Nice!! Thank you for the post...

Originally Posted by rogueqd

I added some air ducts today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnwwplzwXe8

The fuse still isn't together, but I'm getting there, lol.

Boy , am I happy to find this thread :-))

Originally Posted by nakelp86

Boy , am I happy to find this thread :-))

Man. I thought you knew about this thread. Welcome.

Hehe, had no idea and was getting frustrated to read over thousand posts on the other one LOL
Starting new blog for power settings for all three planes ( since they all can be interchangeable ) So anyone can chip in there.
Why the blog? Its easier to delete crap posts LOL. will post the link when Im done.
In the mean time got new video from 2 days ago with my beat up Skysurfer ( got more beating up done too) LOL but dont want to post it here so I wont pollute the thread :-)

Just couldn't stay away from the water. Stayed dry this time though.

Dutchess County Chamber Balloon Festival Pics from the Air in RC Plane (6 min 8 sec)

Originally Posted by Maddmax

Just couldn't stay away from the water. Stayed dry this time though.

http://youtu.be/j_MX7ZtwQ2M

video is blocked. Probably due to the music

Originally Posted by Eagle202

video is blocked. Probably due to the music

Yep, you can thank EMI

Had a minor inflight mechanical failure today... My z-bent rudder pushrod pulled through my control horn in flight, luckily it was just rudder, made for a fish taily like flight though, and had a BEUTIFUL landing :P.

On the crappy side though was low and thick cloud ceiling (entered cloud at around 200 meters, and gave up at about 450 meters to find the topside, VERY DISORIENTING! First time I was forced to fly instrument, but that worked out well enough, just came back down to below cloud level .

OK, lets try it again. They didn't like my choice of music.

Dutchess County Hudson Valley Balloon Festival 2012 from RC Plane Skysurfer (5 min 30 sec)

Originally Posted by NorCalMatCat

On the crappy side though was low and thick cloud ceiling (entered cloud at around 200 meters, and gave up at about 450 meters to find the topside, VERY DISORIENTING! First time I was forced to fly instrument, but that worked out well enough, just came back down to below cloud level .

Congratulations! This situation, called VFR flight into IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) kills inexperienced pilots! If you maintained control the whole time you are doing great.

Originally Posted by Reegor

Congratulations! This situation, called VFR flight into IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) kills inexperienced pilots! If you maintained control the whole time you are doing great.

I used my IMU on the OSD to keep level, and the degrees towards home to maintain my orientation... Certainly confusing because you have NO IDEA what direction you are going, even if you are sideways or upside down or diving, you have NO idea other then instruments :P.

Originally Posted by NorCalMatCat

I used my IMU on the OSD to keep level, and the degrees towards home to maintain my orientation... Certainly confusing because you have NO IDEA what direction you are going, even if you are sideways or upside down or diving, you have NO idea other then instruments :P.

That would've been very scarey but soo cool at the same time!
It's help having an artificial horizon (like I spose you have).

I only have a nova osd, but if conditions are calm and SS/bix is trimmed out right, it should keep itself level, just need to use a bit of rudder to maintain heading on OSD and maintain needed climb rate.

I really wanna fly into some low cloud now!

Originally Posted by NorCalMatCat

I used my IMU on the OSD to keep level, and the degrees towards home to maintain my orientation... Certainly confusing because you have NO IDEA what direction you are going, even if you are sideways or upside down or diving, you have NO idea other then instruments :P.

Impressive. I have more respect for you. Most people have no sense of direction let alone be able to follow instruments.

It was a good thing you don't have any mountains in that area.

Originally Posted by sammyc

That would've been very scarey but soo cool at the same time!
It's help having an artificial horizon (like I spose you have).

I only have a nova osd, but if conditions are calm and SS/bix is trimmed out right, it should keep itself level, just need to use a bit of rudder to maintain heading on OSD and maintain needed climb rate.

I really wanna fly into some low cloud now!

To practice you could put tape over the camera lens keep it within LOS and then just use the OSD instruments to keep it level and in controlled flight.

If that is too difficult just go back to LOS and bring it in. Almost like a simulator but in real life.

Originally Posted by Eagle202

Impressive. I have more respect for you. Most people have no sense of direction let alone be able to follow instruments.

It was a good thing you don't have any mountains in that area.

I do! But they don't start for about 2km away from where I fly and in the opposite direction then I usually fly in (because of Fresnel issues with buildings :P).

One thing was for sure, I had no idea the cloud was that thick :P I climbed about 250 meters through that cloud before giving up, I was very close to hitting the RTH switch a couple of times before I decided to just instrument it back, So I just watched the IMU and my compass bearing (headed for myself) and sure enough I emerged from the cloud aiming right at myself nice and level :P.

It does make me feel more confident to do some night flying which I have been really wanting to do.