Wednesday, October 22, 2003
More and better control
The R/C plane ships in a mild response mode to help beginners not crash it. After a couple of handfulls of successful flights and landings I have started to make adjustments to make the plane more responsive. It is an interesting mix of relaxation as you control its gentle swoops and turns and excitement as you realize that you are moments from impacting a tree or the ground or the wind has picked up and is carrying you out over the lake. Last night I was having to do a little dance to keep the mosquitoes off too.
A friend of our had radon in his basement just a half mile from us. I figure we do to, but ignorance is bliss. I figure the exhaust leak under the hood of my car might kill me faster.
A friend of our had radon in his basement just a half mile from us. I figure we do to, but ignorance is bliss. I figure the exhaust leak under the hood of my car might kill me faster.
Monday, October 06, 2003
Going to have fun
Hi all,
Hope you all had a good conference weekend. I got out Saturday morning and flew the new airplane. It was almost too easy compared to fighting with the other one. Dad was right about steering, its reversed when the plane is heading towards you and his little trick of pointing the stick at the plane to get it to move towards center works like a charm. I had practiced this a bit using a free model airplane flight simulater (called FMS if you want to download and try it) The simulator helped a lot. After about seven minutes of circling I decided to try a loop and ended up stalling and crashing. I broke the tail, but that's what foam beginner planes with replaceable everything are for. After swapping the tail I took it up again. The trim was a bit off, but I was in full control and had a nice landing. Lots of fun on windless days. I bet we could put some skis on it for Christmas! Standing outside in the bitter cold staring at the sky does not sound to fun though.
Heading to Orlando for the business jet convention. I'll blog it after.
Hope you all had a good conference weekend. I got out Saturday morning and flew the new airplane. It was almost too easy compared to fighting with the other one. Dad was right about steering, its reversed when the plane is heading towards you and his little trick of pointing the stick at the plane to get it to move towards center works like a charm. I had practiced this a bit using a free model airplane flight simulater (called FMS if you want to download and try it) The simulator helped a lot. After about seven minutes of circling I decided to try a loop and ended up stalling and crashing. I broke the tail, but that's what foam beginner planes with replaceable everything are for. After swapping the tail I took it up again. The trim was a bit off, but I was in full control and had a nice landing. Lots of fun on windless days. I bet we could put some skis on it for Christmas! Standing outside in the bitter cold staring at the sky does not sound to fun though.
Heading to Orlando for the business jet convention. I'll blog it after.
