Alouette II 1:6

Wiring under the Cockpit-floor and the cockpit is completed!

Here are some videos showing the functionality of the Cockpit.
The pilot reproduces the commands given to the helicopter.
The Arduino is used to control the control panel lights and you can be controlled directly from the radio.
Currently the LEDs light up randomly.
The next step is to read the battery voltage and indicate the charge with the green, yellow, red LEDs

Ladies and gentlemen. This is what happens if you only get to fly once per month...
Nothing fancy just some flight circuits needing practice.

This is the last time I flew on this field in Belgium as I am relocating once more...
Just to give you some perception... the trees are 40 m from the take off point (25 at the closest point). Behind them is a rather busy canal and behind the canal is the main highway connecting Paris and Brussels...

I was the only helicopter guy in the club.. the rest are plankers (a merry group of fine gentlemen)...

I still need to paint the main rotorhead... and detail the cockpit. Hopefully I get to do this before I move again. This helicopter is and will be my grab-n-go-fly heli and I never intended to add any scale details... but I failed at that already.

A rather boring 7 min flight is attached to this post.

As you might have noticed the bright yellow fuselage is still hard to see and with the trees as the background I was not comfortable flying the military paint schemes...

GH