Hello sir, which fpv gear are you using?

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HK 900Mhz 1500mW vTx with Stock Omni Antenna
Stock Video Rx is with upgraded Saw Filter. and a 900Mhz 8dbi Patch Antenna on the ground.

Camera - Sony 650 TVL Super HAD 2 with OSD.

Saurabh, is your equipment like this ?? 
How is it possible to achieve 4km range  

As i said...

I hve a turnigy 9x on frsky with 1watt booster. It can gime me more than 8 kms of radio control. Video is not a problem as i am using a 1.5 watt video transmission with a patch on d ground... This is no great shakes... Anyone can achieve this kind of range with this setup...

I worked on testing my Hat CAM. I am not happy with the results..will work on modifying the angle a bit more to capture less of ground 




Hellyflyer

 

Today was the best and worst day of my rc flying..

best part is,I did two successful landings ..

worst thing is:
for final landing approach after about a half hour of flying, at dusk, i didnt noticed high tension wires in the field, the plane got hit to wires and was falling vertically down.. here i made mistake, I accelerated full throttle and pulled rudder to edge ,to avoid crash..
the plane lost control and dive into a pond nearby..

Dont know how but got fuse cracked at two places..
I am also worried about electronics .
two servos were under water for about 15 minutes during rescue operations..

Sorry to hear about this abhay seems the fuselage is completely damaged which plane is it?

its dragon fly, i also had crashed yesterday and it broke nearly from similar places, but it's a quick fix

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=11439

Chintu its EPP dragonfly from Hobbyking as anand said above .. Its my first ever kit build,i am a scratch builder though..

I will fix the fuse, but worried about servos,esc and rx though electronics didnt taste the pond water except two servos.

sad to hear..

Abhay you coming from my neighbouring city i wanted to ask did u order this plane directly from hobbyking,if yes didnt u had any problem with the customs though I have been ordering electronics from hobbyking never had the courage to order a Kit or an ARF

Yes chintu i ordered it directly from hobbyking, but it was held by customs.I took advise from a senior member and kept quiet and after about a week it released from customs.. But its quiet disturbing .
i was lucky, but many wait and are still waiting for months, haven't got their parcel.

Its all your luck.Next time onwards ill order kits from LHS for my peace of mind.
Ill refer you to read the related threads before import of kits.

@roopesh sir, its sad but i am rather happy that i made two successful landing for first time.
I have glued the plane and it will be ready by tomorrow.  ..
Motor,ESC,Rx,Battery and aileron servos have survived. I havent plugged the rudder and elevator seros since they were drowned for long time.Still no traces of moisture in them, but will plug them in Rx after inspection during day time.

So a couple of friends and I actually started our own local drifting club around our area and though we only had 2 people join the group, the interest seem to actually grow as I have a couple of people contact me and ask questions about the entire kit and how maintain and manage them well.  I just hope we could really start a good club for everyone to enjoy all at the same time.

GauravAg posted this on Facebook.  Requesting everyone to post such videos here... such stuff will lead to interesting discussions

Another video uploaded by Gauravag, with a very interesting looking slow flying pusher plane/glider.  Was this built out of some plan ?

Very  very very Beautiful Gaurav. I felt love at fight sight with ur pusher  . What a beautiful glide. I liked it better than ES and clone.
Please please share the plans and dimensions with build log. Tried many pusher planes but not succeeded yet. I am sure if u help definitely i can make my First (Success full) pusher plane.
WAITING........

Manoj Sharma.

The pusher is not by Gaurav Agarwal (gauravag), it is by another flyer, also named Gaurav B (Bhansal ?).  Also featured in this video.

Thanks anwar sir.  Corrected 

I was shocked to get a phonecall on Saturday to get out of bed and wait for the boys to pick me up and take me to the field. I have a special chair at the field and it was wheeled onto the cow paddock, minus the cows and I had my first fly of my Mikey's plane. It was wonderful, the weather was chilly but perfect for flying. My plane behaved without fault. A little aileron trim and it was perfect. It climbed well, and landed smoothly. It was a great 2 hours but cut short as my pain killers ran out of killing. I've repaireda Grasshopper J3. My wife dropped it on it's tail and everything broke. It's now repaired and so is my wife :-) I finished building my Phoenix 2000 apart from placing the decals. I emptied my receiver box and bound every receiver to it's transmitter. I became quite good at it after 35 bound with no faults found. I charged up just about everything I own with inbuilt batteries and then charged all the spare batteries for Digital cameras. I did a forensic recovery from my hard drive. I clicked to delete one movie and 200 vanished. I have managed to reclaim 120.

