Slightly Off Topic: Flying Pattern at Night

[David Sweatt]

It's slightly off topic but I thought I would share this story.
This weekend I was at a large heli-funfly and it is a big thing to fly
helicopters with nightblades and nightropes and such.
Well I had my beater FedEx 2meter bird in the truck, and for some reason we 
got the crazy idea to strap night rope and glow tubes to it.
It looked really cool all lit up and I have to admit I was really nervous 
but I took off and flew around abit to get used to it, and being that your 
so used to flying the pattern I proceeded to fly the entire Sportsman 
sequence at about 12:45 AM! It was really cool cause even when I would kinda 
of loose it, due to muscle memory I guess or knowing where to move the 
sticks cause you practice it all the time it worked out great. The landing 
was interesting cause you couldn't see the ground but it came in just fine 
and I didn't even break the prop!
I got pretty good video of it too..anyway thanks for letting me share my 
story..David Sweatt


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