Re: [RCSE] Santa Barbara
Not many winches in Santa Barbara. Plenty of wenches though ;) Do you enjoy slope soaring? http://www.sbslopers.org/ Steve Daryl Perkins wrote: Looks like my full scale flying takes me to Santa Barbara this weekend. I'd like to fly my Insanity somewhere but I don't know of any TD clubs up that way. Anyone know of the nearest wench... uh... winch that will be set up Sat and Sun? TIA, D __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] Santa Barbara
Looks like my full scale flying takes me to Santa Barbara this weekend. I'd like to fly my Insanity somewhere but I don't know of any TD clubs up that way. Anyone know of the nearest wench... uh... winch that will be set up Sat and Sun? TIA, D __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] "Speaking of Insanity...RES wize that is"
Does it use the same stealth fuselage as the standard Ava? Chuck Anderson At 06:45 PM 1/18/2006, you wrote: Hi guys, Most of you know that I literally live to fly RES, nuthin I like better, other than maybe 2m and noisy little electric crap buzzing around while I am trying to listen to thermals :-) However, I flew my AVA once and in a contest and manage to win. It was ugly flying to say the least, the cat calls and howls of laughter might give you an idea of just how wobbly gobbly I fly three channel planes But I have only owned a Sailaire, never really flew one but always like the idea of having a really BIG sailplane for competitions etc. When I called Barry and told him I was out of the RES game and had sold my AVA, he said "PERFECT TIMING GORDY!"I just figured that his wife forgot to hide the expresso again, but he continued to tell me about the new Super AVA147" spanso I said, what the hell send one over. Anyone flown one yet? I think it weighs something like 25ozs all up with 3 giant servos in it and a Picolario, LoLo, and one of Sheldon's battery monitor, glitch testers...at least I am sure that's what everyone else's will come in on their particular scales. Likely I will just drop in three Volz servos, no switch, a Polk Seeker synth RX and 4 1250 sub c nicads. In anycase sounds like it could be a good ship for some of the LSF 5 work I need to do this season. Let me know if you have one or ordered one (misery loves company:-) or have flown one. Gordy PS, Barry promised to give me his car for posting this stuff :-) RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] For Sale
Several months ago I lost a close friend, Mike Remus. Mike was an L5 and a great guy. I have two of his planes that I am selling for his wife, Peg. Sharon 3.7 Pro straight tail. Yellow with Red bottoms and red stripes on right wing tip and stab. All JR digitals, 368 Rud, El and Ail and 3421 on flaps. This plane has a new ( never flown ) center section. I am not sure how the orginal was damage but the rest of the plane is near perfect condition. Comes with batt and either Airtronics 92778 or Hi Tec Super Slim plus batt. It also has a very nice red Plane Pac travel bag with it. On Scale of 100, this plane is at least a 98. $1500 + $50 shipping Bubble Dancer It is Green and transparent green with a little blue trim. Mike flew this at last years NATS. It it ready to go with batt, Berg rec and HS85 servos $575 + $25 shipping Jerry Shape 937 843 5085 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] Skip miLLer Models and favors
At least Gordy is up to date on the latest in 2m models 8-) At 06:00 PM 1/18/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was your thoughts on the new Victor? and what the heck is the German Eagle? Not made of cast iron is it? :-) Gordy Still in Florida Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net
[RCSE] "Speaking of Insanity...RES wize that is"
Hi guys, Most of you know that I literally live to fly RES, nuthin I like better, other than maybe 2m and noisy little electric crap buzzing around while I am trying to listen to thermals :-) However, I flew my AVA once and in a contest and manage to win. It was ugly flying to say the least, the cat calls and howls of laughter might give you an idea of just how wobbly gobbly I fly three channel planes But I have only owned a Sailaire, never really flew one but always like the idea of having a really BIG sailplane for competitions etc. When I called Barry and told him I was out of the RES game and had sold my AVA, he said "PERFECT TIMING GORDY!"I just figured that his wife forgot to hide the expresso again, but he continued to tell me about the new Super AVA147" spanso I said, what the hell send one over. Anyone flown one yet? I think it weighs something like 25ozs all up with 3 giant servos in it and a Picolario, LoLo, and one of Sheldon's battery monitor, glitch testers...at least I am sure that's what everyone else's will come in on their particular scales. Likely I will just drop in three Volz servos, no switch, a Polk Seeker synth RX and 4 1250 sub c nicads. In anycase sounds like it could be a good ship for some of the LSF 5 work I need to do this season. Let me know if you have one or ordered one (misery loves company:-) or have flown one. Gordy PS, Barry promised to give me his car for posting this stuff :-)
