I'm also waiting for a new episode. Your videos are so entertaining and valuable in terms of knowledge. I hope you are well and you will soon continue with your videos / inventions. Greetings from Berlin (Germany)!
Your worries about the landing gear seem to have been solved. They are taking a beating on that surface. Good video as usual. Thanks from New Plymouth.
Just wanted to say I love every SLICE series They are all beautiful planes that if I had made would be super proud to own and fly. I have also switched to Arduplane as my primary FC software, It amazes me with its dependability and abilities. I actually launched a 600mm wing from a park bench ran a mission and had it land within 8 feet of me and never touched the controller. Blew me away. Anyway just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your content. Thank you!
Big thumbs up! That was so fun to watch. No flying suggestions, learning fixed wing operations with landing gear is coming along nicely. I guess you got tired of hearing all of us go FLAPS FLAPS FLAPS :-) One thing that might help you is something I know you can do more easily than most of us watching: add a pitot tube, and place an LED readout of airspeed on Hopper where you can see it through your goggles. That will allow you to touch down just as you reach stall speed while flying FPV. Watching the ground as you land helps with everything except airspeed, since ground speed != airspeed. Might help you establish stall speed under different flap configurations at altitude as well. Have you considered offering an adult summer camp for radio control pilots? Could include classes on computational fluid dynamics, machine shop practice, composite material model construction, design of landing gear, aircraft structural analysis, advanced C++ programming, GPS localization, Maxwell's equations, and sparrow husbandry.
Awesome! Did you ever think about switching around the cameras for fpv? An interesting perspective plus you would be able to check on wing surfaces while flying etc.
To me, it also appears more obvious when the plane is banking in the rear view. The wing and wheels provide a static reference point to compare the ground to. The clear FPV view doesn't have any references other than the edge of the screen (where our attention isn't). I'm not an expert on such things, but I suspect that change of view could dramatically improve the landing approaches.
Although I haven't tried it, I would expect the view from the tail to be rather poor visibility with the plane in the way, and the FPV feed already being pretty low resolution. @tin no point of reference is needed, full-scale planes are landed without having an external view. Full-scale pilots have depth perception though, which might dramatically improve things :)
hello there i see that your ailerons are also assisting the flap and are acting like more flaps can you breifly explain how you achieve this as im very interested so basically your ailerons are also acting as flaps along side the other flaps is this a mixing or something im just learning the flaps and using 2 channels for ailerons for adjustment purpouse so i was just curious on how you are doing this and how effective do you think this is as i would like to use this feature on one of my gliders that only has ailerons and rudder/elevartor but would like to slow it down on landings so using my ailerons as flaps would help emencely any help would be appreciated cheers and love your videos btw.
Yes, it's a mixing. This plane has three control surfaces on each wing, so what you're looking at in the video are the two center ones (ailerons are outside the view). The middle surface acts as a flap with less movement than the center-most section. If I understand correctly using ailerons as flaps is not a great idea if you don't also have actual flaps toward the root of the wing, because the downward aileron movement will make the wingtips tend to stall earlier and the plane tip to one side.
@@iforce2d great thanks for that insight and i was unsure about your ailerons so i was right they where out of view , makes complete sense now thanks again for the info and love watching your videos very informative,creative and educational, thanks heaps for sharing that with us all , stay safe and be well may your skies be blue and your winds be low , Cheers .
Man, I have to comment on your main landing gear. When I watched you building them I thought, why not use bent aluminum, and I thought you were nuts with the huge tires. But seeing how well the spring action works on the gear and noticing the surface you're taking off and landing on. Well excellent job on the gear. This looks like the best case scenario and I am proven wrong about aluminum gear. You're getting better every airplane....
On a commercial airliner, any sort of "Flap Assymetry" causes cockpit alarms, delayed flights, and engineers running around with worried looks on their faces! In comparison, Farm Hopper handled big flap differences without drama! :o)
Its acting like a full size.... you can see the elevator become more sensitive with flaps down and seems like you could leave some power on as that helps with control surfaces as plane slows down....
i recently watched a talk here on youtube by Spencer Lisenby on Dynamic Soaring i don't remember if you are already using it, but could the locked out flap geometry help you, too?
The flap got cracked in the middle in a previous crash. The fiberglass skin is intact on one side but not the other. th-cam.com/video/5sSSpVsp3-4/w-d-xo.html
Very nice, practice really shows. That left flap servo seems weak, perhaps got internal damage on that first flop, be careful, it might draw more amps than it should and it can pull the BEC voltage below your control circuit and receiver threshold, or completely burning it out, resulting in "unexpected behavior". I would replace both with a bit stronger ones, perhaps a pair of HS-82MG at least.
