I rarely crash. Maybe I've been lucky? I had been ignoring a bug for the longest time only to have it occur just as I was over the trees ready to land. There was no time to recover. Continue

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Ever fly on days you know you shouldn't? Trees were swaying, and my gut was saying no. But I guess you never know until you try. I'd have to say that I couldn't fly in this wind. The ground track of the aircraft was so unintuitive, especially on landing. At times it was just hoovering overhead making minimal progress.



Days like this that really test your autopilot.



Anyway, this video shows my full auto-landing sequence, complete with the dive from 180… Continue

Doomed flight is here:







Hobbypartz.com has great prices and great motors. I think. But for some reason I seem to be having some very bad luck frying motors lately.



I've been running one of their 450TH motors rated for 230 watts (http://www.hobbypartz.com/45oubrmo6.html) at exactly 230 watts, and haven't had much issue with very short bursts at the 230 figure of 40 seconds or less for… Continue