[janeseymore09092]

Ok that was kind of scary. I mounted the batteries in the forward position instead of the aft since the camera is aft of the CG. The CG was now a little aft of normal but acceptable.
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It's warm today, so the snow has started getting wet. "Great" I thought as I walked to the river. Wrong! With the powder snow I had the other day (video of the first flight with skis that day) it floated on top as son as it started moving. With the wet snow today it bogged down immediately and simply fell through. I had to walk out and lift the plane back up four or five times. Finally I decided to give up on taking off from the deep snow and set the plane down on a harder lane where a snowmobile had drive past. It was very narrow but it would work. No problem! [rolleyes]

It flew a little tail heavy. Fine for 3D, but bad for the kind of fast flying I wanted to do. It felt very unprecise today, and I could see that the skis had changed incidence when they bogged down. One was pointing slightly upwards compared to the other and was probably affecting the roll because I had to trim the roll axis a little. It kept bobbing its nose in high speed flight because of the rearward CG which is obvious in the video.

Here's the video. It turned out pretty crap because of the crappy windshield and the boring weather. You get a good feel of the speed it's going at though, especially when I skim the treetops on the other end of the river:
http://www.enrarot.net/videos/velox/obvelox01.wmv

[iceleliewBync]

Neither of the links work

[Ingeborga]

Funny you posted something, I saw this a few minutes ago and wondered if it was you.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6b2_1201784970