I went out this morning and made a mount for the compass, that is it on the post with wire wrapped around it. I put on two new props and took it out for a test flight. The GPS mode worked great and it hovered right over the driveway even though the wind was blowing. Dennis got a surprise as he came up the road. We got his helicopter out and I trimmed it out for him. Then we headed in to warm up and I started a video of a fly-in going and we watched the whole thing. I sent him home with some videos of several events around the country.
After Dennis left, I had lunch, then I went out to fly the quad some more. Vera took a bunch of pictures of it for me and I demonstrated the RTL (Return To Launch) mode to her. It works great, it flies back to where I started, slowly comes down and then shuts down the motors. I still have a little tuning to do on it as it rocks around a little in hover, but I am having a great time with it. I had a call from Bob today and he is having lots of fun with his quad. I did some work on the Raptor tonight and got the receiver installed and programmed the transmitter. I tried the motors and it has about a 1:1 thrust to weight ratio, it is going to be fun to fly!
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