Grabbed the opportunity for an early flight as the rest of the house was still asleep and the conditions & lighting were great.
Nice flight along the hills, on the home straight coming back & lost video :o
Engaged RTH, must have been too late.....
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At least I know where it is this time!!
Oh dear :( You did well to spot it there Rich !
I hope you get it back undamaged, how I don't know though.
One wing off already.
Tracked it down with the Crossfire GPS location. Glad I got that sorted out now!
Game keeper was talking about trying to shoot out the branch it was sat on :o
Sent a message to the local tree surgeon, he will enjoy a laugh climbing up for it. ;)
That tree is protected.... with the powers invested in me by the RSPCT be advised if you damage it I won't have bacon butties at your place again ;D
PK :)
Quote from: luvbus on April 08, 2016, 11:41:37 AM
One wing off already.
Tracked it down with the Crossfire GPS location. Glad I got that sorted out now!
Game keeper was talking about trying to shoot out the branch it was sat on :o
Sent a message to the local tree surgeon, he will enjoy a laugh climbing up for it. ;)
The game keeper's option sounds like excellent fun.
Quote from: pk-surfing on April 08, 2016, 11:53:48 AM
That tree is protected.... with the powers invested in me by the RSPCT be advised if you damage it I won't have bacon butties at your place again ;D
PK :)
Its lucky its not on my spot, the chainsaw would have been out by now!!
It's back!! ;D ;D
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Not in too bad shape either, needs a couple of wing joiner tubes and some new foam splicing into the wings to fill the dents a spinner printing out and a new wire to one of the aileron servos.....
Hopefully there will be a video to follow.....
Glad you got her back, complete with really big battle wounds on the wings :)
Huzzah :)
gutted for you for the crash... so soon after it's maiden
but glad you've got it back and it's not too badly damaged.
Guess that is the way it goes sometimes.
It was such an ace flight too.
Had a look at the video. Seem to have dipped below a rise. The RTH kicks in just after it arrives in the tree :+
Not that impressed with the way Runcam 2 handles light levels. Although it looks like there is a firmware update as it flashed up when I put the SD card in the Mac.
Good to see you got it back. You'll be up again soon 😉
What's that thing like? See so many mixed reviews??
I like it, flys very well.
Mine is the EPO version so 1.8m span rather than 2m of the 'unobtanium' version.
It came with a foam plug for the nose so you can dispense with the roll/tilt servo driven ball thing. I have it set up with FPV cam & fixed Runcam 2.
I did go straight for a 3D printed boom prop rather than the supplied gear driven one.
12x8" Aeronaught folding prop on 4s 8000mah.
Chocka about pranging it really :'(
I will patch it up but have already ordered another airframe from China, so cannot be all bad! ;)
Show us some pics of it "out of the box" when it arrives luvbus. Be good to have a nosey :)