{"id":393,"date":"2014-11-12T18:17:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umflight.wordpress.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2014-11-12T18:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T23:17:29","slug":"midnight-flights-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Flights #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m challenging myself to fly my Hobbyzone Champ <strong>every night<\/strong> for three consecutive nights. Tonight, I did my first Midnight Flight (a flight at roughly sundown- not REALLY at midnight!). My camera person wasn&#8217;t there, so I could only get a picture of my Champ on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I did my Midnight Flight at roughly 6:00 PM EST, so the sun had set about 10 minutes before flying. I&#8217;ll try to do my next two Midnight Flights a few minutes earlier so I can fly my whole 6 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I used Lectron Pro 180 mAH batteries. (Side note: they are excellent batteries for the price. I can get &#8217;em with Amazon Prime. Eight batteries delivered in two days (with Prime) and very good customer service for only 40 bucks is nearly a steal!)<\/p>\n<p>I had to come in with 2:40 minutes left on my DX6i timer because it got too dark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0891.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/umflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0891.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0891.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0890.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/umflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_0890.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0890.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere are my two pics. One has flash; the other doesn&#8217;t (I also love photography&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>The flight was uneventful. I haven&#8217;t flown for at least 2-3 weeks, so it was GREAT to be back in the air again. Also, actually flying gave me ideas and inspiration for more posts (such as this one)!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been concentrating on umFlight for three past weeks (and barely any free time) that I never actually flew. There&#8217;s absolutely NO substitute for flying a great UM plane like he Champ.<\/p>\n<p>Landings were very rusty, but I think that&#8217;s mostly due to the darkness. I thought I was a few inches above the ground when I was really landing right then! <\/p>\n<p>I need to practice more in the light.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe tomorrow I&#8217;ll be able to get my camera person\/bad photographer\/decent videographer out to take video and pics of the plane flying for tomorrow&#8217;s update.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading Midnight Flights #1 and I&#8217;ll see you tomorrow. Hopefully! Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m challenging myself to fly my Hobbyzone Champ every night for three consecutive nights. Tonight, I did my first Midnight Flight (a flight at roughly sundown- not REALLY at midnight!). My camera person wasn&#8217;t there, so I could only get a picture of my Champ on the ground. Tonight, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,24,38,44,45,72],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kAwJ-6l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}