.

Not that it was that lost, but?"








Cheers


Sutty

[sutty]

Managed a decent number of packs this weekend on the 550, 17, of which I had 5 today, and this is the last. I flew 4 towards the end of the afternoon, and then thought I'd put the hat cam on so charged one pack for an early evening flight.

Haven't even reviewed this video, so don't know if it looks okay, but will watch it as soon as the upload is complete. Believe it or not I can't watch the full HD versions on my PC, as they just go along in lumps because my PC can't cope, lol. Flying felt a bit smoother, which was nice, and managed one or two messy piros straight into piro flips, if I remember correctly. If they're not in this video, I managed a few that were half decent over the weeked, which was pleasing. Pushing on to achieve these after being inspired by Denis.



Cheers

Sutty

[Tomstoy2]

Andrew, your damn vid totally pisses me off!!!
I'm pissed at me, specifically. 3 years now and I've only touched my srh's once!
There you are, piro circles, inverted in the grass, piro flips and here I am scared to fly my shit because I might not find spare parts anymore.

Well, that isn't all of it, but it is some of it.
The 250, I still haven't set up the fc for it yet,
The 450 and 500 It is, damn HeliDierct is hard to find spare parts for.
The 600 is all set to go, no excuse there, along with the Avant.

Just been so absorbed with this 'dark side' I'm into, to tell you the truth.

Finally, all this overtime crap is behind me! Today I'm off and well into getting f**ked up!
Tomorrow, we'll see what the wind brings,,, supposed to kick up pretty good. However, taking a week off starting Saturday.

As far as the vid goes,,,
damn glad to see it with the GP3, finally! No problem at all with the focus, color, artifacts, nothing at all! A real pleasure to watch, my friend, a real pleasure!
To think back at how scared you were to fly the damn thing, huh?

Keep them coming, buddy! Always a pleasure to watch you put her thru her paces!!!

[sutty]

Thanks Tom. Don't know why you are worried though, it's mainly a choice thing. You've chosen FPV as your primary goal, and a damned fine job you are making of it. Your videos are equally inspiring to me, and will, before not too long, push me to move on with my efforts in that direction. Not in a big rush though, and am happy to see what Jerry makes of the Arducopter. As I said elsewhere if Naza-H was rth enabled, I would already have one.

As for not flying the ones with no spares, well they can never be flown again if that is the case. Can't you Alignify them, slowly replacing what is original with Align, as and when you crash?

Cheers

Sutty

[Tomstoy2]

Got a little ahead of myself, couldn't resist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=UBdMOnu_org

[Tomstoy2]

A little more damage than I thought. Broke the top plate, too, along with 2 props and 1 arm. $32 total including shipping.

All good fun.

Also, learned my old Zippy battery's for my 450 are not to be used for flight anymore. Actually, going to have to look into getting more battery's for her. My new, ( old ), Volt battery's aren't much better.

Little bastard is a whole lot of fun to fly, though! Pretty damn happy with this $30 KK2 board. Just need to set up some dual rates so I can do some flips next time!