I had a few packs charged up and enough daylight left when we got back from Mothers day festivities at the inlaws to get about 6 flights in between my 350mm quad and the Gaui 330X, a solid 45 minutes of flight time. I've been spending a LOT of time working all orientations and doing (or trying anyway) precision flying around various trees and other obstacles in the yard. I've gotten to the point I can do fairly tight circles while holding altitude and nose-in hover and flight are nearly as good as tail-in though I did manage to shorten a set of rotor blades on the Trex 450 this morning seeing if nose-in ability on a multi translates to a heli.
It does, but the inertia of the blades mean they won't stop with minimal damage like on a multi if you have to set it down quick as I did when a gust of wind took it too close to the metal shed out back while in an eye level nose-in hover. Oh well, they were cheap wooden blades bought specifically with the knowledge this day was coming soon so I'm not at all upset.
As an RC heli flying friend used to say, "if you ain't crashing, you ain't learning"...
Ken
It does, but the inertia of the blades mean they won't stop with minimal damage like on a multi if you have to set it down quick as I did when a gust of wind took it too close to the metal shed out back while in an eye level nose-in hover. Oh well, they were cheap wooden blades bought specifically with the knowledge this day was coming soon so I'm not at all upset.
As an RC heli flying friend used to say, "if you ain't crashing, you ain't learning"...
Ken
