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Look whos ready to fly

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After 6 months on the shelf, the 570 is ready to remaiden :)
Just need this stupid wind to calm down again.
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That's really cool, Lee! Glad you got it all back together and ready to go. Are those the Blackline blades?
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Great news Lee:)
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Great news mate, looking good!
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Yes, really good news Lee. Here almost rebuilt another Agile 5.5. Just waiting for funds to get some 6s batteries.
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Looking sweet! 8-) Now go out and have some fun. :P
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Derek wrote:That's really cool, Lee! Glad you got it all back together and ready to go. Are those the Blackline blades?
Thanks guys.
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Umm, false start on the maiden.
Took it to the local club to test. Had forgotten to set up the tail limits.
Without my PC or my android phone, I was grounded :(

But now its all set up properly, and ready for tomorrow :)
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Sounds like a brain fart...we all have those. Good luck tomorrow Lee!
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Did my one full battery spool up on the ground today, to check for any issues before lift off.
Everything is still tight. Blade tracking was out, so a couple of turns of the turnbuckles, and its spot on.
Tomorrow I'll give it some air under its feet :D
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You check tracking on the ground? Interesting. I always lift off into a low hover and slowly move above and below my sight line to check the disc silhouette. I'm always worried about a tip over if I leave it on the ground too long.
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I normally lift off for tracking, but during the test spool up, it was really obvious the tracking was out.
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ah. Have had that happen. Can get a bit dicey trying to take off with it that bad.
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Maiden went really well.
Shes locked and loaded.
I'm sure you don't want to see me just hovering around in all orientations,
so i won't bother uploading the video, unless someone asks :)
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All orientations? 45degree quartering yaw on knife edge, skids in? :)
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Never seen a heli hover in a knife edge :D
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I want to see it :)
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Hovering with skids in? That would be impressive!
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Excellent news Lee, yeah I want to see the vid too, get it uploaded mate...
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