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Beginners Corner > First two tanks!! Still in one piece!

42GPW
Heliman
Location: North Royalton, Ohio

Pretty new at this. Located a couple of very helpful guys on the Pilot locator.. the one guy probably saved me months and $100s of aggravation. I cannot reenforce it enough... get some hands on help if you are just starting out.

Flying Hawk IV, OS .32SXH, Futaba 9CHP, GY401/S9253, S9001s on the rest.

The helpful guy got it up once on a VERY windy day, had to quit though, to windy and COLD. He gave me some good suggestions to fix some things when I got home.

Tried again yesterday, he got it up, tweaked the curves, checked head speed, put it down and gave it to me.

The GY401 locks the tail extremely well, making the rest pretty straight forward. I hovered the rest of the tank without incedent.

Today, took it out in the backyard completely on my own, put on the training gear and hovered a whole tank. What a rush! Started to rain, had to put all the fun stuff away. The weather here sucks.

I can't believe I have not bashed it into the ground. I can already hold a hover in one spot (which I got worked out today, could not keep it still yesterday), but need to work on keeping a steady altitude. I will probably just hover for a long while until my G2 simulator arrives.

This guy and a friend of his really helped me out, this site did too.

Thanks to all,

03-17-2002 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

BladeRunner
Elite Veteran
Location: Ontario Canada. Member of "some sort" s

First Tanks?

Hey, now you're havin' fun.

Well done, now just keep on burning fuel and don't get too cocky!

If you let that happen your heli will bite you in the wallet!

03-17-2002 Over year old.

1UP
Key Veteran
Location: Claymont DE.

AND IT ONLY GET BETTER !!! and maybe we see you on the weekend on the G-2 FUNFLY

james

JAMES
member of the HOT GIRLS thread
If it's worth doing, then it's worth over doing

03-18-2002 Over year old.

HeliinAL
Heliman
Location: Montgomery, AL

I remember those days

42GPW,

I remember when I had just burned 2 tanks... WOW, the exhilaration!!! I remember it like it was last week!!!

Probably because it was...sounds like you passed me.

I can hover a whole tank low or high, but I do cover a little of room. Various circumstances have only allowed me to burn 2 more tanks, but I hope that will change.

Keep it up and us posted on your achievements.

Best of luck,

03-18-2002 Over year old.

Virtual1
Senior Heliman
Location: Waterloo, Iowa - USA

I don't know if you guys are running into this, but what I've found from my practice is that I'm slowly being able to handle more controls at once. My first few flights were spent just managing cyclic... I had to basically stop moving the cyclic anytime I needed to make emergency adjustments to throttle or tail. (but one at a time) Then I started managing throttle too but was always accidentally moving tail when I moved throttle or vice-versa.

Now I'm managing throttle at the same time as I manage cyclic. Still having issues integrating rudder into the mental mix though, thank the gods for heading hold gyros.

Hopefully I'll have all the pieces to the puzzle assembled in another galon or so.

Sim? what sim? we don't need no stiiinking sim!

03-18-2002 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

oldfart
Elite Veteran
Location: Vancouver, Canada

First Flights

GPW,

Well done. The more fuel you burn, the bigger that smile/grin will get