I flipped the bird!!!!

After a grueling long day at work, I decided to call my friend Bruce to go fly and fortunately he was anxious to fly also. We met at his house and drove to a private lot owned by his friend and we let loose with the birds and just really enjoyed ourselves. It was a little breezy and being that Bruce in pretty new to the hobby he made me fly first. Also, my heli is a 90-size so it handles the wind a little better. Anyway.....I took the helicopter pretty high in the air and just had some fun with it, I flipped, rolled, did some tornadoes, and some piro-flips. Granted none of these maneuvers were done with the finesse that I would like; but they were done. I know it's going to take a lot of practice and patience (but mainly "stick time") to get back to where I was and where I would like to be; but I'm a pretty patient guy.

So after my flight, I told Bruce it was his time to fly. He took his Sceadu up and flew it around quite well. He was working on some maneuvers that have been giving him some trouble. As his flight was going on I could see that he really was picking up on where he was going wrong. Toward the end of his flight we was started to get a little flustered, so he decided to just do the things that he's comfortable with. (Good idea Bruce)!

Bruce also wanted to fly his T-rex 450 a little bit, so he jumped on the flight line and took off with it. Having never seen one of these machines fly in person I was very impressed with its responsiveness. He wanted me to fly it and get a feel for how it handled so I took over and hovered it around, then did some figure-8's and flew in a normal flight pattern a little bit. This machine really flies good. I'm not trading my 90 in for one just yet though. Nothing beats the big-block for me!

I flew once more after all of Bruce's excitement and during this flight I worked on some more of the 3D maneuvers and also worked on my autos some. I need to figure out why I am having some problems with my autos but it might just be that I haven't done them in so long. I'm sure it will come back to me very soon. Hopefully.

Once we were done flying we were chatting with the nice gentleman who lets us use his land to fly on and he told us that he has a Jet Ranger II in his shed. So, being the helicopter enthusiast that I am, I had to have a look. WOW! That was impressive! Talk about your ultimate transportation machine. I'll be posting pics soon.

Anyway.....next time I go out and fly I'm gonna get some videos and post them for the world to see. Now I just have to figure out how to record video and fly 3D at the same time!!!!

Thanks for taking me out to the field Bruce. We'll have to do it more often.

See you at the field!

~Steve