My latest order arrived from HobbyKing and ithad to be sorted and put into it's proper storage drawers. I balanced about 6 or 7 new props, repaired 2 helicopters for friends, found mt Lama 2 had a burnt out one way bearing and ordered a new one. Wrote endless emails and PMs, made some new friends from India. Cut about 20 meters of various size heatshrink into suitable sizes for plugs etc. Discovered a better way to identify receiver wiring. Slipping heatshrink (red or yellow) over the plug and onto the wire, writing AIL, RUD, ELE, etc on it with black marking pen and then shrinking it. Leaving a permanent reminder of what goes where. Fitted a much smaller receiver to my Sky Surfer. Read a lot of RC information, answered a lot of questions on HobbyKing's ANSWERS  section and got paid 80 cents for it. Watched about 100 UTube RC videos and drank lots of tea. A pretty normal slow sort of a week.

I'm praying madly for an extra 6 hours to be added to each day because there is nowhere enough as it is. No reply so far. I'm also experimenting with having only 2 hours sleep a night but the experiment is being messed up by continually nodding off.

Next week I'll try to do some work.  Kind regards  Stuart

Anwar, could you please tell me how you stop your prop from being damaged every time you land. If it stops vertically you must lose your prop every time you fly. I would like to know because I have a pair of wings I intend to join to make an 8 foot flying wing.

By the way, I really like your art work, a very smart plane and well flown too.

Kind regards  Stuart

Quote from: Propfella on June 12, 2012, 07:08:56 AM
Slipping heatshrink (red or yellow) over the plug and onto the wire, writing AIL, RUD, ELE, etc on it with black marking pen and then shrinking it. Leaving a permanent reminder of what goes where.

Hobbyking too has come up with this contraption, may be stolen from your idea , Sue them for stealing your patent !! here

I only saw these yesterday and I was shocked, I mentioned this many months ago (about January) I told someone this is what I used instead of using sticky tape or cut up pieces of labels because it couldn't possibly fall off and your could mark whatever you liked on it. I mentioned I used red or yellow heatshrink and wrote on it with a black marker pen. The name really stood out after it had been shrunk. This method is similar but nowhere near as good. What about left and right or additions such as Co-pilot or simply power to another device. I have a FMS T28 Trojan and there are so many cables, extensions, piggy -back connectors it would be impossible to track anything without the tags on them but with time they would fall off where these wouldn't. But the range they give is poor and what do you do with any left over. I much prefer making my own then you mark them with anything and no waste. I see there is no left Aileron and Right Aileron, Wheel servo and many other names which could be used especially with video gear on board, and being black they are very hard to write on and be seen clearly. Somebody obviously liked my idea.

Another thing I don't like is the wishy washy white on black. Very hard to see buried deep in the plane. My system really stands out plus the name is written on both sides prior to be slipped over the plug. There is nothing mentioned about placing these prior to fitting them because if you leave it too late you could easily melt the foam with the heat gun when you shrink it. Ripped off again. Even the idea of actually shrinking it over the plug I mentioned as well but don't shink it over the plug which goes in the receiver, it won't fit. Very handy for joining extensions it stops them pulling apart.  Is it coincidence? I just hope nobody made any money out of the idea.

I use heatshrink for many things, my last purchase was 2 meters of every size available from 2 mm up to 50 mm Does anyone know how many meters that is. From Memory it was every 2mm up to 30mm and the every 5 mm up to 50mm....... 38 meters of heatshrink in 3 different colours is 114 meters in all. I'm not far off having to repeat my order I use so much.

By the way another thing I always do is to use the correct size to shrink onto deans connectors but then I have the size to slip over the body of the connector and allow enough to completely cover the smaller pieces as well. When deans are soldered they are not always insulated right up to the body of the plug and a small amount of metal can be seen. Using the larger piece this covers those gaps as well. Shrinking a piece of couloured heatshrink over the head of a key is handy. I used to have mine colour coded. Red for shop keys and yellow for home. If you want to join the two vertical stab supports for mikey's plane. Don't poke them through seperate holes. Join two sticks together with heatshrink, poke one stick through the hole until one stick points out each side then use CA to bind them together. Looks much neater and even stronger. I've even used it to hold a screw on the end of the screw driver if it has to be inserted at a difficult angle which is hard to get at with fingers. One last one. Shrink some around an LED and run the wires back up the tube if you are trying to look into a very dark intererior of a fuselage. Don't do what one smart guy said to do. Get a flood light outside the fuselage because the light will shine straight through it. It certainly will when the foam melts from the heat.

Thanks For the heads up Gusty.
Happy heat shrinking   Stuart

Posted by Harveer on FB.

Quote from: Propfella on June 12, 2012, 07:17:08 AM
Anwar, could you please tell me how you stop your prop from being damaged every time you land.

I assume you are referring to the flying wing model posted a few threads before.  I am only the messenger   It was done by our member gauravag.

http://www.rcindia.org/profile/?u=52

All kudos to him, and I am sure he can answer the rest of the questions. 

In general, the props on wings are mounted on an elevated platform, and due to the pusher nature, they are tilted upwards (looking from front to back).  And since high KV motors are used with smaller props, this is not really an issue.