Straight out 90 deg crosswind gusts. Winds aloft were brisk and tossed the smaller Sukhoi around a little, made some maneuvers with the bigger 30cc MXS-R a little snappy and unpredictable so kept her high. I hate landing from the south over those trees. A down burble in front of the trees and an up burble at the crest of the hill at the end of the runway. As you approach from the east in front of the trees the winds try to drop the plane and roll her into them, then you turn and as you approach the southern end of the runway there is a lift that pushes up up. Have to fly it all the way down. I try to take off a lot of speed on the downwind with flaps 50% if the plane has them, then turn "downwind" which is actually a head wind in the crosswinds, full flaps and make the turn to final which is short. If I come in shorter there isn't enough runway so that's harder still. It's fun, but puckery.
A bit faster with the 2 blade, still not a lot of vertical but better, and she held her own in some strong winds aloft (even flew backwards at WOT briefly). She will keep the 2 blade.
Not a thing to have to tinker with! Worked exactly like she is supposed to!
Beautiful... in every way! Perfect controlled takeoff, flight maneuvers and aerobatics, then textbook approach and landing, after a few rougher approaches, a couple missed and a couple hard planted (no damage). Big plane, fun flier!
A few seconds after the last flight, sweet landing (variable crosswinds), and then shutdown.
Perfect flight.
Happy everyone is going home intact! Loving the 1:40-1:45 oil mix, the planes are coming home clean!
In my continued efforts to stop using NiMH batteries, I took them out of the Sukhoi, and used their Futaba J-connector leads to make a harness with an EC3 again. These too are ancient.
This 2S 7.4V LiPO battery is really a bit big at 4000 mAh, but it's replacing two 2300 mAh NiMH batteries which are heavier. I made a tray to allow the Velcro to pass as the tray under it that held the NiMH had a wire tie, and the Velcro would not pass. This is aft of the CG so I may have to compensate for it, You can see the connectors. The leads hanging off at the top of the pic are the aileron connectors.
Hung the Breitling MXS-R next to its buddy, the MX-Bach.
The only planks that are not in the iX12 and haven't been preflighted for the season are the Cub, Hacker MX2, and the Waco RCGF-USA 26cc. I am not sure, actually, if that Alpha 450 is in it either. Tomorrow I plan to start programming the helis into the iX12.
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