Camerons Flights

Graham Lawrie · Post by **Graham Lawrie** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:27 pm

http://youtu.be/asoICxWT9fo

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:42 pm

Nice, is that one of the wasp 280's

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:55 pm

Nice little quad

DamhDearg · Post by **DamhDearg** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:17 pm

Cheers for uploading Graham.
Yeah Kev its a wasp 280, I like it.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:47 am

Yeah I liked that design as well

DamhDearg · Post by **DamhDearg** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 8:57 am

Got a couple flights in last night. Perfect weather. Beginning to practice piro flip reversals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sezhu9mrqs

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:37 am

That's really really good flying, Cameron! WOW! I'm gonna be honest here...I had to watch the video twice because I was watching the scenery a lot, too, lol. Your piro flips look great to me! I wish I could piro flip in any direction, lol. I try it on the sim but I just haven't been able to wrap my head around the concept yet. Anyway....awesome awesome flying!!!

DamhDearg · Post by **DamhDearg** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 4:40 pm

Lol thanks Derek its a nice place for sure. I'm glad the goblins so visible otherwise I'd probably lose it in the background more often.

Post by **pvolcko** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:12 am

Very nice flying!

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:59 am

Beautiful scenery Cameron. I miss Scotland.
Need to get some stick time in, to catch back up with you

DamhDearg · Post by **DamhDearg** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:59 am

Thanks Paul!
As you know Lee it will get even nicer in summer with the green hills.
It wont take you long to get your skills back and learning new stuff once you get some nice weather.
Do you have any goals for the year?

Graham Lawrie · Post by **Graham Lawrie** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:37 am

Great flight Cam:) sorry i could not make it:( thats relatives for you:(

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:06 am

I'm gonna work through the proficiency list of RCHN

DamhDearg · Post by **DamhDearg** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:07 pm

I put a lipo in my DX 8 around December I think, haven't charged it since then. Stupidly I didn't chech the voltage last night and of course it ran out, didn't sound an alarm before it cut out completely. I was still in the mindset that it was the nimh battery's which sound an alarm before cutting out. Lipos of course don't do that.

Hence this happened!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5lA0JHoWPA

Lesson learned, check TX battery more often.
Damaged one blade and two of the smaller servo gears.
I really need to stop crashing, glad it was the 380 and not the 700, could have been incredibly dangerous!

DamhDearg · Post by **DamhDearg** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:15 pm

Thanks Graham, responsibility's suck! lol

Two lessons learned from this in fact. One is always stay on top of all battery voltage and two, don't fly around people who don't know the dangers.
I'm pretty good at keeping a safe distance from myself and others. Not that there's many people around here to worry about, lol.
This at least is the first non pilot error crash I've had for quite a while.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:02 pm

it sounds like you got real lucky, as far as the damage is.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:27 pm

Looks like it autos well

LOL
You had a lucky escape.

DamhDearg · Post by **DamhDearg** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:31 pm

Like a stone in this case

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:21 am

Not too bad then Cam, been there and done that with the TX battery, mine was 4.2 volts when it packed up with my 450.. Lesson learnt...

DamhDearg · Post by **DamhDearg** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:38 am

Just an update on the transmitter battery. It showed 3.84v on each cell after the crash, I charged it, plugged it back in and tried to turn the transmitter on.
It would not turn on so I changed to the old battery and it works. I'm beginning to think there is a problem with the power output leads of the lipo rather than it running into voltage cutoff.
Any similar experiences or thoughts?

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