I was really grouchy yesterday it had been like 5 days of solid grey clouds and wet miserable weather. Every time I thought I could slip out to fly packing up my car it would start to rain again.
So yesterday some friends texted me they're going out flying and the weather was mint so I shot over all angry full of piss and vinegar lol. I had just installed a modified setup from another member here helped me out to try and make the bird feel a little less jittery on the elevator.
My god she was flying nice !! I was gaining confidence doing things for the first time in real life all proud of myself like smooth controlled inverted circuits forwards flight. I was charging and flying back to back. On flight 6 I got really cocky and started trying pyro flips only about 20 feet off the ground and it wasn't going so bad I was trying to maintain steady rudder input and doing half pyros keeping it tight. I'm okay from right side up to upside down but I have very little practice from upside down back to right side up.
Anyways, it went bad fast, starting dropping and pyro ing not horizontally but sort of vertically. It all happened in under 2 seconds, I basically gave up and hit throttle hold about 8 feet before it went into the cornfield. I don't have enough muscle memory yet to hit self level and pitch up so I think what I'm gonna do is relocate self level to my throttle hold as it seems that what I do in a panic and I'll move throttle hold to the left side.
I was on, and still am on such a high. Not upset in the least bit. And to really sweeten the deal man the Goblin 570 is a great bird to crash , thats two for two now. Minimal damage. In this case as best as I can see I need a set of main blades as one is damaged, and I may need a one way bearing. May need. I feel a tight spot. Could just be the bottom pulley is sort of lodged on a slant and needs to be released again.
Sweet !!
10-23-2014, 09:08 AM
Flying so good I crashed :D
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