Aloha and Welcome to my small speck of cyberspace! Dec 8, 2010 is the birth date of my blog. Never had one before, but my son encouraged me to have one, and it seemed like a good way to at least keep a log of my RC airplane building and flying. With the initial design kicked off by my son, I'll carry on from here and have fun with it. Now that I have it, I will use it to also keep track of my oil painting efforts, and any other ideas, hobbies, travels, or whatever else that come up. LIFE IS GOOD!

Update on 02/25/2011. It's been a few months since I began this blog, and I am enjoying creating and having it! I like documenting the things I have done in my hobbies, and sharing with my small family. I think Jer and Tad actually view it fairly regularly, as a means to see what I've been up to lately. At worst, it serves as a reference for my own use.

Update on 12/22/2011. This blog stuff is habit forming. My blog is a year old now, and I make an entry about every other day or so as that seems to be the frequency of doing something in one of my hobbies. Like my hobbies, this blog is a lot of fun, and it has become in itself another hobby that I enjoy.

Years are flying by...update on 01/11/2013. Still enjoying maintaining this blog even though hardly anyone sees it. I don't advertise it anywhere or to anyone, and it is mainly just a way for me to keep my own notes and thoughts on my flying, painting, and cars. If a stranger happens upon it, I think it is by pressing NEXT at the top of the current blog they are visiting, lol. It's a great device for me.

August 2014: still here! Took up flying RC helicopters one year ago and got hooked. Had flown micro Helis up to then, but got serious with 450 size for a couple months, then bought the Goblin 500 and Gaui X5 . Also got my Boxster in April 2013. Most importantly, Ariel was born 12/02/12 followed by Skylar 07/20/13, and they are little beacons of joy in our lives. Life is indeed good!!!

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Failure to maiden!

Doggone it, I took the Logo 690SX to maiden today.  First I flew the G500 4 flights, all good.  Then got the Logo on the flight pad, and it misbehaved by tilting over every which way as I spooled the motor up.  Main blades hit the ground and cracked.  That makes them useless, but I tried to spool up again just to see what is happening.  Same result of course, but it showed that the tail was ok, but the main rotor was the malfunction.  So I got it home and hooked the iKon to the laptop to analyze the beast.  Turns out I had the rotor responding correctly to stick inputs, but that can be correct while the self leveling action of the iKon can be wrong.  So as I tilted the head forward, the iKon reaction was to tilt forward some more instead of tilt back to correct the situation.  Same wrong reaction was true for tilting the head backward, or either side.  Bah...I failed to observe the moving slide bars on the xmitter page of the iKon setup menu.  The slide bars moved opposite to my stick movement even though the head tilted the correct way on stick movement but not on the head tilt test.  Anyhow, with enough servo reversing in the xmitter AND the cyclic head page of the iKon menu, it is possible to get the correct head responses to both xmitter input and the head tilt test.  I would have saved myself the aggravation of this issue if I observed the menu better.  Got too cocky from prior successes I guess, as this is my 4th heli to have the iKon FBL, and I did not run into this issue till now.  And so I have ordered a new set of Zeal blades for a mere $95 to replace the stock blades that I murdered through stupidity.  I need those blades to come fast, lol, so I can have a successful maiden to rid myself of this bad taste in mouth!
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