Cold affect Naza???

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Martyf1

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Last weekend, while waiting to video a couple of thousand people doing the "Polar Bear Plunge" here in Annapolis, my hex sat out in the 25 degree cold for about an hour. When the plunge started, I took off, and my hex immediately started an uncontrollable yaw, doing circles. I was afraid if I put it down I was going to break something, and since I was away from the crowds, no one was in danger, so I wrestled with it and finally got it under control. The cold is the only thing I can think of, as I took 2 previous flights just after I got here and everything worked as advertised. Question is has the cold affected anyone elses system?
 


Roger Ramjet

Roger Ramjet

Member
Agree with deanot, I fly in sub zero temp with NAZA all winter long and the only difference I noticed so far is that my flight time is reduced by at least 30% with unprotected batteries. Nothing to say about NAZA, my Graupner props seems very brittle but have always held OK. I fly both F450 and F550, both with GPS. Some pilots have reported an almost similar flight time using heated containers to keep their batteries warm until the flight as well as using a thermal protective jackets around the batteries.

One thing for sure: the finger tips are required to fly and probably are the most cold sensitive part of your body, that is if you fly with your pants on! (Ha! Ha!)

Seriously, no issues with NAZA all all so far.
 

drhanke

drhanke

New Member
I´ve flown every weekends this winter without any problems at all. Just take my out from the car and let it stand in the cold for 20-30 mins then go fly. This video is from last weekend when we had some fun on the ice with atv:s and snowmobiles in -25 and I did fly 6 flights that day. What the controller doesn´t like is getting filled with snow, but thats more a bad piloting error than something to blame the Naza for...

 
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