Well I knew it would happen sooner or later :(

[gt40]

A little too much wind and a rougher than normal landing
Tail section in little pieces,
bent rotor shaft, blades damaged:


Oh well, half the fun is putting it together

[Greebe]

Hey at least you didn't waste high dollar parts (aftermarket/carbon rotors etc).

Which Heli is that?

[Greebe]

I want the iSENSYS Heli.
Met the designer, Chandler Griffin back in Florida Jets in 2005 when he first started up www.like90.com
He's a SUPER nice guy who'll go well out of his way to help anyone out... including answering the phone when a so called "friend" of mine rang him @ 11pm on a Sunday night!

That was before Colin came into the fray and Chandler was trying to persuade his brother (who lives in B.C. on an island in the deep wood with wife and daughter) to give him a hand with this fledgling of a company. With Colin are doing great. Makes rotor blades and is on heck of a Heli pilot. He came up with the iSENSYS heli concept to production in 3 weeks time and is based (if memory serves me correct) on the Logo 14. They used this to help out search and rescue efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina... http://www.isensys.com/

One of the guys @ our flying sight has a Mikado Logo 14 with a Helicam mount and carries up his digital camcorder and camera.

Very nice setup.

psst - we fly only electric

[gt40]

The heli is a Kyosho Nexus 30,
I'm debating wether to throw a crash kit into it and continue to fly it,
or I've got a Hirobo Shuttle sitting in the sidlines waiting for a few servos (which the Nexus would donate) and just wait for the right deal on some spare Nexus parts.
From what I understand the Shuttle is a much more stable heli (even from looking at the build quality this seems evident), so this may be the better way to go.

The iSENSYS looks like a very good camera ship, - looks like a flight stabilisation sensor on the tail shaft. I'm not serious enough to get that level of heli - yet
I've got a 2.4 Ghz mini cam attached to mine, but didn't have it on at the time of the crash - would have made an interesting video .
Just playing with a homemade mount at the moment, with the spare channel on the receiver letting me do some simple panning.

I really should spend more time in the flight sim, thou

What kind of flight time can you get on an electric with a small camera attached?

[cjolley]

...
The iSENSYS looks like a very good camera ship...
...

Here is a camera setup to shoot for.

[Greebe]

Flight times... well all depends on the ship/camera, 10-15 is typical. Bigger the ship the more batteries you can throw at it the longer the flight times yadda yadda yadda.

Which flight sim do you use, I have Reflex XTR and a million scenes / planes / heli's (well not a million but ALOT

[Greebe]

nobody at my field wants me to put a camera on my planes.... would make ya puke with my wild and crazy 3D flying style

Tho have seen one of my planes with a camera mounted to it... camera can be set forward or backward view... the roll rate is dizzying @~1.5/sec.

He should put an FMA Co-Pilot onboard to stablize pitch/yaw on the camera

Good background (foreground?) music with that video

I take my iPod out when I fly from time to time, talk about difficult attempting to choreograph flight to music (and all the crazy predicaments you wind up in

Plane sucking trees, electrostatic power lines and magnetic power poles... blasted things just wanna eat my stuff up

3D foamies are riot

Ok dag nabit, I need to order some bearings after my last face first into the ground (Oh that hurt! snickers

[gt40]

I'm using Realflight G3 for a flight sim, just haven't spent enough time on it (nothing like the real thing )
I've looked at the FMA copilot myself, but I thought it best to familiarize myself without it first.

[Greebe]

sim time is a must.. I have at least a thousand hours and has greatly increased my skill level.

Real life couldn't have said it better. Altho I can add more ouch's to flights in the sim (ie something goes wrong in flight eg servo failure, spar snap, etc.), the last flight on a new plane ended with it spirling into the ground shearing off a wing due to a servo gear crapping out after 30 seconds in the air. Not bad tho, only took ~30min to fix, so all is well

You can crash all day long in a sim and it doesn't cost a dime

Repeat after me, sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time sim time

Ps. Reflex is the #1 rated heli sim on the market atm. There is a new one.. ummm...

FSone made by Hanger 9 which is based on the work of Michael Selig, Professor of Aerospace Engineering @ the University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign. Highly anticipated sim based on the best work done using low Reynolds #'s airflow analysis. The one thing that hasn't been addressed in past research work.

I've even made/modified a couple of planes using some of his data to reduce airflow disruption @ high AOA greatly reducing stalling characteristics immensly. Good stuff

[gt40]

*gt40 starts up his sim software*

[Jon P. Inghram]

Sorry, I just don't see how those simulators can match the real thing... without being able to feel the g-forces when manuvering it just isn't the same as real life.

[lowlifecat]

Sorry, I just don't see how those simulators can match the real thing... without being able to feel the g-forces when manuvering it just isn't the same as real life.

...you could always get someone to throw old nvidia cards at you while 'sim-ing'

[Greebe]

LOL

in R/C there are no G force to be felt, for the most part it's all done by what you see and to a lesser degree by feeling the breeze, reading the sky and the sound from the airframe/engine/motor. Other than that and depending on the quality of the sim there is little difference.

I've heard several people make comment that flying R/C isn't the same as the real deal. I quickly tell that they are completely correct, but add that "real planes" cannot do what these planes/heli's can and even if the aircraft could, no person alive would survive the G forces we put them through.

I do better in "real life" than on a sim, but that's mostly due to not feeling the wind forces. I am more destructive on a sim, but that hardly compares to the damage my wallet feels in real life..., Oh that's gonna hurt comment I utter so often

The "instructor' at our flying field tells me to fly higher when doing these stunts, but there's no fun, nor the challenge, especially when touching the rudder on the ground while in a hover, or knife edges 2' off the ground or dodging the clumps of Johnson grass or hehe you get the picture

Anyone see the Master of Champions when they did the R/C plane competition? The group that lost was actually far better than the team that won. The winning teams choreography was nice, but not difficult, actually quite easy. btw the winning team is from Charger R/C

[gt40]

Ya, 'fly higher'
I tell myself this all the time.
But, as a ground dweller, you always instinctevely head for the earth when you think you are in trouble.
Bad move.
I always tell myself before I go out that the sky is the safest place to be - nothing to hit.
but as soon as I'm in trouble, I try to land it.
Just inexperience, I suppose.
argggg, need....more....time....on....the....sim

[Greebe]