Re: [RCSE] Skip miLLer Models and favors
I have a few pics on my site under ''Whats New'' of the Victor. I thought the quality was pretty darn good, as was the price, Skip said $1250. Talked to a guy thats flown it a little and he said it really moves and turns on a dime. Said it was comparable to the f3b Crossfire in performance, but doesn't have that much time on it yet. Dave Hauchwww.git-r-built.com - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; soaring@airage.com Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:00 PM Subject: [RCSE] Skip miLLer Models and favors Tom Gressman I do not receive any favors from Skip for posting this. Yeah what the heck is with Skip? I never get any favors for my posts to RCSE either! Once he offered party favors but when I pulled the string nothing happened. no confetti or even a pop! What was your thoughts on the new Victor? and what the heck is the German Eagle? Not made of cast iron is it? :-)Gordy Still in Florida
RE: [RCSE] Skip miLLer Models and favors
Hey Skip always gave me favors. I bought a Monocoupe from him and he let me tow his Nimbus! Sometimes he let me carry his transmitter too! Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE] Skip miLLer Models and favors Tom Gressman I do not receive any favors from Skip for posting this. Yeah what the heck is with Skip? I never get any favors for my posts to RCSE either! Once he offered party favors but when I pulled the string nothing happened. no confetti or even a pop! What was your thoughts on the new Victor? and what the heck is the German Eagle? Not made of cast iron is it? :-) Gordy Still in Florida
[RCSE] Skip miLLer Models and favors
Tom Gressman I do not receive any favors from Skip for posting this. Yeah what the heck is with Skip? I never get any favors for my posts to RCSE either! Once he offered party favors but when I pulled the string nothing happened. no confetti or even a pop! What was your thoughts on the new Victor? and what the heck is the German Eagle? Not made of cast iron is it? :-)Gordy Still in Florida
[RCSE] Skip miLLer Models
Byron Blakeslee(2005 F3J team selections CD) and I just got back from visiting Skip Millers shop today. We were very impressed with this guy's inventory! Here is what we saw: Victors (Lubos Pazderka models/designer of the Extreme and Fazer. The Victor is his latest design), Fazers, German Eagle, large selection of Starlight 3000's including two piece V-tail and X-tail, Carbon 68 Pike Superiors, Topaz and Topaz L, Sharon 3.7, Space Pro. A large Mueller order consisting of Espada R's is being built as this is being written. Check out Skip's web site at www.skipmillermodels.com. Tom Gressman I do not receive any favors from Skip for posting this.
Re: [RCSE] RE: Jr R700 rx in contest environment?
Points well taken, Doug. Thanks for the perspective. --Jim On Jan 18, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Doug McLaren wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 05:43:25PM -0800, Jim Laurel wrote: | I ran a few informal tests the other day. I set a pair of JR 9303 | TXs with synth modules to the same frequency, one on PPM and one on ... RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] Pico Gyro
I have a Pico Gyro for sale. Slightly used in DLG. $50 delivered CONUS Tom Here's some info: http://www.heli-world.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=H&Product_Code=CN2022 - Original Message - From: "Tom Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> what's the thinking on gyros in DLGs these days? A gyro will probably not increase the maximum launch height of an aileron DLG model that is properly set up and properly thrown. There are some situations where a gyro may help: 1) They may help with polyhedral DLG models. 2) They may make your launches more consistent by "fixing" problems caused by bad launch technique. 3) They may help a novice who is just learning to throw, once again by "fixing" a bad throwing technique. As DLG moves more and more to flaperon models and pilots become more and more proficient with the throwing technique you see less and less use of gyros. Phil RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] VIKING RACE 2006
Gentlemen, I would like to inform you that the web site for VIKING RACE 2006, Scotland is now up and running. Please view it at your earliest convenience on the following address www.vikingrace2006.co.uk This has been forwarded to all who let me know that they were the contact person for the interested countries. If the relevant person has changed from my list, please let me know and contact them for me, thanks. If the information has to be forwarded to your national body for air sports then please do so on my behalf. Should you experience any difficulty with the site, please let me know. -- Ron Russell RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] RE: Jr R700 rx in contest environment?
