reggy72
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Desperate for some fly time and today was only my second flight I risked a low level flight no greater than on average 40ft and within 120ft radius in Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset UK, the winds were pretty gusty to say the least but the little bird did just fine, it was remarkable watching the Phantom almost lean into the wind to maintain its position. Flying with the wind it absolutely rocketed down the beach, not so fast though against the wind trying to bring her back home, I tried a few altitudes where I noticed the airspeed offered least resistance and generally kept it in this pocket to preserve my battery. I'd imagine the average wind speed must have been 25/30mph with gusts @ 40mph+.
I then went inland a few miles for a little more practise and reached an Altitude of 290ft, it was drifting a little but considering the winds here today I felt comfortable with it up there and I had plenty of space to play with, it only drifted I'd guess by around 10/15ft from its initial straight up launch which I thought was pretty good, unfortunately it started to rain so it was a case of get it down asap and back into its lovely new German made B W hard case.
I only managed about 15 minutes of flight today, but had a thoroughly enjoyable time. The only issue I had noticed today was that my TX I swear was running a solid red light even though it was fully charged and I had no signal issues whatsoever. |
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