Aaaaahhhh miss that crowd

Was the ESC the only loss ?

Good flying there Chan...  You should be having a separate battery for the receiver. Didn't you?

Ya. the launcher appears authentic south Indian style. I liked the way he launched the plane in one of the previous videos.

Santosh ,
Great Plane , Great Host , Great launcher  and great Flying Field ( very much like Kovalam where we fly )

Chan ,
Good flying   from what  you say it looks like the 4S fried the ESC and not the BEC , if the BEC was to go it should have done so within  seconds of take off. Hence it could only been a problem of ESC cooling or excess amp draw . BTW which was the ESC may be we could check the specs  as all MPX sites say only 3 S .

Anwar ,
Elapor  so not much damage should be there .


Santosh ,
Why don't we have a fun fly event  out on your Paddy fields sometime in April/May 2009 .
Anwar can plan then to be home  as well .

Sai

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Santosh ,
Why don't we have a fun fly event  out on your Paddy fields sometime in April/May 2009 .
Anwar can plan then to be home  as well .

Sai

sure ,always welcome,will try to coordinate with anwar bai

Quote from: anwar on February 19, 2010, 01:08:45 PM
Was the ESC the only loss ?

Yeah Anwar, the ESC was the only loss

Quote from: izmile on February 19, 2010, 01:39:18 PM
Good flying there Chan...  You should be having a separate battery for the receiver. Didn't you?

Ya. the launcher appears authentic south Indian style. I liked the way he launched the plane in one of the previous videos.

Thanks Ismail... No the ESC had a built in BEC and we were making use of that.. No separate battery pack for Rx.. And regarding the launcher... Hes the best !

Quote from: rcforall on February 19, 2010, 02:21:42 PM
Good flying  from what  you say it looks like the 4S fried the ESC and not the BEC , if the BEC was to go it should have done so within  seconds of take off. Hence it could only been a problem of ESC cooling or excess amp draw . BTW which was the ESC may be we could check the specs  as all MPX sites say only 3 S .

Hi Uncle,

It was a typical case of drawing excess amps!! And once the motor quit, I put it on the landing approach.. so it was pretty safe!! And thanks to elapor too!! !!

- Chan

nice to see you guys having fun

Hi Chan,

You must be very lucky to have the BEC working when the ESC was smoking!

-Ismail

With these Multiplex ones and that paddy field, it would not be a problem even if the BEC also went out.  When Santhosh and I were flying earlier, we had a model disappear from sight behind some trees at a height of about 100ft, and all we could do was to cut throttle. It fell to the ground amidst some shrubs, and had ZERO damage !

Quote from: izmile on February 19, 2010, 11:50:01 PM
Hi Chan,

You must be very lucky to have the BEC working when the ESC was smoking!

-Ismail

You bet he  very very lucky In the case of my Acro the BEC smoked as well  and  we lost total control , but as Anwar says  with MPX  it crashed but back to flying the very next week

hi,
   Had a lot of fun flying my hornet trainer at our flying field.done a few low high speed low passes,also had a lot of fun with my electric low wing done a few barrel rolls.Had to come across a few cross winds.landing was a bit tough than other days due to cross wind,at the end landed everthing sucessfully without damage .It was fun to watch my frens flying their planes too.anyways heres some pics
                                                                                                                        Happy flying and landing,
                                                                                                                                  Zuala
                                                                                                                                 

I went to the field today with a friend to help him with some training on his Trex 600N heli, on a trainer cable setup.  We share our adhoc flying field with folks who fly hunting falcons (yes, real birds!), and just when we were to take off, we noticed a falcon swooping down on a pegion next to our car.  It caught up with the pegion under our car, and soon the owner of the falcon arrived and pulled both of them out from underneath the car.

It was a great opportunity to see a falcon hunt its prey in such close proximity, and the gentleman was kind enough to pose for some photos

Just added to the fun today at the field !

Hi Guys,

We did an airshow at REC, Trichy yesterday and it went on really well!! Had a very nice time there.. The planes that I flew are Yak 54 50cc, Giles 202 26cc, Mustang OS 1.20 and an Easy Star.  Aravind flew his huge scale helis and did some crazy aerobatics with his new Raptor 50 SE!  One more friend of ours, Mr. Rajesh flew his Extra 300 50cc, Yak 54 26cc and a Low wing trainer.  Overall it was a very nice experience performing there.  Had a bit of trouble with my DA 50 though.. When the model was flying, I noticed a weird vibration!! I landed and checked the engine, the prop had completely come off and was just held by the spinner.  I removed the spinner and then saw that the 4 bolts used to hold the prop to the engine had completely sheared off and they were stuck inside the engine.. Very lucky to have got the plane back yesterday.. The spinner edges was slightly bent and the prop was damaged pretty badly.. No other damage.. Have to get a spare hub from DA for my engine now..There is no way to remove the broken bolts from inside the engine.. The only way is to retap and enlarge the threads...

Anyone from the forum came for the show???

- Chan

Good going.. Chan   Please do post some pictures/videos !

Quote from: anwar on February 28, 2010, 10:58:47 PM

It was a great opportunity to see a falcon hunt its prey in such close proximity, and the gentleman was kind enough to pose for some photos

Well if he was happy to pose, then y did u blur his face? Also just wondering if the pigeon is the food for the gentlemen or the falcon 

Because he posed for personal pictures taken by us, not to be posted publicly on a forum   At least not until I meet him again, and get specific permission for the same. It was more a courtesy move from my side.

The pegion was food for the falcon, just as nature prescribed !

Wow, My mouth is watering! Not at the pigeon, but after seeing the Trex 600 Nitro! 

I knew of an interesting use of RC Planes in UAE  concerning Falcon and Pigeon .
In UAE Falconers build a small cage under a highwing trainer  and put pigeon in it , take off  reach an altitude  and open the cage door with a servo and the pigeon flies out . then falconers on the ground set free their falcons at the same time . The competition is whose falcon gets the pigeon .

The  first  time  I saw a plane being modified for it in  Abu Dhabi I was quite surprised at the ingeneous use of the RC plane.

Actually that is very common here   People (with lots of "resources" and who are into both hobbies) buy like 5 to 10 pieces of the same model of planes (the Kyosho Calmato Sport 40 low wing is a frequent candidate), and have them all tweaked with the "bird release" mechanism. Causes planes to get sold out in no time, causing some grief to others

I would love to own a Falcon which could hunt & bring R/C's (especially Ashta's  ) from Jakkur to my home




Sanjay

QuoteI would love to own a Falcon which could hunt & bring R/C's

Hi All,

Here are some videos of a recent Heli RC meet in gurgaon Delhi










Thanks
HellyFlyer

Helped train 4 different folks this week.  One of them was my brother's 10 year old son.  He flew near perfect circuits on his very first flight (using a Kyosho Minium), reiterating the fact that significant simulator time really helps.  He flew more using the AXN Floater, with pretty much no external help !  And the important thing was that turning both ways (figure 8s both ways etc) seemed like very natural things for him.

I hope any newcomers take their sim time as serious as they can.

here is the video of my friend kunjai flying his twinstar ( posting as requested by him)









santhosh

Where is this     

And I wanted to see where/how he landed ! 

Did he put the Trex 500 flybarless back together, and is it flying ?

 flying area is the back side of his house ( he told me so). other questions no ans from my side

santhosh