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@@julianhumphrey4843 hi Julian, thought you had stopped flying??

@@terrymurphy562 not giving up completely but dont fly very often now

@@mcmediaandfilm glad you enjoyed it, it took me about 45 mins for me to get to it from Preston. It is a great place and will defo be going back.

@terrymurphy562 it's a top place mate , was up there only last week on the other end of Pendle

@ it is a top place. We are doing the other side of Pendle Hill on our next trip out there. Lovely place.

@@Caroline_Tyler it is a lovely place. The weather was perfect.

@terrymurphy562 it looked gorgeous!!!

@@abc-ku3rx got lucky with the weather Brod. Really nice place.

@@olayideadedokun8090 thank you Ola, the weather was so nice for this time of year.

@@robtraynor6753 thanks Rob, it was a really nice place. Where is next???, plus you will have your new camera.

@@olayideadedokun8090 thank you Ola.

We had a good day Brod. Nice place.

@@robtraynor6753well worth the visit Rob, where’s next???😀

@@Caroline_Tyler one for the future. You will like it.

@@Caroline_Tyler it is a lovely place. I enjoyed it.

@@JakeBullit123 Ha ha that’s right. Love Spoktra50. Probably where it come in my mind from. 😋

@@Caroline_Tyler Defo not but I have had 115mph out of it on quick bursts. Just not good to push my 21700s that much.

Always get drawn in by the the Dyke! Sounds spool wrong. lol. Great footage as always.

Ye they are Rob, that was done on 200mw as well, few mile out that from the Gala field.

@@robtraynor6753 cheers Rob, just wish our chase footage from the other camera would have come out good.

@@julianhumphrey4843 thank you Julian. Glad you liked it.👍

@@JakeBullit123 ye jake, up out the way. Easy to lose signal in those Ravines/brookes.

@@blackbirdboy1 ye it’s a cracking Album Steven. Hoping to get a flight in with you soon. 👍

@@Caroline_Tyler thank you Caroline.

@@abc-ku3rx thanks Brod.

Cheers Tony, it is a nice place to fly and not to far away. We was going to fly from the road but we decided to have a little Hike up the Hill.

@@blackbirdboy1 ye I noticed a few clips through the video was lagging, not sure why.

@@olayideadedokun8090 thank you Ola.

@@abc-ku3rx it was a really calm evening and a bit of a change from the field.

@@robtraynor6753 ye it was a nice evening Rob, will do it again when we get decent weather and maybe somewhere different. 👍

@@abc-ku3rx not bad considering it was getting dark and there’s no stabilisation.

@@julianhumphrey4843 hi Julian, using a sunnysky 2216 v3 with 8x6 prop.

@@robtraynor6753 ye they are not bad for 720p 2 1/2 miles out.👍

This is where they sometimes hold the championships for the car racing.

@@blackbirdboy1 it was the 4500 lithium-ion pack. Nice batteries.

@@terrymurphy562 You were pulling 15A after you had pulled over 2000mah and it still idn't sag that much. Impressive. Molicel's?

@@blackbirdboy1 ye Molicells and they hold up well. I think average speed was about 63mph as well. Really good set up on the penguin. Brods penguin is also an Excellent set up. Very similar and thought out by Brod.

@@terrymurphy562 You two do seem to buy the same models. That's a good thing. If you both fly the same model with pretty much the same set up, then flight times should be close, so you can follow each other easier. Though I will say the chaser nearly always uses more battery following. Especially if you get close behind in there prop-wash.

@@blackbirdboy1 ye in all fairness Brod has these models before I get them, when I see his set up and how efficient his plane are then it makes sense to go with that set up. The penguin is identical but the funjet was exactly the same but Brod a slightly different prop on his. I need a similar set up to be able to keep up with him. Prop wash will defo make you use more battery for sure and you are more on the sticks as well. At times my plane is about 4 or 5 feet behind.

@@pavelgurenchuk2225 it is stock setup using a 5s lipo, had around 10 flights.

@@pavelgurenchuk2225 Acro

@@Caroline_Tyler we share the land with North west Nitro and a fishing club. Only have a limited amount of members on here. Nice location 10 mins from home.