The servo is ok, it's the flap that's damaged. The servo will break it even more if I don't hold it in the middle to keep it straight while lifting from the lower position.
That flap is messed up!!! A few suggestions that you may consider: 1 fix that flap😂😂kinda obvious 2 on approach to landings , keep some throttle in , it hepls giving more airflow to the elevator , allowing you to ultimately fly at a higher angle of attack on the landing(cut the power when you are approximately 30cm above the ground) 3 put the fpv cam in a place such that you can have some kind of reference do gage the agle between the horizon and the horizontal axis of the plane , you could even mount the camera where the runcam2 is , or maybe slighty fwd
Those are the second flap segments, ailerons are not visible in camera view. But yes, he did try that (lowering ailerons) at first and needed some encouragement on the right path.
Inboard flap is operating at different amounts at least in reference to outboard ones. Really need fixing before it gets you in (belly up) trouble or worse. Think you could ditch those outboard flaps. That u/c certainly does a great job...... 1000 times better than the older video you had on that useless STOL sprung u/c.
@@iforce2d i guess if you have a better mold, it would be alright to make a few like this... if it is only for RC... this guy makes a proper plane with it..
Well you see, i really love the way you built the airplane, but when i fly mines, i use full flaps only at the end, because you can risk a stall. For the general , nice job man!!👍
That was excellent! And I must say, that floppy flap certainly isn't helping, maybe cut it in half and put a carbon brace through the length of it and epoxy it back together? Minimal weight penalty with maximum strength gains. I loved the video and as others have said, we're all in lock-down with the end of the world looming over us, so if you made a longer video of you just putting around, or performing maintenance on the plane, we'd all happily watch that too! Cheers from Canada, eh!
@@iforce2d Good to see you are alive, no new videos and no replies on this latest video, was worried. All this time I didn't remember to check that community page...
Landing FPV will never be as precise as LOS landing...You have far fewer visual queues, speed, distance, angle, decent speed, even wind direction...It's just a fact.
Sill waiting on an update, no hurry. I saw your comment on matts video so I’m just glad your sill around. Hope all is well.
-Andy
2 months without new video, hope everything is alright.
Just realized I hadn't seen anything lately , hope things are ok up there and it's just the weather that's grounded you?
I was thinking the same, hope everything is ok. Saw you are updating community...
you know now we in lock down id happily watch a 20 min vid of you take of and landing in the lovely NZ countryside
I did lockdown or not its my escape LOL
I'm also waiting for a new episode. Your videos are so entertaining and valuable in terms of knowledge. I hope you are well and you will soon continue with your videos / inventions. Greetings from Berlin (Germany)!
Your worries about the landing gear seem to have been solved. They are taking a beating on that surface. Good video as usual. Thanks from New Plymouth.
Just wanted to say I love every SLICE series They are all beautiful planes that if I had made would be super proud to own and fly. I have also switched to Arduplane as my primary FC software, It amazes me with its dependability and abilities. I actually launched a 600mm wing from a park bench ran a mission and had it land within 8 feet of me and never touched the controller. Blew me away. Anyway just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your content. Thank you!
The last landing was beautiful! So smooth and gentle.
I miss your videos. Hope you are safe.
Really cool to watch thanks and it's great having your own flying area! Laurie
Great vid. Keep it up, love watching this. 👍👍
You saved the best landing for last... NICE!! I really want to make one of these, I think it may be your best design yet. 👍👍
Big thumbs up! That was so fun to watch. No flying suggestions, learning fixed wing operations with landing gear is coming along nicely. I guess you got tired of hearing all of us go FLAPS FLAPS FLAPS :-)
One thing that might help you is something I know you can do more easily than most of us watching: add a pitot tube, and place an LED readout of airspeed on Hopper where you can see it through your goggles. That will allow you to touch down just as you reach stall speed while flying FPV. Watching the ground as you land helps with everything except airspeed, since ground speed != airspeed. Might help you establish stall speed under different flap configurations at altitude as well.
Have you considered offering an adult summer camp for radio control pilots? Could include classes on computational fluid dynamics, machine shop practice, composite material model construction, design of landing gear, aircraft structural analysis, advanced C++ programming, GPS localization, Maxwell's equations, and sparrow husbandry.
Great video my friend. Big salute from Slovenia, Pilot Robert
I'm snapped to attention and saluting right back at you, stay well buddy :)
iforce2d fly the shit out of it. Salute
Are you OK Chris??????
