Kwads May 2018

The line as May 2018.

Summer Flying Fidgeland

Early Summer in the Mountains

Mountain cabin season openers is probably a great time to visit post winter skiing crowds. It's quieter at this time of the year with typically no one else around in the area. It's perfect if you want solitude. Parts of the trail may still be snowed over but it's beautiful none the less. The animals like grouse (winter feathers), jack rabbit and lemmings are also sometimes more visible at this time.

The famed lemming, I saw a few of them this season some scurrying about the cabin.

Spring at Vaulen Beach in Early Summer

It's perhaps the busiest season for the birds ... looking for mates, seeking alliances, building nests and starting a family. Vaulen Beach is just down the hill from where we live, it's a small secluded patch of nature along Ganddal Fjord.

Maudal Flights Early Summer

The Thinsly Twins

The Thinsly twins are 260mm size kwads with a light aluminium shell, 4mm carbon arms with bottom loading battery bay. Both equipped with Foxeer F303 flight controller and Geprc PDB running Cleanflight.

Thinly Gold runs on Hobbywing 2205 1800KV motors with DYS DS30Amp BLHeli_S ESCs. It flies  very quietly and stable.

The Thinly Blue runs on Emax 2205 2300KV motors with Little Bee 40Amp BLHeli_S. It's also a stable flyer with a slightly higher noise than its twin brother.

Both craft uses Idealfly 5in triprops and Flysky IA6B receiver.

Thinsly Gold 260.

Thinsly Blue 260mm.

Terrible news : 1st total lost for the season

Our first total casualty this season. And Motland has taken a second drone. 

The first casualty here was the Hubsan H109s together with the Gitup Git2. This time an inadvertent half flip landed  the EX220 straight into the fast flowing snowmelt with a rocky bottom. 

The water level was high and the stream was flowing really strong on account of voluminous water from the snowmelt. It is a total loss since a rescue is out of the question as the situation stands now.

Parts loss tally:

EX220 Frame Nok250

Furibee MN2205 2300KV motors Nok240

Furibee BLHeli_32 30Amp ESC Nok280

Betaflight F3 Flight controller Nok 340

Hawkeye Firefly Micro camera  Nok220

Azure 5in two bladed props Negligible

Flysky X6B receiver Nok75

Total loss = Nok 1405

So long EX220, may you RIP in your last resting space. who knows if the water level goes down the next month or so, we'll see you again.

EX220 last pose.

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