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This is the flight log of my Piccolo Pro.

I bought the micro heli from a member on www.runryder.com

6 March 04 First flight! Wow...this micro heli is a beautiful engineering design. The rotor head is incredibly tough. Even with my experience with bigger nitro fuel helicopters, I have difficulties handling this micro heli on the first try. Results in 3 tip over and only damage is broken main blades when I crash into my house gate.

20 March 04 Built a training gear for it from carbon rods. I got the hang of it. I'm surprised by the hovering stability. She behaves reasonably well in flight and in no time, I'm flying figure 8 and side way hovering. I managed a few brief moments of hands off hovering.

21 March 04 Took her for an outdoor adventure at Bukit Batok Flying Club. Haha, she attracted lots of attention. Hopefully I can "stir" up sufficient interest to get one of the local hobby shop to bring Piccolo Pro in to Singapore. Showtime! Flew in the great outdoors with winds that are strong enough to de-stabilised a nitro heli. Flew figure 8 and managed a roll, with cheers from the folks at the club! But I stripped the main gear. I guess I'm too agressive with the collective pitch and throttle during the roll.

Piccolo Pro Flight Log		Piccolo Pro showing the internal mechanism.
This is the flight log of my Piccolo Pro. I bought the micro heli from a member on www.runryder.com 6 March 04 First flight! Wow...this micro heli is a beautiful engineering design. The rotor head is incredibly tough. Even with my experience with bigger nitro fuel helicopters, I have difficulties handling this micro heli on the first try. Results in 3 tip over and only damage is broken main blades when I crash into my house gate. 20 March 04 Built a training gear for it from carbon rods. I got the hang of it. I'm surprised by the hovering stability. She behaves reasonably well in flight and in no time, I'm flying figure 8 and side way hovering. I managed a few brief moments of hands off hovering. 21 March 04 Took her for an outdoor adventure at Bukit Batok Flying Club. Haha, she attracted lots of attention. Hopefully I can "stir" up sufficient interest to get one of the local hobby shop to bring Piccolo Pro in to Singapore. Showtime! Flew in the great outdoors with winds that are strong enough to de-stabilised a nitro heli. Flew figure 8 and managed a roll, with cheers from the folks at the club! But I stripped the main gear. I guess I'm too agressive with the collective pitch and throttle during the roll.	PMP metal rotor head for my style of flying. Hacker 20-18, GY240 and Etec 3S 1200 mah li-po batteries for incredible micro heli flying experience. Unconventional tail motor to counter the torque from the main blades. Works great.