Finally some good flying time

I took the Typhoon to my local flying field (http://www.burlington-rc.com/), where one of the club members was flying a nice looking Hangar9 Twist3D 60. Rather good pilot, still getting used to the whole 3D flying (which I still don't understand yet). He was having a grand old time doing verticals and high rate spins, but mostly practicing his landings. He powered his bird with a nice Saito 90, and it simply sounded stellar.

It was a little windy so I didn't take my Typhoon out of the Jeep but he finally convinced me to give it a go.

I'm glad I did. It was my best flying ever. A good 12 minutes two ROG's, one good landing, one not so good upside down landing... but I felt damn good of the flights. The wind was a little heavy but at 50% throttle the Typhoon didn't have much of an issue cutting thru the winds and was nicely responsive. I didn't use the high throws as full right rudder made the servo sound rather sick (I think its stripping which is common on the Typhoon's stock servos), and I'm not at all familiar with flying birds with such large control surfaces so I just did what I could. And I had a total BLAST.

Today rated my best flying in about 2 years... hopefully the wind will die down a bit more tomorrow and I can get some more stick time in. At the end of the week I think I will swap my radio gear from my Cessna 182 (FlyZone) into the ParkZone Typhoon. While the FlyZone's radio isn't the best, its certianly better than the ParkZone's!