A Beautiful Day for Flying

It was still a little foggy when we got to the flying field this morning, but not so bad that I couldn't test fly the new Edge 540.  It only needed a little aileron and elevator trim and it was flying pretty good.  On the second flight I found out the magnet for holding on the canopy was not strong enough when the canopy came off at the bottom of an outside loop.  I also put a flight on the new quad and let it do it's auto tune.  I had tried it once at home but it upsets it's self and then makes adjustment to the gain.  Having it 100 feet up sure felt a lot safer than doing it right in front of my shop about 10 feet away.  It flew better after that and I did some long distant RTL (Return To Home trials) which worked great.  I will download the settings onto the laptop and see what it changed.

We left the field about 11 so we could keep an appointment to check out a mower for the club that was part of an estate sale.  It was in great condition and the committee made a decision to buy it.  We moved it to club member Ken's house and then visited there for a little while before heading back to the field.

Mt Rainier and Mt St Helens were both looking great today.  It was warm enough when we got back to the field that jackets were not needed.

There were 8 flyers out today enjoying the great weather.  I had one aileron servo quit in the Dirty Birdy as I was landing, so I have some repair work to do on it.

This is my friend Steve making a low pass with his hot liner.  We stayed until about 4 when it started cooling off.  After we got home, I unloaded and put the motor home away, then I remembered we were supposed to be at Bruno's for Josh's birthday at 5!  It was almost 5, Vera was tired, so I ran down and got there about 15 minutes late, but I had a nice visit with Josh.  When I got home, I settled in to watch the Seahawks game recording.  I made sure that I stayed off the computer so I would not know how it came out ahead of time.  It was another win for the Hawks, then I watched Sunday Night Football before calling it a night.