Okay, so I should have been better with getting flight videos up. I admit it. It just seems like I can never get anyone to record any of my flights. I could have gone the hat-cam route, but I think having one person fly while another shoots video is a much better idea. In the future, I’ll try to coerce my girlfriend into doing the videography, since she’s already said she would, but I’m worried about what it’ll end up costing me (just kidding, baby). Actually, I enjoyed the editing process, though I’m still getting used to my software of choice (Adobe Premeire Elements 2). Additionally, this is the most I’ve used my camcorder since I bought it 3 years ago, so I’m sure the image quality can be improved.

In any case, here’s a short video (NOT….ten minutes, sorry) of me casually tossing my 600 NSP around this past Sunday. I’m not very happy with the flight as it’s pretty sloppy. It was my first flight in a couple of weeks outside of the sim, it was a bit gusty, and something just felt not quite right with the helicopter. It was falling out of tailslides where it never did before, and I had to keep fighting it to get maneuvers to be recognizable. After the flight, I went over the heli and found out that my flybar was not centered as it should have been.

As I thought back, I remembered the last time I’d had this particular helicopter out. I did a dum-thumb on startup and had a hot start. Nothing was broken and I checked everything out, but the flybar apparently slid over about 3mm. Doesn’t sound like a lot, but it seems to have been enough to make the heli misbehave. I re-centered it and took another flight on the heli, and it was a night and day difference. Unfortunately, I didin’t get any video of that flight. It would have been a better one for sure.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my first foray into heli videos… I spent a little too much time on the start and end credits I think, but it was fun nonetheless. I promise there will be more.