Clay's Video/Picture Flight Log

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:19 pm

nice flying Clay on both vids... double roll eh...lol, nice one, guess you deserve to lose a prop mate... id of snapped all the arms off....

cml001 · Post by **cml001** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:38 pm

Do they break often? Should I go ahead and order some? Other than props.. What goes more often than not on these things?

Stambo · Post by **Stambo** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:49 pm

You just need to have spare props, many, many, many props.

Once you are flying FPV you will need them.
If not you are not trying hard enough.

cml001 · Post by **cml001** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:56 pm

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:11 am

I've never broke anything on my quad other than props. I've lost one, so get a buzzer, and I've drown one, so get an auto inflatable air bag... Hahaha.....Mind you I've never hit anything hard at speed...lol...YET..

cml001 · Post by **cml001** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:46 pm

I still have to bank for the FPV gear.. But.. I did think about something lastnight... Iv got an old rePlay recorder that we used to mount to our boards & helmets to get video footy of us skating.. So I dug around and found it, mounted it, & recorded with it. IT SUCKS! Lol... The pixel & frame rate is terrible.. But I thought I'd shoot anyway.. Here is the first flight of two from my house.
http://youtu.be/__JKWxsF1Y0

cml001 · Post by **cml001** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 4:02 pm

2nd flight
http://youtu.be/jxeAzf7fl3Q

Post by **danhampson** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 4:48 pm

Nice flight clay, you were getting some good speed up on the second flight.

cml001 · Post by **cml001** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:06 pm

Yeah.. Been a good bit of traffic on my street this morn'n from down the hill.. & walkers.. It's to my back until the quad passes me.. And the lines are low... Been scared I was gonna hit something or someone... So I've tried to hold back a bit... Think I was much faster the first day I maiden'd.

DamhDearg · Post by **DamhDearg** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:08 pm

Looking good! You got comfortable with it pretty quick.

That's a lot of trees!

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:27 pm

Those were awesome flights Clay, nothing wrong with that camera, works a treat....

cml001 · Post by **cml001** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:56 am

Well, went to the field.. Took the 550 & the quad... May post the videos (took 2)... They are crap! Over steering way too much.. I think FPV will help with that.. But.. How do u guys fly.. Most of the flight all I saw was ground! U guys mount the camera with an up angle? Do those tilted motor mounts help?

Stambo · Post by **Stambo** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:37 am

Any video is better than nothing, but that wasn't too bad.
My mobius is on about a 15 degree angle up but sometimes it is still not enough.
I always try to put the FPV cam and mobius at the same angle.

Post by **danhampson** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:15 am

I have about 15 degrees on the fpv cam and about 20 degrees on the mobius, and like Stambo said sometimes that's not enough when I'm on it.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:51 am

That was fun to watch, Clay! Nice job!!!

cml001 · Post by **cml001** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:07 pm

Here the RCXs first day in the open..took her & the 550 to the field. The RCX flew ok... I started with D/R at 70%.. Seemed ok.. Some times at high speed I felt like it over shot turning stick inputs tho.. And at the begining of the video where I ended up behind myself & truck... It was kinda like a blow out in a heli... Briefly it wasn't behaving to the stick input... Wind? I don't know.. But it seemed ok overall.. I need to work on maintaining a fixed altitude during turns & throttle inputs.. Then I flicked to D/R at 55% toward the end to compair flips/rolls to the lower 70%.. It was quicker on the input obviously.. Made me have to watch when I eased off to keep from over rotating because it was faster. I wanna get a comfy rate identified so I can plug that into the CC3D and not transmitter as I have it now. Once I put FPV gear on her I'll have to find a good angle.. No way I could fly looking at the ground while kook'n.. I hope to be racing.. Mean'n I'm gonna want to kook the majority of the flight. OSD may help with that... Artificial horizon & altimeter on a HUD was a strong tool for me on combat flight sims like Falcon 4.0(best PC flight sim EVER!).. Anyhow.. I'm learning & having fun.
http://youtu.be/0WnjU97J6Bw

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:22 pm

Cool flying Clay, triple flip eh... Nice one....

cml001 · Post by **cml001** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:50 pm

Thanks bud.. Learning... Can't wait to get goggles & FPV gear!

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:48 pm

That was a fun ride, Clay! Nice job!!!

cml001 · Post by **cml001** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:07 pm

Rain stoped for a bit so I decided to have a quick go... Prolly the last flight I'll post from my front yard/street unless something kool happens... I'm thinking that watching it gets old pretty quick.. Anyhow..
http://youtu.be/_gSsGkRb97I

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