Stakabo's Blade CP flight Journal

Learning to fly a RC electric helicopter.

July 16, 2006

Flight No 25


Nice flight at my wife's mom. Drained both battery.

i have to say that my bird is less stable then it used to be ... i have to fight with the tail now ... And it has this tendency to over compensate when the heli move around... Maybe too much gyro gain ? I'll have to watch those instruction video on how to set it up properly ... http://www.funscale.com/

July 15, 2006

Flight No 24

Today i changed the main blades, lubricated the rotor head and also readjusted the trim pot. i took all of my 2 battery to adjust My blade CP properly but now it fly super stable. Maybe more adjustment on the Gyro gain ... Not sure but I'll see next time...

The weather was nice. No wind (are almost). i hope that tomorrow will be like today. We are going at my wife's mom for her birth day. I'll bring the bird and hope it's not windy ...

July 11, 2006

Flight No 23

Beautiful weather tonight. No wind. Just perfect to fly !

drain both battery and made a 5 minute Hover. So now that i can keep my heli in the air, I'll start practicing Hover over the same location. i bought some chuck to make a big target on the ground (as you can see in picture in the previous post).


hope the weather will be nice to fly tomorrow !

Flight No 22

The wind stop for a second. i got the bird ready, went out, got ready to fly and lift off.

then the wind came back.

i had a couple of minute hover ... But nothing much.

i did not even drain a full battery.

hope the wind will calm down tonight !

July 10, 2006

Flight No 21


Nice flight tonight. Drain both battery. I'm trying to hover on the same location for a long time. It's hard. Special that there was a little wind.

i guess practice make perfect !

video shot by my wife.

(no my kid is not too close. The camera angle does not show that he is a good 20 feet away.)

July 05, 2006

Flight No 20

Blade change

Hard flight. A little wind tonight. My Blade CP is very hard to control when it windy, even if it's a only a little wind.

about 1/2 half on the battery, it started raining again and that was the end of Flight No 20.

i hope the weather will improve. So far summer is rainy and windy here. Nothing like last year

July 02, 2006

Flight No 19

Quick flight with the Beau frere just before the night and the rain. i had a couple of hard landing. i was on grass. i used to landing on hard surfaces. Make a big difference when landing/taking off.

i think i will change the blades now. They are the same set from flight No 6. They makes the heli shakes a lot and it makes it harder to control.