I thought this would be game over for the night, but no.....................
For some reason, about 2 weeks ago, I brought home an umbrella which I found lying at the side of the road. It was one of those fancy ones with a wind vent. The wind vent was held on with carbon rod, about just the right length, and bang on the right diameter.
HOW HAPPY WAS I !!!!!!!!
A quick repair later, and I'm back in the sky, well, about a foot off the ground anyway.
Nothing can prepare you for quite how difficult it is to fly for the first time can it, I find my self overcompensating all the time on the controls, like some sort of instinct.
Anyway, after 2 batteries worth of 3 or 4 second flights, I finally manage about 5 or 6 seconds of stable(ish) hovering before my power dropped too low to gain any useable height.
I'm happy with tonights little session and reckon with loads more practice, it'll come soon enough......
One thing though, since the first time my rotor dug into the ground, every subsquent time it happens, the blade carrier or whatever pops off and reveals a small bearing just under the rotor head, of which there are 2. Most disconcerting as each time this happens, surely its getting weaker and weaker... ?
Anyway, there you go, it works and I can at least get some sort of movement from it.
