Gliders > Thermal / Flat field
Hi from a newbie:)
Alanm:
Hey all, don't know if I fit into this section or some other, just re-started in rc after a fair few years absence. Recently bought a nine eagles sky climber, a nice powered glider and have had my first few successful flights, hooked to say the least:) In the process of joining my local club and thought I'd search out some active forums and say hi:)
billscottni:
Welcome to the Asylum!
Plenty of good, unpretentious advice available here from a great bunch of guys.
Enjoy the hobby
Happy Days:
Hi Alanm, and like Bill said, welcome aboard the forum. :D
So what type of rc flying did you used to do? :?:
Personally I’m mostly into slope soaring. Still learning, but at least I’m buying proper kindling now, instead of using crunched models to light the fire! :lol:
Show us a picture of your plane why don’t you? :wink:
Keith
Alanm:
Thanks guys! Nice welcome indeed:)
Good unpretentious advice is just what I'm looking for, used to forums where quite the opposite is true!
Keith I used to have a petrol high wing trainer, a precedent hiboy or something like it, seriously underpowered, horribly built(by myself I admit) and an absolute pig in the air. Eventually got passed crashing it into the ground and made a few flights out of it. Then built a scale sopwith pup which I never got the nerve to fly before leaving the whole rc hobby behind me for a few years.
Recently decided to get back into it but was apprehensive as I'd only got memories of me crashing so I chose a nice slow powered glider to learn on and hit phoenix simulator for a few days before taking the glider out. (I'll try get a pic of it up 2moro) made 4or5 good flights with decent landings and was delighted with myself!
How long have you been slope soaring for? What plane have you got now that your passed making kindling too?
Happy Days:
You made the right choice with the eagles climber. Nice stable bird and easy to repair if you need to. :wink: She’s quite like a Multiplex Easy Glider I had some time ago.
I actually learnt to fly gliders with a combat wing. Incredibly robust, and good fun when flying ‘in combat’ with other pilots. :twisted: The only down side is that they tend to be very elevator sensitive. I had to put in loads of exponential to ‘soften’ the elevons control.
The present love of my life, apart from ‘er in doors, (I had to write that in case she reads this post :roll: ) is my Phase 6, all-be-it a much modified Phase 6, pictured here.
Anyway, enough about me,…………….whereabouts do you fly Alanm? Are you interested in flat field gliding, (thermal) or slope soaring?
We tend to have two of three Glide-Ins a year down on the Blackstairs mountains in Co. Wexford. (Mt. Lienster actually.) Next one will be due around mid March. :P So there’s something to prepare yourself for.
By the way,…….Will you be having another go with your Sopwith Pup? Or did you dispose of it when you ‘ Had a rest from model flying?’
I’ve found that in this hobby you need to be very tenacious. “If at first you don’t succeed,……repair the bugger & try again.” is the best motto. :lol:
As for the question of how long have I been flying? I flew my first model plane on the 22nd December 2007. A date that will be forever etched in my mind. It was an electric powered Cessna trainer. I managed to keep it up for about five minutes, (the plane I’m talking about Alanm :roll: ) before handing the control tx to my instructor who then landed it for me. I got my A Cert the following spring, and then discovered to gliding!!! My powered planes don’t get used very much now although it’s nice to take them up for a change.
So that’s the story…………..
Keith
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