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[dbninja]

due to the inclement weather and a very frozen boating lake i decided to re-visit an old friend/enemy??  flying model helicopters

so for the last month (every day) i have be flying an indoor full four channel electric helicopter!  its brilliant and just as difficult as i remember from a few years ago

i fly "mode 2" so its throtle and rudder on the left stick,and  for/aft and left right (roll) cyclic.  so you steer the heli with the rudder on the left stick and bank it with the aileron (roll) on the right stick

anyway

today for the first time in over a month i went sailing as the lake has defrosted.....   have you worked it out yet?

yep! boat hurtling towards the quay side!

gave it a big lefthand stickfull of helicopter rudder


boat hit the quay side square on and tried to swallow the lake



think i had better swap all my boat rudder servos over to the left stick now


DOH!

db

[red181]

nice one

funnily enough, I was on a field at 8.30am doing exactly the same, My new year resolution is to master a nice fig of eight, I got my highest flight, and some pirouettes, and a real messy fig of 8, but still get the feeling that it could all end up in  a bin bag of bits!, dont know who is in control, the heli or me