mwfullen
Junior Member
This is my first post here and as it might be clear I am a complete newbie to RC planes. My friends and I stumbled a crossed Maker Hanger and decided to dive into this hobby. We have only been able to go out flying twice with very mixed results but enjoyed every bit of it form the build process to the crashes.
Three weeks ago I went in for a miner surgery but I has restricted my activity and I have not been able to work on the RC planes and or fly. During this time of extreme boredom I came across Adam Savage was talking about is new quad copter and showed the flight log he made and the reasons why.
A log book sounds good to me as I am an Engineer and as my friend stated you know you are an engineer when documentation becomes part of the fun. My through is to create a log book for the flights but also a second to log LiPo batteries as it looks like you need to keep them healthy through good practices My question to you all is what do you think should be in a log book?
Here is what I have at this time:
Flight Log Entry
Battery Log
Thank you for your time and sorry for the long post. –Wes
Three weeks ago I went in for a miner surgery but I has restricted my activity and I have not been able to work on the RC planes and or fly. During this time of extreme boredom I came across Adam Savage was talking about is new quad copter and showed the flight log he made and the reasons why.
A log book sounds good to me as I am an Engineer and as my friend stated you know you are an engineer when documentation becomes part of the fun. My through is to create a log book for the flights but also a second to log LiPo batteries as it looks like you need to keep them healthy through good practices My question to you all is what do you think should be in a log book?
Here is what I have at this time:
Flight Log Entry
- Flight Log Number: - This would be a number to correlate the flight to the battery log.
- Date: - Whey you flew
- Location: - Where you flew
- Plane: - what plane was it, name or type.
- Witness: - who was there with you, I got this from Adam’s book and his reason sound good.
- Time: - time of day
- Duration: - of the flight, current best 20 seconds.
- Battery Log Number: - correlates to the battery log page
- Weather: - current conditions, general
- Wind Speed / Direction: - If you have this info.
- Frequency: - I would think that this would be more for FPV
- FPV: - if yes, check box
- Notes / Incidents: - observations of how your flight went.
Battery Log
- Battery Log Number: - This would be a number to correlate back to the flight log
- Battery ID: - a way to keep track of your batteries, I was thinking for me the date I got it
- Cells: - Battery info
- Voltage (S): - Battery info
- Capacity (mAh): - Battery info
- Discharge Rate (C): - Battery info
- Flight: - correlate to specific flight if not a charge or discharge
- Charge: - if yes, check box
- Discharge: - if yes, check box
- Date: - date of use, charge or discharge
- Starting (V): - to record what you started with overall
- Ending (V): - to record what you ended up with overall
- Start: - the values of each cell up to 6 before you start
- End: - the values of each cell up to 6 at the end
Thank you for your time and sorry for the long post. –Wes