Post by cdsloper on Jan 31, 2010 7:40:15 GMT 10
Went up the hill (Beechmont) yesterday and between showers, took the bat for a blat. Even took it over the backside for a few laps and even started to enjoy it. 
;D (By the way I'm definitely a backside virgin but that's another story). There was no-one there, not even any "terrorists" and a fabulous SE. Haven't had the right wind for ages. Anyway, during a shower I set up my beautiful Sig Ninja. The Ninja normally spends it's life as a piece of wall art in my lounge, where in all black covering it makes a great statement along with a naked Stepp3 (can't afford paintings and a good way to solve storage problems). Funny, my other passion is fresh water lure fishing and if ever I get a lure that doesn't catch fish, I "Paint it Black" and it usually works. Anyway I digress, launching and flying the Ninja was awesome. Foamies are a lot of fun but a solid plane flies like it's on rails. I was having so much fun and the black beast was making an even bigger statement darting around the sky than it does on my lounge room wall. But something was missing. Embarrassingly, I probably have more planes than the RAAF so I fly a number of models on any one programme on my six model memory radio. It's how we used to do it in the good old daze before multiple model programme computer radios. For example, I fly four models on my elevon mixing programme.You just manually trim them all to fly the same. One of these planes is a thirty inch electric wing produced by TrickRC, called a Razor. The motor is a 3550kv Align 430L and I run 3 cell lipos. The thing screams like a banshee on speed and will go vertical for ever. Due to the need for wings to run reflex and the large speed range of this "thing", trimming it to fly level, throttle off would have it doing frightening loops at full throttle and big pull ups into scary stalls and spins when you throttled off. I have called this plane "INSANITY" for these reasons. To tame this wild animal I programmed in throttle/elevator mixing that I could switch off when flying the other wings. However I love this mix on the hill. I've set them up so full throttle position has the wing floating almost on the stall and closed throttle is one or two trim clicks off going into an ever steepening dive,(in theory at least). We've all been there where we are zooming around with heaps of down trim and all of a sudden the lift backs off and you're madly trying to click in up trim while at the same time holding the elevator stick. (The old analogue trim tabs were soooo much better for this) I just move the throttle to give me the desired trim/speed I require. I would strongly suggest trying this to anyone flying simple two channel slopies, although I'm sure you guys who fly those space aged carbon kevlar thingies with their camber changing foils etc. etc. etc. have other ways and means of achieving this outcome but it works for me.
;D (By the way I'm definitely a backside virgin but that's another story). There was no-one there, not even any "terrorists" and a fabulous SE. Haven't had the right wind for ages. Anyway, during a shower I set up my beautiful Sig Ninja. The Ninja normally spends it's life as a piece of wall art in my lounge, where in all black covering it makes a great statement along with a naked Stepp3 (can't afford paintings and a good way to solve storage problems). Funny, my other passion is fresh water lure fishing and if ever I get a lure that doesn't catch fish, I "Paint it Black" and it usually works. Anyway I digress, launching and flying the Ninja was awesome. Foamies are a lot of fun but a solid plane flies like it's on rails. I was having so much fun and the black beast was making an even bigger statement darting around the sky than it does on my lounge room wall. But something was missing. Embarrassingly, I probably have more planes than the RAAF so I fly a number of models on any one programme on my six model memory radio. It's how we used to do it in the good old daze before multiple model programme computer radios. For example, I fly four models on my elevon mixing programme.You just manually trim them all to fly the same. One of these planes is a thirty inch electric wing produced by TrickRC, called a Razor. The motor is a 3550kv Align 430L and I run 3 cell lipos. The thing screams like a banshee on speed and will go vertical for ever. Due to the need for wings to run reflex and the large speed range of this "thing", trimming it to fly level, throttle off would have it doing frightening loops at full throttle and big pull ups into scary stalls and spins when you throttled off. I have called this plane "INSANITY" for these reasons. To tame this wild animal I programmed in throttle/elevator mixing that I could switch off when flying the other wings. However I love this mix on the hill. I've set them up so full throttle position has the wing floating almost on the stall and closed throttle is one or two trim clicks off going into an ever steepening dive,(in theory at least). We've all been there where we are zooming around with heaps of down trim and all of a sudden the lift backs off and you're madly trying to click in up trim while at the same time holding the elevator stick. (The old analogue trim tabs were soooo much better for this) I just move the throttle to give me the desired trim/speed I require. I would strongly suggest trying this to anyone flying simple two channel slopies, although I'm sure you guys who fly those space aged carbon kevlar thingies with their camber changing foils etc. etc. etc. have other ways and means of achieving this outcome but it works for me.