Saturday, December 27, 2014

ARES Spectre X gone wild?

Bought on friday, lost the next monday...

What happens when this flying object looses signal?
1 - Does it fall?
2 - Does it keep flying on the last throttle setting?

Since i can t find it where it should have fallen after i lost control and it passed behind the roof of the house at nearly full throttle, i shall assume it keeps flying by itself. I had perhaps put the throttle stick to zero too late.
Opening the transmitter, i noticed the antenna of the transmitter is 1.5 cm long ( or short perhaps? )

I never found the quad despite looking for 2 hours the next 2 days following the crash in the direction the wind might have blown it....

My next quad drone will be controled with my powerfull transmitter, thougt not easy to find compatibility...

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Gold bug hot springs, Salmon, Idaho
















Note: when you go to wild hot springs on top of a mountain, either take a lot of water with you or a water filter because you really dehydrate in the water! 
when we finally made it back to the car, we had no water left! we immedialtely found a bar and had a few liters of water each, watermelon and ruth beer :) (frozen cold limonade with ice cream floating, miam)



Friday, July 04, 2014

Conundrum hot springs, colorado july 14

 The Conundrum hot springs hike from near Aspen.
1000m climb to 3200 m altitude,

Gps trace




















the hot springs:

The unavoidable passage in the rivers to get to the hot springs:





Grand junction : Colorado national monument with Jessica and Max