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« on: February 13, 2011, 18:11:13 PM »
Four of us managed the epic climb up Craigy Hill today to fly slope for an enjoyable couple of hours. All a bit rusty, and it showed in some of he flying and landing! :lol:

https://picasaweb.google.com/nimsafly/Slope130211#

Couldn't work out how to embed the Picassa Slideshow :?:

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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2011, 19:00:53 PM »
:clap:  :clap:  :clap:
glad you got to fly bill
wish now i had went  :!:
i\'m an ordinary man nothing special nothing grand

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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2011, 19:09:46 PM »
Well done lads, :clap:  Hope you’re getting some practice in for the PSS next month. :wink:

Glad you had some wind to play with. I was up on Big L today and spent two hours scratching around for lift before swearing and going home.

How did you get on down south Ralph?

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Try not to run out of airspeed, altitude and ideas....... all at the same time.

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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2011, 20:03:56 PM »
Lift wasn't great and it came and went a bit throught the afternoon, but still an enjoyable afternoon.  :D

Problem we had was the hill is quite a strenuous climb which put a lot of our members off. And early in the week the wind was off it quite a bit, so Andrew didn't travel. On the day, it was almost head on :?

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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2011, 20:14:58 PM »
Yea’, it’s sods law isn’t it Bill. :(
Similar situation here. Before I left home today I checked the Mt. Lienster weather webcam and it showed winds at 19Km/h. The wind history graph showed that it had been like that for some hours. When I got to the slope the speed dropped to less than 10km/h. Stayed around that speed all the time I was there, but when I got home I saw that it had picked up just after I’d left the slope.  :evil: Grrrrr.

May be I should have gone to church this morning before setting off to the mountain!

(Nice pictures BTW Bill)

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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2011, 20:28:10 PM »
Quote from: "Happy Days"

(Nice pictures BTW Bill)

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The link in post 1 takes you to clubs picassa page. All pics are there. ried to put slideshow in to post 1 but couldn't figure out how to do it :?:

https://picasaweb.google.com/nimsafly/Slope130211#

Here it is again JIC

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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2011, 23:01:40 PM »
Hi Bill

Good days flying, I have the tail plane fixed :oops: Yes, I hit a rock when landing the phase 6, and it was such a good landing too, right  beside me with no flaps :!:

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« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2011, 07:51:24 AM »
Oh John, you’ve got a Phase 6 with a full house wing? :clap:  

Show us a picie,……..I like to compare. 8)

That’s the beauty of crunchies (wooden models,) they’re so easy to repair!

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« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2011, 08:03:53 AM »
Sorry Keith, it's standard wing.
John just meant he landed it without the model having flaps. It was a lovely landing until we heard the crunching sound :cry: