King3 - Helicam - Jan 2010

Enjoying the experience of a better Collective Pitch Helicopter. Finding appropriate time practice is difficult with the current windy conditions in Melbourne.

Spent a week in Beechworth helping to build a Straw Bale house. Below is the Helicam of the experience. Very Windy conditions (more that 15 km/hour). Hovering was very difficult.

On one day the wind was so strong that when I lifted the heli to 1.5 metres the wind pushed it straight to the ground (minor crash as I tried to correct the heli - no damage).

This is the King3 with modified Loading Skids and Camera.


Found a spy camera on EBay for $16 AUS. It requires a Micro-SD card (had a an old 2g card). Takes videos 720x480. Very good quality.

Sample HQ quality (42 mb) - still lower than actual quality due to Blogger capability.





Low quality video of Thursdays progress on House. (15 mb)


2 comments:

Andrew said...

Nice video, now I know what you were talking about with the straw bale house! Helicopter looks great fun!

Unknown said...

Things have gone quite in the Heli-man world. What gives?