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Title: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: santhosh on February 01, 2010, 10:19:09 PM hi all
maidened my cularis yesterday,launched by one of the expert in our group. i am able to fly it quite comfortably aftr sometime, being such a huge dlider orientation was not a problem so kept on flying without looking onto the surroundings,realised too lately whn my controls are not responding to the stick movements, i was flying close to the 220 kv ht line, u can see it in the videos ( or my poor piloting abilities :headscratch: :headscratch:),finally touched on the ht line and down :banghead: :banghead:................anyway multiplex rocks no severe damage :thumbsup: pls watch the crashing videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znYueF0bDXU santhosh Title: Re: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: sahilkit on February 01, 2010, 10:45:12 PM {:)} hey can you post some info on the setup u are using !
Quote kept on flying without looking onto the surroundings,realised too lately whn my controls are not responding to the stick movements, i was flying close to the 220 kv ht line ;D....same thing happened to me today evening, accepted the model ended up in tree as i could not make out the models depth with the surroundings :banghead: Title: Re: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: atul_pg on February 01, 2010, 10:48:57 PM Hi Santosh,
Great stuff..Love that bird.. I think it was not a good idea to fly near the High Tension line man..the radio was glitching as far as I can make out.. which radio are you using ? Go in for slope flying :) Do the normal routine check ups... but I bet it would be hard to fly this amazing huge bird.. Title: Re: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: izmile on February 01, 2010, 10:49:34 PM Congrats on the new model. You must be very lucky to get away with it. Just be very cautious around HT lines. They can fry your plane. Or worst if any of the authorities see you flying close to these lines you may end up facing something that you might not expect.
Title: Re: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: anwar on February 01, 2010, 10:50:40 PM Well... it is mostly good :thumbsup:
realised too lately whn my controls are not responding to the stick movements Did you say you lost control completely, or you just could not maneuver it enough to avoid the accident ? Did you have controls after it came down ? It was not a radio issue, right ? Title: Re: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: santhosh on February 02, 2010, 09:58:51 AM i dont think it's rx a issue,what i felt was plane was not responding corrrectily to the stick movements( still thinking it's my fault) whn it was flying near the ht lines,aftr the crash all the contols were working ok, but to make it clear i have to make ground range test also because i had a similar incident long back whn i was flying my firebird commander and after that crash all the controls were working fine but the range is reduced to abt 20 meters( radio 27 mhz), will be flying the cularis next weekend
santhosh Title: Re: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: santhosh on February 02, 2010, 10:03:07 AM looks like a simple huge glider but its the most difficult one i have ever flown
santhosh Title: Re: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: anwar on February 02, 2010, 10:54:01 AM Yep. That is what I read too, and this is why I heard that people are doing advanced setups like butterfly brakes and flaperons on the flaps so that even the flaps help with turns by acting as ailerons.
Waiting for your next video. Wanted to see how well/fast it glides during landing. Title: Re: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: santhosh on February 02, 2010, 11:14:07 AM tried a lot to program the butterfly brakes on my dx7,no luck .ended up with flaps only
santhosh Title: Re: Multiplex cularis maidenflight Post by: anwar on February 02, 2010, 12:40:17 PM tried a lot to program the butterfly brakes on my dx7,no luck .ended up with flaps only Let us discuss this on the other thread : http://www.rcindia.org/electric-planes/setting-up-a-glider-with-dual-aileron-servos-and-dual-flap-servos/ |