Hi guys,

Just back from an exhausting and at the same time relaxing 12 days from Seychelles n Dubai!! Looking forward to getting back up in the air this weekend!! A CMPRO Quest 50 is on the building table now.. Going to power it with the OS .91 4s pumped!! Should ooze power all the way!! And having my eyes on a funjet ultra too!!

- Chan

Some flying from today, including the Mini Slinger flown by my brother, and the HK 450 Pro TT and Trex 600 N flown by me.

The camera was a new one, and looks like the low light, image stabilization (not sure if it was on or off!), and the use of zoom all together affected the quality of the video.  Most annoying is how the heli blades show up   Need to fix this for the next time.

NICE FLYING   
My Practice for Aamby Valley video, Not as great as yours.

Good flying Harveer !

You just need to do more some more pitch pump maneuvers, and do them a bit lower.  These seem to leave lasting impressions on spectators

I like to play safe, slow & study  . I never crashed any of my 4 Raptors (2 x 30's, 1 x 50SE & 1 x 30 sold Intact) not even a Main or tail blade (Touch wood)  in a span of 4 yrs.

Slow and steady   I am sure fast and low tic-tocs are in your near future

Yesterday ,
I went to Capt. Randhawa's air field privately owned by him .
I carried my SPAD and had 2 flights on it .

1st flight -
Axels on the wheels were loose so it was constantly moving to the right , we shut the engine and de-fueled it .
Tightened the axels and took off . It was quite unstable and if we have little elevator input , it would go up and continue or just dive . it safely landed about 12 minutes into the flight .

2nd flight -
fueled it up again and captain took it off . During flight if i'd give very big input's it'd fall into a spiral . About Half tank was complete and 8 - 10 mins in the flight , the engine quit and Capt brought it in for the landing .
It became so unstable that capt. had a hard landing with it and the screws holding the landing gear to the fuse bent and the landing gear got separated from the fuse . It also bounced back in the air after the first touch down .

Now ive decided to abandon my SPAD as i want to learn how to fly with a more stable trainer .

Capt. , Bharat uncle & Shashi Uncle were also present at the field .

We had lots of fun flying . Sadly only one video of the hard landing of the SPAD and no pics

Good to know that you visited Capt. Randhawa's field Sahevaan.  I was there sometime back and please give my regards to Capt., Bharat and Dr. Shashi as well as the others!!

On my side, I have totalled my 50cc Yak!!! !! On landing, as I was flaring, the plane just nose dived into the ground from about 10 feet!! A soldering on the Rx battery switch had pulled off and there was complete loss of radio control!! Fuselage and Cowl writeoff, wings intact, tail plane intact.  Yet to chk servo conditions.  Engine muffler damaged!! Bad break for me yday!!  Ok.. one more reason for me start working on the Quest!

- Chan

Wow. glad that this happened close to ground and there was no other damage. A 50 CC with no radio control can be dangerous !

Wow That was unfortunate. 

Which brand of switch, so others can be careful too ?

I am glad you figured out the real cause. Otherwise people would be quick to blame it on 2.4Ghz and either Futaba or Spektrum would be on the receiving end !

The mistake was not on the switch!! It was because of my careless soldering which gave way due to the vibration! Just for the record, the switch was Electrodynamics and capable of 10A!  Unfortunate!!

- Chan

hey guys yesterday and today i was teaching shrikant bhaiya to fly the axn floater jet which he got from HC

we had about 45 mins of flight yesterday and about the same today

i used to take the plane to a height and then hand him the tx and let him fly

he has learnt a lot in these 2 days posibly faster than i did

he also has got the confidence in taking off the floater jet

yesterday he tried twice or thrice and got it to takeoff once perfectly

today we had an excellent flight

this was the third sortie of today

and shrikant bhaiya just surprised me with his skills suuperb well done shrikant bhaiya

next week we are planning to maiden my new glider and

more training while taking off and landing the plane as he is dedicating himself to the sim

just one demoralising time came when we finished the third sortie and changed the battery

while connecting the battry to the esc he connected it to reverse polarity and burnt the esc

he was really very sad as he wanted to fly it more

then i had a 20 amp esc in my bag and just gave it to him to chenge the burnt one

anyways i gained a bit more experience for the upcoming glider

and the boeing weight reduction mission is on its way

subbu

Quote from: chanvivek on April 26, 2010, 05:58:35 PM
On my side, I have totalled my 50cc Yak!!! !! On landing, as I was flaring, the plane just nose dived into the ground from about 10 feet!! A soldering on the Rx battery switch had pulled off and there was complete loss of radio control!! Fuselage and Cowl writeoff, wings intact, tail plane intact.  Yet to chk servo conditions.  Engine muffler damaged!! Bad break for me yday!!  Ok.. one more reason for me start working on the Quest!

- Chan

Hi Chan,
I always use dual battery setup on Gassers with machanical swtiches & battery monitor on-board... Pic attached

Regards,
Harveer

 Dual battery setup

Thanks Harveer!! I should be doing this too!!

Hey everyone ,
On sunday i again went to captains airfield . When we reached there , it was very cloudy and all of us were making guesses when would it rain . After 30mins and when Dr.Shashi had completed on flight , it started drizzling . Just 10 minutes later it started raining very heavily , it didn't stop for very long . It would stop for 2 mins and start again . Finally it stopped at 6.15 , Captain was teaching one of his other students of my age to fly and it was the first flight of their trainer . After 20 minutes and it started raining again . So i had no stick time on this visit . At about 7 or 7.30 capt. ran My subaru's engine to see wether it was alright so if needed we could change the engine as i had a spare lying around. But the engine ran beautifully and started in one flick . So next time i go , as soon as i reach i could get the subaru in the air . At about 8 capt. started packing and we all left by 9 .

Did an aeroshow at pavaratty ,trichur in connection with a kids fest. highly tensed as i was flying first time before a big crowd. thanks anwar bhai for giving me such an oppurtunity as it is a real morale booster for me.now i am confident  that  i can fly a bit 

Nice   And thanks again !

The plane is hardly visible in the video, I will try to get some footage from the organizers.

2 Solo on this Sunday 

On sunday , went to captain's airfield again and had 2 flights on the subaru .
It flew beautifully . Captain even said i can do my training on this model but not landings and take-offs .
Another student had also brought along his trainer and did his solo yesterday . Bharat uncle got his spitfire with a .25 TT pro for its maiden . The engine had problems , so it flew for about 20seconds and had a dead stick landing.
After dark , Captain did some night flying on his Excel 2000 .
Overall it was a great day of flying

On Sunday i had been to karkala to watch rajsigma 
fly his new achievement
here s the video
sorry camera quality too low

My RC activities for the week.
1. Constructed only the airframe of cessna, handed it over to the professionals for the electronics.
2. I purchased my first RC(moss glider), under the guidance of Sai Sir (rcforall).
3. Burnt my Rx which sundaram sir had given me but that problem will be solved.
4. Getting hands on experience on RC modeling.
5. Probably increasing my level from a novice to a bit knowledgeable.

I thank
1. Anwar sir for being a role model
2. Sai sir for guiding and providing the resources for my theoretical to practical conversion.
3. Bohrey sir for guiding me
4. Sundaram sir for kicking start my journey.
5. Rcindia for being a perfect and a patient platform

Sincerely
Vaibhav

Well done man

Quote from: santhosh on May 04, 2010, 11:06:38 AM
Did an aeroshow at pavaratty ,trichur in connection with a kids fest. highly tensed as i was flying first time before a big crowd.

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