January 10, 2012

  • Tuesday 10th Januray 2012

    Tuesday Afternoon: Cooler, 11C cloudy. yesterday was mostly clear and sunny, Saturday and Sunday were also clear and warm, 20C. I went to town this morning to et the shopping and it took me 2 1/2 hours......

    It was a pretty normal sort of weekend, Beccie wasn't feeling too bad considering, she's just really tired, but she was able to join us most of the time and watched the TV until late. She has been very tired since though, we sat in the naya yesterday afternoon and the walk up there wiped her out. We have to go to Valencia next for the second treatment of Chemo..........

    I only had one flight with Lady B each day over the weekend, but the T Rex Pro helicopter is flying properly at last, so I have been hovering that in the Plaza as well I have been flying the little Solo Pro 180 that came via NZ.

    The mystery of how to set up the Solo Pro 180 has also been solved and it does fly very well, but it is plauged by regular break downs during almost every flight! The tail drive gear has come unstuck twice now, which is relativly easy to fix albeit requiring a strip down, the main drive gave up a couple of times, then last night a swashplate servo went "clockwork" on it and they are really expensive to replace compared to what I usually expect to pay for a servo. I managed to find one on ebay for half the European price from Hong Kong, but it was still over ten quid and I will probably have to wait up to three weeks for it to arrive, so now the Solo Pro 180 is out of action yet again!

    My Birthday present turned Thursday, it's a Hughes 500E body for the T rex mechanics, it's really nice amd I am looking forward to completing it now, but my Christmas present still hasn't arrived so I still can't make the second T Rex which is for the body as essential parts are still not here despite them all being ordered back last Novemebr! Strangely every other order I made last year has arrived, even the ones I made since Christmas, so I have an array of spare parts for both the T Rex models, even though they have barely been flown yet.

    Last night the parts for Antony's helicopter had arrived so we sorted that out, but it still won't fly and the battery goes flat in about 4 minutes.... I can't get it to take off, let alone hover, it seems gutless. We watched a review of it on the internet and the conclusion was that it is a waste of money, so don't buy one! We had already reached that conclusion, but what do you do when you have bought one already!