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 05:43:25PM -0800, Jim Laurel wrote: | I ran a few informal tests the other day. I set a pair of JR 9303 | TXs with synth modules to the same frequency, one on PPM and one on | PCM. Then, I laid out two receivers - a JR R700 and an R770. | Results? WIth both transmitters on, servos on the PPM R700 were | totally out of control. No surprise there. But the R770 was totally | quiet, only responding to the PCM TX. Note that this test is only really valid if you are actually moving the servos. PCM should *never* glitch under any conditions (except under the *extremely* unlikely case where the interference generates a frame with a valid CRC) but just because it's not glitching, that doesn't mean you have control. (I'm sorry if you already know all of this.) My Futaba 9C controller has a servo test mode that slowly moves all servos back and forth. I don't know if the JR radios have anything equivilent, but this is just perfect for range tests and such. As long as the servos are smoothly moving back and forth, all is well. If they start stuttering, hesitating or jerking, then things are iffy, and if they stop completely, nothing is getting through. | At the field results were the same. The R770 seemed to ignore the | PPM transmitter altogether, responding perfectly to inputs from the | PCM TX only. I wouldn't rely on that. At the RF level, PCM is no different than PPM (all that differs is what signal is sent, not how it is sent), and both will happily interfere with each other if on the same channel. | My theory is that new folks who may not be so keen on | frequency control yet are likely to be using PPM. That is probably true, but I don't see it as being useful. | PCM gives me an extra margin of protection from frequency conflicts. My theory would be that the PCM RX just went into failsafe (or `hold last position') and this was mistaken for `no interference'. Or maybe the PCM signal was just stronger than the PPM signal and you just got lucky. Don't get me wrong -- PCM does provide some benefits (and there are some drawbacks too) and being able to kill the throttle automatically during interference on a powered plane is a huge benefit, but they're still not a magic bullet against interference. | Has anyone else tried this? Or had a PCM RX glitched on the same | frequency by a PPM TX? Is it unrealistic to think that PCM gives you | an extra level or protection from interference from rogue PPM receivers? It's an extra layer of protection if you've set up your failsafe positions properly and your plane can benefit from them (i.e. put your polyhedral glider into a gentle circle, kill any motor) and never glitching is certainly a good thing (having a glitch start a motor on the ground is especially bad) but it IS unrealistic to assume that PCM gives you any more protection against interference than that. Yes, your plane may handle the interference better (going to failsafe or hold position rather than glitching) but either way, you still don't have control. - Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some tips on how too write good: -Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement. -Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous. -Be more or less specific. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] "You guys don't know JACK...er I mean Apex 2m!"
Reminds me of the Laser 2MC from NSP.On Jan 17, 2006, at 7:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.mandsmodels.com/Apex.html this is one of those jewels that are often not noticed, well mostly cuz it is a 2m :-) However, while it is NOT an Organic, it does fly well and it is a more conventional looking ship for those of you who want a two piece wing shipand it's about half of a new Organic. I got to see it fly, head to head, man on man against my new Pike Giant, and while I have to temper my enthusiasm for its performance some cuz it was flown by Florida's 2m fanatic (Rick Eckels)...the two of them did end up being giant-killers that day (no need to re-mention the fact that I got bit by a line break :-). In any case if you guys are looking for a bagged, live hinged 2m, take a look at the Apex... Gordy Bradenton Florida tonite
Re: [RCSE] Re: Soaring V1 #6983
In a message dated 1/17/2006 4:53:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have never heard that you could avoid channel conflict by using a PCM receiver. Failsafe and, perhaps faster or more solid signal handling were what I heard. Can anyone confirm this ability of a PCM receiver to ignore a PPM signal on the same channel? It will "ignore" the PPM signal because it doesn't contain the PCM coded information that it's looking for. BUT - an interfering PPM signal can keep the desired PCM signal from getting thru, channel conflict is NOT "avoided", control is still lost (goes to failsafe, if set). Best case, if enough of the PCM encoded pulse frames do get thru (e.g., PPM signal sometimes weaker than the PCM), degraded (slowed response) control may be maintained (and may mask an interference or other RF link problem - not necessarily a good thing, particularly when doing a range check!). Some newer PPM Rx (Mpx, FMA, Berg, Sombra, others) use various signal processing techniques to achieve a similar result. Life isn't fair, there's no free lunch, Murphy was an optimist! Pray for the continued development/application to RC of "smart" radio technology (such as SS) to overcome dumass human abuse of available bandwidth! Good Lift! RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
