I FINALLY got the bird up in the air today and she performed perfectly. It was SO nice to be able to get airborne again after this miserable fiazuckin' winter...
Instead of just trucking out my P2V case, I also carried along my Taranis Plus case and a case carrying my brand new Blade 200 QX and its batteries... While configuring the 200 QX on my Taranis, I broke a blade, bent a blade, scuffed a motor and turned the air a lovely shade of blue...
But now... I was ready to finally air this puppy out. It was a little windy, but after the winter we had... frick it. She's going up. I got her out around sixty feet and up one hundred in stability mode, such a wonderful feeling ... I brought her back down to around forty feet and when I tried to switch into stagility mode... I popped the wrong switch and shut down the props.
What resulted was a very nicely controlled drop that stayed "feet down" all the way to terra firma... Unfortunately terra firma, when coupled with the gravitational pull from around forty feet, resulted in the left landing skid parting company with the main body of the quad.
I brought all the parts and pieces home and used "Gorilla Super Glue Gel" which I highly recommend. I'm not a big Gorilla Glue fan, but this stuff is awesome.
Turns out that the Blade 200 QX is a tough little bird. I have kicked its *** ten times to next Sunday... and she still performs perfectly... and very nicely. I'm slowly becoming a "Blade" fan as I now have two of them.
-slinger
Instead of just trucking out my P2V case, I also carried along my Taranis Plus case and a case carrying my brand new Blade 200 QX and its batteries... While configuring the 200 QX on my Taranis, I broke a blade, bent a blade, scuffed a motor and turned the air a lovely shade of blue...
But now... I was ready to finally air this puppy out. It was a little windy, but after the winter we had... frick it. She's going up. I got her out around sixty feet and up one hundred in stability mode, such a wonderful feeling ... I brought her back down to around forty feet and when I tried to switch into stagility mode... I popped the wrong switch and shut down the props.
What resulted was a very nicely controlled drop that stayed "feet down" all the way to terra firma... Unfortunately terra firma, when coupled with the gravitational pull from around forty feet, resulted in the left landing skid parting company with the main body of the quad.
I brought all the parts and pieces home and used "Gorilla Super Glue Gel" which I highly recommend. I'm not a big Gorilla Glue fan, but this stuff is awesome.
Turns out that the Blade 200 QX is a tough little bird. I have kicked its *** ten times to next Sunday... and she still performs perfectly... and very nicely. I'm slowly becoming a "Blade" fan as I now have two of them.
-slinger
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