Fun Fly wrap up and Microbeast overall impressions
Posted 01-24-2011 at 04:30 AM by nwmtech
I bought a whole lot of 700 goodies from Justin while I was down at the fun fly so I came home and got those all installed. PushGlo, Quick UK canopy mounts, blade stickers, fuel pump, etc. I also dug into and found the cause of a weird glitch I was getting in the motor a couple times. I noticed that I was running a bit lean on the last half of each flight and had tuned to accomidate it at the fun fly so it wasn't a huge deal but in the end it turned out to be the fuel tank plastic bung. I noticed I would start sucking a TON of air once the fuel level hit 1/2 tank with my fuel pump hooked up to it and putting a new clunk in didn't cure it. Ironically, one of the pieces of "bling" I got from him was an aluminum fuel tank bung so once I got that in all problems were solved. Cool! The heli flew so perfectly other than that I think I'm just going to call it "done" for now and enjoy flying it for awhile.
Gave the N5 a thorough going over and it look like all my issues are in the past now. Everything was still dead on and I shot a fair amount of autos and never had a problem with the new one way bearing. Only thing I can see possibly getting for it is a AR7100R just so I can shave the weight of the MulitGov Pro. This would allow me to run the Hyperion 1300mah receiver packs I used to run and still keep the CG happy. Not to mention it would really clean up the wiring and I'm sure the 700 would love to have the MGP on it instead of the Align Gov.
I'm still grinning ear to ear thinking about the fun fly. I had a blast and it's really nice to finally be over the "hump" of all the issues I've had lately with the helis. I have absolutely zero regrets in switching to MicroBeast and while I still feel VBar might have a very slight advantage in the end there's no question that with the MicroBeast you'll spend more time flying and far less time tweaking. Not to mention no more dragging my laptop to the field. I am, however, a little bummed I didn't get to try the Mikado Gov but I think the AR7100R's will work great for what I need.
Gave the N5 a thorough going over and it look like all my issues are in the past now. Everything was still dead on and I shot a fair amount of autos and never had a problem with the new one way bearing. Only thing I can see possibly getting for it is a AR7100R just so I can shave the weight of the MulitGov Pro. This would allow me to run the Hyperion 1300mah receiver packs I used to run and still keep the CG happy. Not to mention it would really clean up the wiring and I'm sure the 700 would love to have the MGP on it instead of the Align Gov.
I'm still grinning ear to ear thinking about the fun fly. I had a blast and it's really nice to finally be over the "hump" of all the issues I've had lately with the helis. I have absolutely zero regrets in switching to MicroBeast and while I still feel VBar might have a very slight advantage in the end there's no question that with the MicroBeast you'll spend more time flying and far less time tweaking. Not to mention no more dragging my laptop to the field. I am, however, a little bummed I didn't get to try the Mikado Gov but I think the AR7100R's will work great for what I need.
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