Lately I did not post a lot and it is not because I did not have material to talk about but I just did not have much time. That is mostly due our new born baby Marcus with is now 3 months old but he still has to be fed at night taking quite a toll at our night sleep. The other 3 are a handful and keep me busy from 7 a.m. until they are in bed between 7 and 8 p.m. Eventually, at least that is what we hope, is that they can entertain themselves a little bit more with less fighting but that has to be seen. Slowly but surely we can ask the older two to take on some chores.
That said I will try to post one entry per day (without the weekends) to get back into the rhythm of posting more and often. Because I like to write too much and in too much details I often don't post at all but that is not good for a blog, I think. Let's see how this goes.
To start with it I wanted to talk about my progress with flying the RC heli. For two weeks I did not find time to fly it but this weekend I did it several times. Because I have an electric powered heli with a 2100mA LIPO batterie I can fly for around 10 minutes and then it takes around 45 minutes to recharge the battery. On some occasions I had some gusty wind which requires some fast and decisive counter measures to keep the heli flying safely. I mentioned earlier a heli is not flying in a stable configuration meaning that one needs to constantly control input to keep it stable. It is like a marble on a piece of window glass that you want to remain in the center. The wind just aggravates this by pushing the heli out of his position and can even push it up and I don't like to fly the heli over my head because it is hard to judge its heading.
Still I am now able to fly my heli with ease from 90 degrees to the left and 45 degrees to the right. I am not sure why I have more difficulty to keep the heli under control when it is heading to the right but eventually when I can control the heli in every direction that becomes mute. As soon as I can fly the heli in every direction I will go and fly it in a field or so where I can finally fly the heli overhead without having to fear crashing it into a house.
Have fun - Andy