Marty72
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I watched your whole flight video @Marty72 and you were flying great! Only thing I’d recommend is more altitude. Don’t feel bad about crashing though, I consider myself a pretty advanced pilot (until I see someone really good😂). And I needed up with this... she’s fixed and ready to go though. @BATTLEAXE you are right, super tough. My power pod was wiggling a lot, like a LOT and she still flew great. @SquirrelTail my mini scout probably weighed more on its maiden than yours did after all your crashes. Using 9 gram servos and a 1500 mah 2s is heavy! Still tons of fun to fly though. That’s why my wings folded twice. The cause of the crash was I took it way up and popped it upside down. Problem is 3 channel ret don’t like flying inverted, and although I was full up, I traveled straight down in an EPIC crash. Only electronics left I. Te plane were the glued servos, and there was a spray of parts that flew out. Even popped the cover off the receiver!!! Too bad I didn’t get it on vid. Got video of earlier flights that day and old speedster flights that I’ll post on the “what did you fly today” thread... Here’s the CRAZY part - this was a full speed nose dive straight into the ground from high up, and te propeller didn’t break. I’m not joking. It was crazy. All the electronics ejected from the airplane, and the nose is what took the hit - the wing is undamaged. Goes to show how good the HQ 9x5 prop I trimmed down to a 5x5 prop is. That’s not the first nosedive it has survived, but by far the most brutal. It was a crazy crash - worth it for just watching it hit and seeing the parts spray out😂
Thanks Hanger for the nice comments, but I do need more practice. I'm hoping to find a better field with more space and work on flying much higher. The Scout does seem to really fly nice, I may mess around with the Dx6e and make a custom rate setting for the ailerons (can't remember the term you RC folks use,Mix rates maybe?). The ailerons even at 70% give me far more range than I need to fly right now. The elevator is fine for me as is. I haven't even touched the rudder other than for trim. My thought is maybe 50 or 60% aileron range with 30% expo and after I stop flying so erratically, I can move towards full range, If I get the bird up and don't like it, I can flip the switch back to my standard low rates. I would take off in the rates I already know, and try this custom rates at elevation. (Just a thought right now). The cubs ailerons at 100% rates don't do what the Scout does at 70%.
Boy, you really did auger that thing into the ground. The beauty of light small planes, is they are exponentially tougher. But still, they have limits.