Hello dear visitors. Few months ago my new friend Duarte Folgado from Portugal ask me, could i help him create freestyle routine. It was quite interesting to help someone to develop flying skills by creating challenging freestyle routine, so i said yes. I meet Duarte in EXFC, after several weeks practice new routine he told he improve his flying skills dramatically. I could see this is true when we went to fly online on RealFlight simulator. Duarte flew different combinations of fast slow rolls to both directions almost without problem, and as we know this is hardest thing to do for any pilot! Of course to reach Duarte level you have to be really motivated and love your hobby and be prepared spend some serious time on simulator. Even some top pilots make only one way/direction rolling circles.... so as we all know nothing good come easy without work.
Here is Duarte with his planes, and here is what he told me, affter receiving his routine;
"I thought that I had seen everything about freestyle, but when Donatas created my routine I realized how very wrong I was! The manoeuvres, the music and the choreography were everything that I always want to see in a freestyle routine, no other routine of no other pilot "turn me on" ever since. And what is truly amazing is that my flying skills rise to an unbelievable level after hard practice to perform this routine, all I have to say is thank you very much Donatas!"
Ok back to article title , i was watching freestyle videos since famous and unfortunately last TOC 2002, since then i watch probably few hundreds of different flights to music. And i notice most pilots that have several 3m planes (that cost about 4000-6000 eur each) don't have good routines and in most cases fly basic 3D with random strange music in background. You even can see this in such top competitions as TAS and XFC. There is several reasons for this, some pilots don't have time , and more often they don't have skills to do it, specially with original never used music. Most people that saw my routines like them allot, and told positive opinion about them. So my dear friends i decide to offer new product in RC , hi level Freestyle/Artistic Aerobatic routines that include 4 minutes music file with simulator video showing stick movement and plane in same picture. I think its a great deal for both parts good pilots get chalenging routine and i get extra cash for this expencive hobby. Creating good routine takes about 2 weeks for me, so it will not be cheap, for price and order details please contact me using my mail;
After EXFC i see different planes require different routines so i start experimenting with softer style for bigger planes and same fast and aggressive for Artistic Aerobatic planes up to 2meter and indoor routines. So from you i will need to know exactly where you want to use this routine, what level pilot you are and best of all look at your flying videos.
Here are some of my Artistic Aerobatic / Freestyle routines i create;
Its not a secret that this F3P season in Europe is quite empty, so i find time for fun activities, and what can be better than crazy VPP stuff? With some planning and preparation i get chance to shoot latest VPP tricks in very interesting pbackground. Can you imagine better place to shoot RC video than huge international airport hangar?;) So special thanks for help making this video goes to FlyLal technics and MyResearch.lt
Other older video showing Arrow 3V , demo flight at very special historical place for aviation in France, famous Salon du Bourget . In background you can see rudder of real fighter, i believe this was Mirage!
Agenoria Cup fantastic event and memories!
ARROW PLANS NOW AVAILABLE!!!
Sory guys but plans are not free, i spend on this plane many hours and energy since late 2006 year, till it start flying so well, so it would be nise to get something in return for sharing it. Price for plans will be only 15eur + (PayPal fee 0.86eur). For this you will get 13 pages detailed plans, 6 pages manual with main information/pictures for right equipment selection and instalation, plane assembly and radio setup. Best way to make payment for Arrow V3 plans is paypal transfer, my paypal address is
.With paypal fee it will be 15.86EUR ore 22usd. After i receive payment plans and manual will be send to you by mail in PDF format (to open it you will need acrobat reader). When you make payment please mention in note section; your full name and email address where i should send plans and manual. Sending plans should not take longer than 24h, in case im near PC it will be just matter of few minutes.
Manual include good advices how to set up radio for VPP flying.
Building tips.
Ussual way to hover for Arrow;)
Line of my latest and most successful designs!
If you want try something new try using Elevator flaperons mix for more effective elevator.
VPP flying is quite difficult and complex thing, so first for pilots who have not much experience with 3D ore indoor flying, i suggest build Arrow with usual setup (motor mounted in front). this way you will get use to plane and his flying, and then you be ready to build second Arrow with Variable pitch propeller mounted inside fuselage.
Arrow build from same plan only with ussual setup, motor and propeller mounted in front.
Only thing different here was airfoiled wing from styrofoam. In any case this was just test from curiosity, to see how well airfoiled wing shocky will fly. Result was not bad, specially i had to say snap rolls become reall snap rolls not imitation. Bad thing was it is not practical, its more fragile than regular 3mm depron flat wing and have bigger weight. So in your case i suggest you to try regular 3mm flat depron wing, it will fly good. If you need very agile plane increase aileron compensator size and move aileron hinge line about 15mm infront from one that shown in plans (this is not possible with VPP plane since propeller is no the way).
Very short airfoiled Arrow video from Drift show in Kaunas.
