Another Flight. 2 in 2 days!

Well I went out with 2 work mates again.  Once again I just flew 3 cell.  I recorded with both the VRD2 and the RunCam 3.  I've uploaded a video.

It Flies!

It has been months since I've had a fly, but today I had a go.

I charged my 6 x 3S batteries, and my 2 x 4S batteries last night and packed it all into the boot ready for a lunchtime venture during work.

I headed out with a mate to the local oval in my lunch break.  It had been raining this morning (which my work mates joked always happened when I used to put my RC Car in the boot on Wednesdays and they said it transferred to any remote vehicle I intended to use.) but the sun broke through for a few hours, drying the grass and enabling some flight time.

More parts dribble in.

Last friday my QX-70 arrived, and today I've had 3 packages arrive.

First came the Black Pagoda antennas, then the CX-10 charging cable.

After lunch came one of the products I have been waiting for................

An order arrives!

Well from my order the other week, I've had 4 of the 6 antennas arrive.  2 x red and 2 x white.

Still waiting for my other items. They're teasing me!

Cougratulation!

Well I was notified that I won a prize as part of BangGood's 11th Anniversary giveaway.  

Another set of orders.

Well BangGood are having their 11th anniversary funtimes and today at 12pm the last mission goes live.  There are prizes for the first 200 orders.

I've queued up an order of Infinity 4S batteries, CX-10 Charge cable and a 1080P HDMI -> DVI + Audio convertor. (The intended use of this is to be able to use my NES Mini on an old 4:3 monitor that has a standard 3.5mm Stereo input for the built in speakers).

First flight for a while.

So I went out with Rob for the first time flying in about a month.  He came and picked me up and we headed around the corner to a local oval.  Strike 1 - kids playing footy.  3 or 4 kids were playing in the goals so we picked another local oval.

This was better as no one was using it.  I hadn't charged my packs since the last time I flew so I didn't know how much charge I had in them.  They were all above 11.5V so I just thought I'd fly anyway.

It was my first flight test of the VBAT and Buzzer install I had done earlier.  Both of these seemed to work although I couldn't set them up as the CleanFlight version didn't have that functionality.  I heard the buzzer beep but I don't know what it was set to.

I ended up using 4 packs and breaking 3 props.  One was obviously weak and ejected 2 blades when I gave it some schtick!  The others were bent or had white markings from weakness so I just swapped them out.

It was good fun to get back into it again and I have some more work to do to get both my RunCams installed as well as the telemetry mod on my receiver.