4th! Fix that flap. Its causing yaw and also setting you up for tip stalls
I love the area in which you live in. Its really great for flying FPV.
Great plane
You seams to get the hang out off it👍
Thanks for sharing 👍😁
very cool. you need an air speed indicator... do such air speed sensors exist for the rc world?
looking pretty good. doesnt need much room does it?
Great Video! Thanks for sharing this video!
Great job 👍
Excellent
Well done again are you going to produce these it’s certainly an easy one to do and get a name for these
Awesome flight! Like it, good job 👍
I love that little plane it's got something about it!!
This is so much fun to watch!
Another great video. I have to watch twice...once to read your comments and again to enjoy the ride! HAHA
Awesome!
Did you ever think about switching around the cameras for fpv?
An interesting perspective plus you would be able to check on wing surfaces while flying etc.
To me, it also appears more obvious when the plane is banking in the rear view. The wing and wheels provide a static reference point to compare the ground to. The clear FPV view doesn't have any references other than the edge of the screen (where our attention isn't).
I'm not an expert on such things, but I suspect that change of view could dramatically improve the landing approaches.
Although I haven't tried it, I would expect the view from the tail to be rather poor visibility with the plane in the way, and the FPV feed already being pretty low resolution. @tin no point of reference is needed, full-scale planes are landed without having an external view. Full-scale pilots have depth perception though, which might dramatically improve things :)
those flaps look good, real good
it puts the flaps down or it takes off again
hello there i see that your ailerons are also assisting the flap and are acting like more flaps can you breifly explain how you achieve this as im very interested so basically your ailerons are also acting as flaps along side the other flaps is this a mixing or something im just learning the flaps and using 2 channels for ailerons for adjustment purpouse so i was just curious on how you are doing this and how effective do you think this is as i would like to use this feature on one of my gliders that only has ailerons and rudder/elevartor but would like to slow it down on landings so using my ailerons as flaps would help emencely any help would be appreciated cheers and love your videos btw.
Yes, it's a mixing. This plane has three control surfaces on each wing, so what you're looking at in the video are the two center ones (ailerons are outside the view). The middle surface acts as a flap with less movement than the center-most section. If I understand correctly using ailerons as flaps is not a great idea if you don't also have actual flaps toward the root of the wing, because the downward aileron movement will make the wingtips tend to stall earlier and the plane tip to one side.
@@iforce2d great thanks for that insight and i was unsure about your ailerons so i was right they where out of view , makes complete sense now thanks again for the info and love watching your videos very informative,creative and educational, thanks heaps for sharing that with us all , stay safe and be well may your skies be blue and your winds be low , Cheers .
Man, I have to comment on your main landing gear. When I watched you building them I thought, why not use bent aluminum, and I thought you were nuts with the huge tires. But seeing how well the spring action works on the gear and noticing the surface you're taking off and landing on. Well excellent job on the gear. This looks like the best case scenario and I am proven wrong about aluminum gear. You're getting better every airplane....
Man I love watching this one fly.
Looks very good. Is this a commercial design or your own?
my design
th-cam.com/play/PLzidsatoEzeiL7_A1LkLJJ3vThEueL2ZT.html
Você poderia disponibilizar o projeto deste aero.
That last landing was just perfect.
On a commercial airliner, any sort of "Flap Assymetry" causes cockpit alarms, delayed flights, and engineers running around with worried looks on their faces!
In comparison, Farm Hopper handled big flap differences without drama! :o)
Its acting like a full size.... you can see the elevator become more sensitive with flaps down
and seems like you could leave some power on as that helps with control surfaces as plane slows down....
i recently watched a talk here on youtube by Spencer Lisenby on Dynamic Soaring
i don't remember if you are already using it, but could the locked out flap geometry help you, too?
Looks like the port side wing flap is just a minor throw linkage issue. Should be pretty easy to adjust.
The flap got cracked in the middle in a previous crash. The fiberglass skin is intact on one side but not the other.
th-cam.com/video/5sSSpVsp3-4/w-d-xo.html
What kind of video equipment goggles/camera are you using?
runcam racer, eachine TS5840, fatshark dominator SE
Could you make a video about install FPV and set up TX for your plane? I found it too difficult :(((
Absolutely cool to watch!
you made this ,??
Nice job👌👌👌
Come in steeper maybe, then flare?
we want more farm hopper flights !!!
The fpv isnt as easy to judge distance as the tail camera is....