@@terrymurphy562 Would love to join you for a flight or two

@@Caroline_Tyler why not, I can have a word about it with the other members about the ability to fly on the grounds. If there’s a problem with that then there are places close by we could fly at. I look forward to it.

Hi Julian, my Penguin is the latest Penguin, really like the way it flys. Real easy plane to throw in the Air and so nice to fly. Why won’t you fly the Alpha strike?

@@terrymurphy562 Im about done with flying, i got the alphastrike to see if i can get a bit of interest but clearly not. Not flown a plane in nearly a year

@@julianhumphrey4843 it does sound like your flying days have come to an end.

No sunshine but it looks like I needed a light Nd filter as the sky is fairly bright. Weird sky.

@@terrymurphy562 yes did look a bit washed out,can you not adjust white balance on runcam.

@@abc-ku3rx you can but I would normally just put an Nd filter on and it sorts it out.

@@flyingtonyw yes a catchy tune Tony. I bet the molicells are a long way on from those from 20 years ago. 45amps and the latest ones are 50amps. They are the best batteries to have I think.

@@tachyonpost1472 thanks for the input, it looks like a stall but I have had Rth a few times on the plane and it responded very well. When the plane turned to come home and went into failsafe, the plane was pointing into wind although a very light wind. I was very surprised it done this. I will have a good think about the settings.

@@terrymurphy562 Yeah its a pitty you dont have OSD for the last phase (or blackbox) , that could have realy helped figuring this out. Its a complex topic. Sad for your loss and good luck with the rebuild

@@tachyonpost1472 that’s right it would help greatly. 👍

I now know what the problem was. I placed the Flight controller in another Plane and and induced a failsafe, the plane acted the same as when the original plane crashed but this time I had my vision unlike when I had the crash. In my screen it says move sticks to take control and that’s when I knew the problem. On the crash flight I had no vision and have obviously had movement on the sticks but was unable to see the plane attitude. Never had that situation before so have learned something. Thanks for your inputs.

Hi Julian, tested everything on the plane like servos, engines and esc. Everything works as it should.👍

@@robtraynor6753 very possible Rob but all servos work perfectly.

@@NigelWilliams-ui6jx I was at the field. Found plane in Stalmine.

@@JakeBullit123 No both props was on the plane. Probably sounds rough because of the Fc taking over from manual flight and changed the RPM to change the Altitude???

Very strange. So did it crash soon after F/S or head back for a while first? I've had a couple of sketchy F/S in the past which I attributed to it loosing signal then getting it back, loosing, back again etc which I think upsets the FC/INAV but it's never crashed me. I take it you never got your Rx link back? You did get some good distance out.

@@blackbirdboy1 within a few seconds of Rth but never got the signal back to controller or goggles.

@@terrymurphy562 Was the Rx antenna on the rear of he plane? Does tend to be when it turns around you can loose Rd link. But doesn't explain why it didn't just initiate F/S and return home. Which version of INAV?

@@blackbirdboy1 Antenna is towards the rear of the plane. Using latest version of inav. I even tried Rth before I headed out.

I just think the battery had gone bad, never had that happen, it fell rapidly for it to be anything else. I do think the li-lon packs are the way to go though and in the process of making a few packs up. 👍

I am tending towards that as well. I had a couple of hard landings (cough- crash) with the same battery pack. Lesson learned about reusing beat up battery packs. I am currently setting up a small backup battery system that will switch over for a few minutes of power to get down safely. The esc’s won’t be powered but I will surely be able to glide her to a ditch point via Fpv. I also have a gps tractive device for locating. Well worth it

@@skupper672 the only problem with the battery backup system is the Adding of more weight. Also my battery pack only had around 15 cycles. GN3 lipos, very good lipos at that. I was surprised. Good luck.

Hi Steven, no it has only been cycled around 15 times. Top quality lipo, plane is ready to go again.

You are probably right. I have been able to recharge the battery and will give it a few tests with some proximity flying but I agree that they don’t like it. Thanks for the input. 👍

It wasn’t a lot of damage but it did snap the carbon spar, I had a spare from another plane . Always keep your bits from other planes. 😋

@@terrymurphy562 Wow. Snapped the spar. Who'd a thunk it. Was only a hard landing.