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I’m going to experiment with writing flight logs.  This will probably evolve over time as I think of things I’d like to capture.

Today I went out with the Blade 450, put four batteries through it in the snow (!). Despite being 1-2C outside the batteries performed well, giving 6 mins each and when returning home and checking they were all showing 35-40% left in them.

Mostly I was practising hovering, moving to side on hovering. I’ve wound the expo up to 40% on Aileron and Elevator, seems to help me with keeping it stable. Doing circuits I find it seems to get away with me as I turn it around to come back long the edge of the circuit, gaining speed which I have difficulty bleeding off.  Good session though!

Cell balance was as follows:

<th>
  V Max-Min
</th>

<td>
  0.03
</td>

<td>
  0.02
</td>

<td>
  0.09
</td>

<td>
  0.011
</td>

Trying out the parallel charge lead for the first time, I find one of the connectors is duff, most likely my soldering at the join. A shame I didn’t know this before I wrapped it all in heat shrink!