Phil's News

E-flite Blade MCPx micro heli,
ST Models MX2 ARTF,
Vintage Kit donated by Colin Buckle,

I had good and bad luck with my own landings with the Acacia at Frocester today. A few decent crow landings on the normal LZ, then I dared to experiment... since it was reasonably smooth lift (although it went up and down quite a bit through the afternoon) and also well off to the West (right) I tried a completely new approach.

I came round well to the left, quite high but in front of the back trees where it gets very turbulent. Then using crow braking I dropped in round the back of the small tree on the front of the slope and slid to a stop at the slope edge near the normal launch position. You couldn't use it if any walkers were about, but it wasn't half as tricky as I thought it would be.

Only me and Pete were there then and he was busy flying. I was gutted that nobody had seen my spectacular new landing technique.. but luckily a minute later Phil and Guy turned up and Phil had seen it all

I did it again later on, hopefully Phil will post the video of it later on. It was a nice gentle landing and yet the nose fell off...again!! I really thought

Pete had his M60 there shooting about, Guy seems to be in love with his Weasel at the moment and Phil was flying a camera. Oh, and somehow getting a wing up to incredible heights when everybody else was struggling to stay up at all. Just for a change.

I flew on Minchinhampton common in the afternoon and failed to find any lift
Friday

Since nobody else has piped up... it turned out nice again!

Barry was there when I arrived. Lift was OK, occasionally good, but it was cold and overcast. As the day went on, the clouds cleared and the lift improved steadily - we had some good flights, especially once the paragliders cleared off and when there weren't any low full-size gliders crossing overhead.

Roger/Richard(?) came along with his super-fast Bird and showed us all up with his flying, then finally Phil and Eyeboy strolled up. Phil wasn't sure what the blowy air thing was all about but decided to fly anyway - I think he quite liked it. Eyeboy dithered about which planes to fly and flew his Hawk, as usual

I left then as I'd run out of batteries in the Acacia (2300mAh) and the Weasel (900mAh) - without breaking either of them!

The Acacia eats batteries with it's six digi servos - I'm tempted to put a LiFe pack in instead which should cope with the current needs better - anyone tried it? All my servos and the rx can cope with the <6.8V it puts out (similar to a 5 cell '6V' NiMH pack).

On the way out me and Guy who had just arrived noticed that Phils van seemed to be leaving a substantial trail of (possibly) diesel behind it - hope that got sorted out alright.

All-in-all, a good day. Except maybe for Phil. And for me who went Christmas shopping in Stroud, which turned out to be a bit hopeless.

Radian Pro Electric Glider, RX-6-DR light M-LINK 2.4 GHz rreceivers. , CML RAPIER 250. JR PCM9X transmitter, Spektrum AR6100, 67" Scale Piper Cub , 68" sport model, Super GRONE 236 mcpx ,DSX9, , 40 size low wing trainer, Kyosho Calmato, , Twister Storm Hel, Top , AXI motor AR6100e, Vibe50 heli, 2.4 TX, 35MHz receiver, 325mm heli blades, Crystals

14th December SCSA AGM 8.00PM at the Bear of Rodborough. The AGM will be followed by a quiz organized by Doug Garland. Your 3rd party insurance expires on 31st December. Please attend, join the committee, pay up and enjoy the quiz.

Phil's news letter 12/12/11

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