The I'm going out flying thread 2016

[Xpress]

Did some shenanigans with the 107" Yak and the 70" Slick yesterday. Love these airplanes.

 

[combat chicken]

Looking ahead to Wednesday afternoon. Hope the forecast holds out!

 

[49dimes]

Looking ahead to Wednesday afternoon. Hope the forecast holds out!

Me too! Fellow fliers and I want to huck some because the forecast has Wednesday as being fairly calm.

 

[ChickenBalls]

Looking ahead to Wednesday afternoon. Hope the forecast holds out!

Bart, we meeting up at field to finish loading up for HOW, but Paul is thinking bout flying tomorrow eve.

 

[combat chicken]

Bart, we meeting up at field to finish loading up for HOW, but Paul is thinking bout flying tomorrow eve.

Hey Donnie. Can't tomorrow. Got a work meeting till at least 5. I'm going to try to shoot for Wednesday.
Wish I was going with you guys to HOW!
Next Year Definitely!

 

[garlandk]

Its really sad the autopilot can almost make better landings than me now.... Its been a long project but I about got her dialed in on Auto Landings. I added a Lidar to it so the autopilot uses the Lidar to judge when to Flare besides using Baro Altitude.

 

[lxcoupe]

I see Jeff playing helicopter chase plane duty.

Wow Kevin, that is really good. Is the laser similar to what we used to use? Is it available off of the shelf?

 

[Flyingjon]

Its really sad the autopilot can almost make better landings than me now.... Its been a long project but I about got her dialed in on Auto Landings. I added a Lidar to it so the autopilot uses the Lidar to judge when to Flare besides using Baro Altitude.

How does it fly the advanced IMAC sequence? [emoji1]

 

[garlandk]

How does it fly the advanced IMAC sequence? [emoji1]

There is an aerobatic mode on this autopilot. I should see what I could do! ha ha!!!

Seriously I have always wanted to put one of these in a giant scale plane, but these autopilots hate vibration and noise. Maybe if I ever get a hold of a cheap 30cc plane I might try it on there and get some good soft mounts for the autopilot and engine.

 

[garlandk]

I see Jeff playing helicopter chase plane duty.

Wow Kevin, that is really good. Is the laser similar to what we used to use? Is it available off of the shelf?

Search Lidar Lite 2. Around $114. Works very similar. Probably not as good what we used, but for our market it gets the job done. I have the baro and lidar altitude displayed on my computer while flying and its cool watching both of them come down. You can tell the lidar is more accurate than the baro altitude.