Gliders > Thermal / Flat field
Hi from a newbie:)
Fred:
Hi Alan,
Welcome to the forum! :D
gerryb:
hi alan, welcome to the forum.
i fly on tountinna which is near ballina/killaloe on the ballina side of lough derg. if you're ever in the area, send me a message and maybe we can meet up.
Alanm:
Thanks Fred & Gerry! Appreciate your offer to fly sometime Gerry, very kind of you and I may take you up on it sometime. If I can ever swing a fishing/flying trip in the lough derg area I'll give you a shout. The missus is at me about becoming an RC widow, so we'll see what happens!
don't know if this will work, but hopefully here is a pic of the sky climber, after it's first flight repairs, in which it took a horrible nose dive into the ground very shortly after flight, easily repaired thankfully! I later found out that the aileron channel was reversed, my bad:(
Keith, that's a nice looking glider of yours, what mods have you made to it?
I'm mostly into flat field flying, but it is early days and I might drop down to one of your glide ins this year, always good to see what's going on.
I never did get back to the sopwith pup, my real love is scale flying so hopefully I'll get something scale flying this year, I think the pup got lost in one of my house moves.
I have been flying in a friends fields in Laois and Kildare upto now, until I'm in the local club anyhow, then I'll have to fly with an instructor for a bit.
I get around the country a lot with work so I'm hoping to lug a plane with me and fly in a few diff locations once I have that test thingy passed and am allowed on my own;)
Alan
Happy Days:
It’s my understanding that, provided you have third party insurance, you can fly on your own now Alan. :D
Indeed, I think it’s fair to say that may be as many as 50 % of the pilots at our glid-ins haven’t past any certificate.
You get insurance through MACI. I think it’s about 80 or 90 euro per year. One of the conditions that MACI insist that you are a member of a recognised club, but being a member of this forum enables you to claim membership of the Ireland Slope Rebels club, so that is that matter settled. The forums’ moderator, Fred, can get the insurance for you. (Good ‘ol Fred. He’s a very useful fellow to know. :wink: He’s been in this hobby since,….er…..well I’m not sure. Probably since ABBA or there abouts! :roll: ) Anyway, once you’ve paid for your MACI membership, and got a card from them to prove it, you’ll get a MACI registration number. Put that on your plane (see the picture of my model and you’ll see IRL 4906 on the right wing half) and off you go!!!
If you ever intend to be down Wexford way with your plane in the car let me know. If the wind is right we can take a trip up to Mt. Lienster to sample the delights of slope soaring. 8)
Keith
Alanm:
Fair play, thanks Keith! If I don't get accepted for the club I'll give Fred a shot and get my maci membership through him.
Thanks for the offer of flying in Wexford, I have some work in Wexford in the middle of march so I'll try and make it to that glide-in if it's around the same time or maybe give you a shout and you can show me the wonders of slope soaring:)
Alan
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