Post by majormonogram on Mar 27, 2010 19:47:13 GMT 1
Well, I am sure that some of you guys who saw my somewhat uneventful maiden were probably waiting for this.
My son woke me up at 7 this morning and it was surprisingly calm outside. The wind has been blowing steady at 30mph for 2 days and is again now. At 7 though it was pretty calm; so I thought.
I have a park right next door to and a school right behind my house so my wife, my son, my niece and I all walked over to the park for a flight. I really wish i had a video but we forgot to put the sd card back in the camera.
So I attempted my first ROG takeoff and taxied off the concrete into grass only to nose-over. 2nd attempt i had a smooth take-off and it felt great! My wife was pretty impressed as well. The entire first flight went perfect except I noticed the wind was blowing a lot harder than I initially thought. the landing went well but almost as soon as the wheels touched down it nosed over.
Changed batteries and did another text book takeoff and flight. The wind at this point was blowing hard enough to make the cubby hover unless i pointed the nose to the ground a little. This landing was perfect and in the grass. It stayed on its feet and rolled to a stop. I got caught doing a little tiger woods esque fist pump by some old guy walking his dog. lol kind of embarrassing.
Without even thinking about it I did a ROG takeoff into the wind and flew around a little more. (This park is really too small for the cub but there was almost no one around so it worked out ok.)
Since I was probably almost out of battery I decided to bring it in for another landing and since I had one good one I assume I am an expert at this point. The landing didn't go very well and I got close to the ground and pull up hard. just as I did the wind grabbed my cubby and I nosed down really hard from about 15 feet onto concrete. Here's the picture evidence:
OH! And I forgot to mention; the battery flew out of the plane and landed about 10 feet away!
At this point I have taken the plane completely apart. One of the servo arms broke in the crash as well. Parts on order already include the spinner, firewall, gearbox, servo arms, a cowl and some more decals.
While I have it all apart I may attempt to ultracote it and do all of the mods I can to make it as indestructible as possible. Thanks for all the tips you guys have already posted on this forum that are gonna make my cubby as nice as it can be.
\\edit: forgot to mention. 1. no I did not have the strap on the battery it was all just stuffed in there...lol. 2. while i was resoldering some connections and taking my cub apart i dropped the fuselage....onto...the soldering iron!!!!!!!!!!!!
My son woke me up at 7 this morning and it was surprisingly calm outside. The wind has been blowing steady at 30mph for 2 days and is again now. At 7 though it was pretty calm; so I thought.
I have a park right next door to and a school right behind my house so my wife, my son, my niece and I all walked over to the park for a flight. I really wish i had a video but we forgot to put the sd card back in the camera.
So I attempted my first ROG takeoff and taxied off the concrete into grass only to nose-over. 2nd attempt i had a smooth take-off and it felt great! My wife was pretty impressed as well. The entire first flight went perfect except I noticed the wind was blowing a lot harder than I initially thought. the landing went well but almost as soon as the wheels touched down it nosed over.
Changed batteries and did another text book takeoff and flight. The wind at this point was blowing hard enough to make the cubby hover unless i pointed the nose to the ground a little. This landing was perfect and in the grass. It stayed on its feet and rolled to a stop. I got caught doing a little tiger woods esque fist pump by some old guy walking his dog. lol kind of embarrassing.
Without even thinking about it I did a ROG takeoff into the wind and flew around a little more. (This park is really too small for the cub but there was almost no one around so it worked out ok.)
Since I was probably almost out of battery I decided to bring it in for another landing and since I had one good one I assume I am an expert at this point. The landing didn't go very well and I got close to the ground and pull up hard. just as I did the wind grabbed my cubby and I nosed down really hard from about 15 feet onto concrete. Here's the picture evidence:
OH! And I forgot to mention; the battery flew out of the plane and landed about 10 feet away!
At this point I have taken the plane completely apart. One of the servo arms broke in the crash as well. Parts on order already include the spinner, firewall, gearbox, servo arms, a cowl and some more decals.
While I have it all apart I may attempt to ultracote it and do all of the mods I can to make it as indestructible as possible. Thanks for all the tips you guys have already posted on this forum that are gonna make my cubby as nice as it can be.
\\edit: forgot to mention. 1. no I did not have the strap on the battery it was all just stuffed in there...lol. 2. while i was resoldering some connections and taking my cub apart i dropped the fuselage....onto...the soldering iron!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like you got the repairs under control though. Most of my landings have been on grass for that same reason. I've gotten to the point where if I have some concrete to land, it would be pretty smooth, but I'm still working on my spot landing (landing on a specific spot).
Yeah, keep your chin up. That's the cool thing about all of this is that everything is pretty much fixable/replaceable. d**n...and the soldering iron too!?!? 
. lol They charged 8 bucks for priority air, btw. 
Lesson learned there for sure.