Re: Yep another noob wanting a AXN floater
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:09 am
wow. just wow.
So I went up there with my girlfriend. glided it, yep glides well. launched it, gets about 20 metres up, i bank left and cut throttle, idiot. ailerons are reversed and it stalls and dives HARD into the ground. AXN is demolished. the nose is broken in the middle on top, and broken right and left hand side of cockpit, back stem is broken and nearly severed right off.
I collect it and walk home across the road, a bit in shock. what the hell happened? didnt think these were so dam brittle. I try to remain positive, i get our the fibre tape and the glue gun, and get to work fixing it. 20 minutes later glue has not set properly, but i head back to the park stubborn to get this thing going. I work out how to reverse the channel on the 9xr. do another check...
put throttle to 70% throw it high, hit the elevator, give it more boost toe 90% and we are OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. vhrooom up she goes 100 feet at least, the park is right on a 100 foot cliff face so she is climbing HIGH. i lower the throttle and adrenalin is rushing, have I got control of this thing or am I fluke it, i make a few turns, she comes flying towards me, I'm confident with the control since alll the simulator work I have been doing on the way to work..
But then she goes rushing past me down wind and i give her more elevator and.... SUN , can't see shit! I lose my bearings while turning her, is she coming towards me or away, must be towards, oh no no she is sailing off shes not turning, no control, its then i realise my body has not turned and im facing away from the plane. I quickly spin around and vhroom, she banks, and climbs into the wind and past me again.
amazing. I fly her for ten straight minutes, another 10 minutes later I have landed her three times into the wind and taken off again. Playing in the wind with zero throttle while 2-3 dog walkers look on, amazing fun.
I forgot to re tape the ailerons servo cable hiders, so they fell out onto the park but I found them. my elevator is also broken but nothing some hot glue cannot fixed. So all and all a few lessons and a bit of a ruffed up AXN but I think she will fly again!
lessons learnt.
Check all controls! and check again!
back to sun , do not fly near it.
stay high. only fly low attitude INTO the wind on landing approach.
Stoked!
It should be an amazing view from up there, its a little park 100x100 above bondi golf course. and will look over sea, bondi, and back to the city. Have a 720p keychain coming this week and will give it a crack next weekend.
thanks all.
So I went up there with my girlfriend. glided it, yep glides well. launched it, gets about 20 metres up, i bank left and cut throttle, idiot. ailerons are reversed and it stalls and dives HARD into the ground. AXN is demolished. the nose is broken in the middle on top, and broken right and left hand side of cockpit, back stem is broken and nearly severed right off.
I collect it and walk home across the road, a bit in shock. what the hell happened? didnt think these were so dam brittle. I try to remain positive, i get our the fibre tape and the glue gun, and get to work fixing it. 20 minutes later glue has not set properly, but i head back to the park stubborn to get this thing going. I work out how to reverse the channel on the 9xr. do another check...
put throttle to 70% throw it high, hit the elevator, give it more boost toe 90% and we are OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. vhrooom up she goes 100 feet at least, the park is right on a 100 foot cliff face so she is climbing HIGH. i lower the throttle and adrenalin is rushing, have I got control of this thing or am I fluke it, i make a few turns, she comes flying towards me, I'm confident with the control since alll the simulator work I have been doing on the way to work..
But then she goes rushing past me down wind and i give her more elevator and.... SUN , can't see shit! I lose my bearings while turning her, is she coming towards me or away, must be towards, oh no no she is sailing off shes not turning, no control, its then i realise my body has not turned and im facing away from the plane. I quickly spin around and vhroom, she banks, and climbs into the wind and past me again.
amazing. I fly her for ten straight minutes, another 10 minutes later I have landed her three times into the wind and taken off again. Playing in the wind with zero throttle while 2-3 dog walkers look on, amazing fun.
I forgot to re tape the ailerons servo cable hiders, so they fell out onto the park but I found them. my elevator is also broken but nothing some hot glue cannot fixed. So all and all a few lessons and a bit of a ruffed up AXN but I think she will fly again!
lessons learnt.
Check all controls! and check again!
back to sun , do not fly near it.
stay high. only fly low attitude INTO the wind on landing approach.
Stoked!
It should be an amazing view from up there, its a little park 100x100 above bondi golf course. and will look over sea, bondi, and back to the city. Have a 720p keychain coming this week and will give it a crack next weekend.
thanks all.