[Canberrauav] Sunday Recap
Stephen Dade stephen_dade at hotmail.com 
Sun Oct 20 11:57:50 UTC 2013 

Hi everyone,

A review of our flights at Geoff's place today:

Flight 1 - Successful. A slightly hard landing bent the landing gear (quick
fix). The plane's performance was not optimal during auto mode. Added in
more rudder mixing for better turns

Flight 2 - Parachute got caught in bottle on the way down and did not fully
deploy. Bottle was severely damaged, but the rest of the mechanism was OK.
Mechanism was fixed to prevent catching in the future.

Flight 3 - Bottle deployment was successful. Beaver had a very rough
landing, sustaining moderate damage. Propeller destroyed, several wing spars
heavily damaged, cracks in fuselage and heavy damage to undercarriage.

We're not sure at this stage as to how long repairs (if repairable) will
take to the Beaver. Could a good couple of weeks. Jack should have a better
idea in the next couple of days.

Thanks

Stephen

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