The Wind! The Wind!

Thanks...and it's true...so all I can do is stay locked and loaded, and it WILL be great when I get a shot at it!

The guy I'm helping to get started back into flying has got serious "buck-fever", and I may have to hide his gear to keep him grounded 'till we get a reasonable day! Don't care at all for those long, silent drives home with a van-load of "re-kitted" planes!

"Da Plane! Da Plane!" -Tatoo on "Fantasy Island"

SD

SuperDave wrote:"Da Plane! Da Plane!" -Tatoo on "Fantasy Island"

SD

Just thinking the same thing!

Yep...but he was a lot happier about it than me !

Could you not take out some sale planes
To get a taste of flying.

Yeah, over by the river, we've got flood-control levees (earthen dikes) running in every direction, so I can always find a stretch that is square to the wind for a little slope soaring, but I've REALLY been in the mood for some control line flying and have had the van loaded up with that gear since Sunday (I pack along the better part of a Hobby Shop when I fly, so loading and unloading is an event).

Anyway, it's all good...need to put in more shop time anyway. The Brotherhood of the Ring is having their International Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon the first weekend in Oct., and I'm working on a 1/2A Ringmaster Biplane that I GOT to finish for it, and an S-1 .35-powered Ringmaster that I WANT to finish. If the S-1 is ready, it'll be a "Photo Finish" with wet dope on the plane!

We shall see..........

i think i've just got the perfect flying location over here. a big, well mowed meadow sorrounded by5 or 6 rows of
high pine trees. there is no wind what so ever over there, and its just a minute away from my house!
oh, the luxury...

GermanBeez wrote:i think i've just got the perfect flying location over here. a big, well mowed meadow sorrounded by5 or 6 rows of
high pine trees. there is no wind what so ever over there, and its just a minute away from my house!
oh, the luxury...

Sounds great

Here in Missouri, you can have a dead-calm morning, followed by high winds through the day, followed by a dead calm evening, so it can be tough to plan, but you do what you can with the weather that's handed to you. My R/C buds and I have even been so desperate to fly that we've stood in the open door of a hangar, and flown our planes outside in the rain....can make your silkspan sag!

If the winds are 10-15 knots, the levees work great for sloping. However, since they're only 30 feet tall or so, any higher winds seem to "flatten out" the lift area and you can only sustain flight down low, REAL close to face of the berm. I don't have any dedicated Slope Planes, and touching a light 2-channel thermal glider's wing tip against a slope at high speed tends to scatter things!

One cool thing about sloping is that with the right conditions, ANYTHING can become a slope soarer! One day, after smacking my B.O.T. into the levee, I pulled my much-tortured Lazy Bee from the van, took off it's wheels and prop, plugged it's carb with an earplug, and heaved it into the gale! With it's big, flying rudder, it could turn almost in it's own length, and I played it up and down the levee like a dolphin playing in the bow-wave of a ship!