Id have to have that tail camera in my oculus
Are u staying home for cool project? We are waiting for u to show us and our necks are getting longer each day?
I'm mainly working on the sbus mixer thing, coding does not make for good videos.
You flip-flopped your switch flipping and your flaps are flopsided!
Are u ok?
Very nice, practice really shows. That left flap servo seems weak, perhaps got internal damage on that first flop, be careful, it might draw more amps than it should and it can pull the BEC voltage below your control circuit and receiver threshold, or completely burning it out, resulting in "unexpected behavior". I would replace both with a bit stronger ones, perhaps a pair of HS-82MG at least.
The servo is ok, it's the flap that's damaged. The servo will break it even more if I don't hold it in the middle to keep it straight while lifting from the lower position.
@@iforce2d Ah, that's a bummer. Do you see any ways to fix it?
@@sterby1 Yeah I can put a spar in it, just too lazy :)
WHERE ARE YOU!!!! i need my fix!!! LOL I hope you are doing well.
Looks like you just had a bit too much flap, probably overextending the servo. Cool plane though, that property looks amazing too!
This is so cool !!
Have plans?
There are some files here, not sure how useful though: www.iforce2d.net/sketches/stackedSlices/
No new videos lately - is all ok with you ?
yep, just taking a break from filming while I build. Also doing more software programming which is not suitable for videos.
@@iforce2d good to know thanks for the update
Which fpv camera?
Runcam racer
The landing gear is a vast improvement over the STOL plane for sure LOL!!
Looking good now
That flap is messed up!!! A few suggestions that you may consider:
1 fix that flap😂😂kinda obvious
2 on approach to landings , keep some throttle in , it hepls giving more airflow to the elevator , allowing you to ultimately fly at a higher angle of attack on the landing(cut the power when you are approximately 30cm above the ground)
3 put the fpv cam in a place such that you can have some kind of reference do gage the agle between the horizon and the horizontal axis of the plane , you could even mount the camera where the runcam2 is , or maybe slighty fwd
Since I know the camera is facing straight ahead, I can already gauge the angle.
@@iforce2d 👌
2:50 R.I.P. Flaps 😨
In gusty winds ,we don,t use full flaps ,that,s why you had a hard time landing
Come on Chris, we neeed more vids to watch....
You are bringing your ailerons down a bit when lowering the flaps. Try crow braking instead
Those are the second flap segments, ailerons are not visible in camera view.
But yes, he did try that (lowering ailerons) at first and needed some encouragement on the right path.
Inboard flap is operating at different amounts at least in reference to outboard ones.
Really need fixing before it gets you in (belly up) trouble or worse.
Think you could ditch those outboard flaps.
That u/c certainly does a great job...... 1000 times better than the older video you had on that useless STOL sprung u/c.
excelente, saludos desde MÉXICO
Nice
You con always go around! Haha
in regards with the carbon tube connectors, have you seen this video? th-cam.com/video/d4riggc3IZk/w-d-xo.html
Interesting approach, seems like quite some work though.
@@iforce2d i guess if you have a better mold, it would be alright to make a few like this... if it is only for RC... this guy makes a proper plane with it..
Well you see, i really love the way you built the airplane, but when i fly mines, i use full flaps only at the end, because you can risk a stall.
For the general , nice job man!!👍
Want 😍😍😍
That was excellent! And I must say, that floppy flap certainly isn't helping, maybe cut it in half and put a carbon brace through the length of it and epoxy it back together? Minimal weight penalty with maximum strength gains. I loved the video and as others have said, we're all in lock-down with the end of the world looming over us, so if you made a longer video of you just putting around, or performing maintenance on the plane, we'd all happily watch that too!
Cheers from Canada, eh!
P0rt
When you have one notch of flaps it creates lift not drag.
Come on Chris, getting woried about you now......
It's not videos, but I'm posting some random things here every now and then: th-cam.com/users/iforce2dcommunity
@@iforce2d No, don't get the point of that, we need more videos...
@@iforce2d Good to see you are alive, no new videos and no replies on this latest video, was worried. All this time I didn't remember to check that community page...
nice! corona or not, still can fly 😄
Pleas built next time a dog fighter👏🏼
I like it..it''s work horse
Landing FPV will never be as precise as LOS landing...You have far fewer visual queues, speed, distance, angle, decent speed, even wind direction...It's just a fact.
get a gyro jeez
The plane has a full auto-pilot, but as the title says "practice" jeez. Autonomous features don't magically cancel effects of wind anyway.
Nice