Place: Halle
Tanks flown: 2
Time flown: 1h00 (cumulative model timer: 30h52)
Rx battery recharged with: 272+392+overnight trickle mAh (again)
Tx battery recharged with: 489+overnight trickle mAh
Glow heater battery recharged with: 1473 mAh
Starter battery recharged with: 498 mAh
Comment:
Before this flight, I adjusted the pitch and throttle curves and activated the IdleUp2 position. This is the updated table from before:
| Stick | Normal | IdleUp 1 | IdleUp 2 | IdleUp 3 | ThrHold | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitch | Throttle | Pitch | Throttle | Pitch | Throttle | Pitch | Throttle | Pitch | Throttle | |
| 0% | 38.0% | 0.0% | 12.5% | 10% | 12.5% | 57.5% | INH | 10.5% | 0% | |
| 25% | 44.0% | 14.0% | 32.0% | 22.5% | 32.0% | 36.0% | 30.0% | |||
| 50% | 50.0% | 22.5% | 50.0% | 28.0% | 50.0% | 28.0% | 50.0% | |||
| 75% | 65.0% | 36.0% | 65.0% | 36.0% | 65.0% | 36.0% | 65.5% | |||
| 100% | 80.0% | 57.5% | 82.5% | 57.5% | 82.5% | 57.5% | 100.0% | |||
| Governor | Off | 1650 | 1700 | N/A | Off (override) | |||||
Today was the first day with reasonable weather. It was still windy, but almost no gusts.
Had some trouble starting the engine. Turns out there was some dirt in the needle of the carburator. Simply turning the needle a bit (5 ticks) open, starting the engine and returning the needle to its original position solved this issue (although it took me more than 30 minutes to figure it out).
No spectacular flight for this first time, just some hoovering in different directions. The second flight was a bit more entertaining: I rehearsed my stall-turns and tried some standard patterns, which was quite a challenge in these (cross)wind conditions.
