And in the mail today

[tim]

1 Costco Copter.

First flight is gonna have to wait til tomorrow. I'm off to visit my 90 y/o father in law who is having a pacemaker installed today. Hope the radios don't interfere with its operation

[tim]

So I started this one up late last night and decided that indoors might not work for me. It's quite a bit faster than the S032.
What I did notice was how unstable it was in comparison. I believe part of it is the missing flybar weights. I'll fix that soon. My father flies fixed wing RC and has lots of goodies over there. I also noticed what I believe is some TBE. Not a lot, but will not hover stationary like the S032. Trim is as far to the right as it will go, and almost takes away the spin. It is manageable.
I took it outside this morning, -10 C and no wind to get a better feel. I got it off my deck, over the rail to go into the backyard and then a hard pitch to the right, nose down and it was into the rock garden 10 ft. below in about a second.
Nothing broken so I move out to the grass and try again. Get it into the air and man is this radio ever glitchy. Starts going up and I back off the throttle and she keeps going up. Completely let go of the throttle at about 30 feet and it keeps going for maybe another 1 or 2 seconds then starts to fall. Full throttle again to counter the fall, and manage to save it just before it hits the ground.
I learned a lesson, I'll try again. I manage to get it to hover at about 8 feet but this thing will not listen to my input. It's got a mind of it's own.
I'll be trying another battery in the transmitter as a first step. Second will be a trip to my flying field. The Catholic church hall. Nice and big, and definitely no air movement

[tim]

New battery solved many problems. I'm thinking that dollar store batteries the wife picked up were a bad idea.
Had much more success second time around, and am now flying this throughout the house without problems. This is a fun heli to fly!

[wackedrc]

Congrats on getting everything up and running!!