A final flight for the weekend at Heli Heatwave and a big Happy Birthday to my Daughter Gabrielle who turns 20 today :) Love you Muppet
Similar manouvres as yesterday, but at the other end of the field. So Loops, rolls, flips, inverted hovering and rainbows.
The battery life of the receiver pack has improved dramatically. Previously I was only able to comfortably get two flights from the battery before it needed charging and was down to about 40%. Since replacing the tail servo - changing from the savox to the BK Servo, I could probably get four flights on the old 3000ma packs. After the three flights over the weekend and not unplugging the battery over night, I only used 45% of the pack, so effectively halving the consumption per flight.
Another eight minute flight
Nigel has been involved in the IT industry for over 35 years, during this time, he has been involved in most facets of the industry. These include, Software engineering and Analysis, networking, software development, PC and server assembly, Systems Engineering.
Outside of his career, his main hobby is Radio Controlled vehicles. Starting in 2002 with his first Nitro car - A Traxxas Nitro Rustler, progressing to 4wd off-road buggies, Helicopters, boats, planes, gliders and most recently, quad copters. He was one of the founding "resurrectors" of the Radio Controlled Off-road track in Morphett Vale, South Australia where he raced for seeral years.
Currently (besides flying planes, gliders and helicopters), he is building a 77" PT17 Stearman based of plans drawn by Nick Ziroli.