1st Successful Flight YKS250

[Michael Fenimore]

So I got my first successful LOS flight out of my YKS250, finally!
The previous 3 or 4 flights resulted in crashes, broken motors, bad ESC, etc, etc, etc.

Installed 4 new Emax 2204/2300kv motors with Emax 12A Simon series ESCs.
All programmed by LibrePilot, for now.

Specs:
250 carbon frame
2204/2300kv Emax
12A Simon series Emax ESC
Matek v3 PDB
CC3D w/LibrePilot
FPV cam - none for now

Until I get very comfortable flying LOS in different rates, I am not jumping into FPV right now.
Soon though!

 

[Jackson]

Not bad.

 

[Michael Fenimore]

Not bad.

Thanks Jackson.
As is my luck, the weather has not been good for flying since that flight.
Keeping my fingers crossed this weekend will give me at least one good day. I have 2 fresh batteries waiting to be used.

 

[Jackson]

I'm quite jealous about all the area you have to fly in, just by stepping out the back door.

 

[Michael Fenimore]

I'm quite jealous about all the area you have to fly in, just by stepping out the back door.

I'm taking as much advantage while I can.
Really surprised the farmer hasn't begun tilling and planting yet. The last 3 years it's been corn.
It's definitely ideal for learning and not too bad when crashing.

 

[RENOV8R]

Quite enjoyed watching that, thanks. You can definitely see a little bit of roll to the right, let us know if you figure out what it is. I live in a small town and I'm lucky that I have a couple big open parks very close to me. Right at the end of the park there is a shooting range (yes contrary to rumours, we do allow guns in Canada) which I try to stay away from. Don't want to be hearing "Yeehaw target practice" hahaha

 

[Michael Fenimore]

Quite enjoyed watching that, thanks. You can definitely see a little bit of roll to the right, let us know if you figure out what it is. I live in a small town and I'm lucky that I have a couple big open parks very close to me. Right at the end of the park there is a shooting range (yes contrary to rumours, we do allow guns in Canada) which I try to stay away from. Don't want to be hearing "Yeehaw target practice" hahaha

Thanks RENOV8R.
The roll was caused by my FC/PDB stack being loose. One of the crashes I had before this flight sheared the nylon screw heads clean off causing the stack to be unlevel so the FC was overcompensating for it.
Since then I have hot glued the stack level again and got 2 more batteries. I hope the weather will cooperate this weekend for a couple more flights.