Big Lama maiden flight
The E Sky Big Lama is a big (51 centimeters) radio controlled helicopter suitable for outdoor use. I bought one a while ago and first flew it yesterday. The helicopter came with a controller which could be connected to the computer, so I had been practicing quite a bit at home with a simulator. Still I crashed the helicopter twice, damaging 6 rotor blades and some other essential helicopter parts beyond repair. Luckily the shop where I bought the helicopter advised me to buy a repair kit as well, so after replacing the damaged parts the helicopter looks (and hopefully works) fine again:
Eye in the sky
As soon as I get comfortable with controlling the helicopter we are going to attach a 100 gram weight to the helicopter and see how it behaves then. If I am confident I can fly with the added weight we'll replace the weight with the Gopro HERO HD to make some aerial videos :D.
Flying Model Simulator
The controller came with a special USB cable which made it very easy to hook it up to my computer. I downloaded Flight Model Simulator 2.0 Beta 7 to practice controlling RC helicopters. Unfortunately the program gave an error upon starting: "D3DRM.DLL cannot be loaded", and would not work at all. After downloading the missing DLL and placing it in the Windows/System32 folder the program would produce the same error. I found out that when you are using a 64 bit version of Windows Vista that you have to place the DLL in the Windows/SysWOW64 folder instead of the Windows/System32 folder suggested on the FMS forums.
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