[RCSE] Looking for Mehrdad Amir
Mehrdad... Pls ping me. Lost your e-mail address. Tom 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] "ESL Contest was tough on me today and Deleware's top pilot too!"
Just the facts folks: Gordy was 14th in a field of 22 ESL Expert class fliers. The first place in Sportsman Class (14 entries) beat him too. We had 9 in RES (including 3 Novices) for a total of 44. Good Lift! Skip Schow AMA143, LSF 166 (V #46) CD
[RCSE] SOAR OVSS #8 Fred Fredrickson contest
The weather cooperated today, and we got one of the wildest weather days I have ever flown a contest in. This was some crazy air and it was humbling everyone. I saw John Diniz (Supra) and Marc Gellart (Insanity) fly the better part of a 12 minute task under 200'. I saw TK's big red ICON swatted down HARD from about 20' fast as you could snap your fingers, and he had energy and was flying fast. Never seen a plane blown into the ground like that from weird ground turbulance. Many of us including my self were swatted into the ground on landing approach. Flying with a bunch of good friends today, Henry Bostick was up from Texas, Marc Gellart and Sieb came in, along with Larry B. and Phil G. John Diniz came up, so did Glaco. Old timer SOAR guys were out, and the new guys were tearing up the sky as well. Scores were all over the board, and the burials were deep and strong. I had a freekin' blast, I really didn't keep track of my numerical score, I just kept an eye on the flight group I had to fly in next. I really didn't care, I haven't had a chance to contest in awhile and I was just having fun watching everyone fly and waiting for my next shot in the crazy air. McCarthy made some Chili dogs on the field so we could all help with thermal generation. A car magazine testing group came by to watch us soar a bit, they had a Ferrari F430, a Bently twin turbo, a Maserati Spider, a Lamorghini Galardo, a Corvette C6 Z06 and a Ford GT in their entourage. We all got to check out the cars, cool rides. After six 12 minute rounds, It was Ben Roberto on top today flying a Supra! Congrats Ben! Tomorrow is day two... ;-) Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR AMA 592537LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net 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] "ESL Contest was tough on me today and Deleware's top pilot too!"
So I met Joe Melchoir at the motel in Manassas last nite, this morning we loaded the planes in the back of the pick up, and headed toward the field. We were almost there, when I had a feeling that I should check the stuff in the back. Sure enough Joe's Mantis fuse had blown out! We drove all the way back to the start, about 40mins to find that it was pulverized on the highway. We ended up back at the field just in time for the first flight, the weather was awesome and there were quite a few pilots. I had brought the world's heaviest carbon Supra and my Perfect and Joe and I had registered on the same freq, so we managed to fly the whole day with out a problem. Joe fell in love with the Supra, especially when he ended up crushed in sink just after a great launch, then worked a handlaunch bubble at tree top for the whole 10mins! Since it wasn't man on man, I decided to fly all my own air, and got caught twice for several minutes of lost time in the 8 rounds we flew. Well with Tom Kiesling, Phil Barnes, Mike Lachowski and Josh Glaub, losing any points is the kiss of wood death :-) It was awesome getting a chance to fly with them again, great guys all. No regrets considering things could have been worse, but tomorrow's another day and another chance to see all the guys fly and for me and Joe to have a less dramatic start! :-) Wish you were here! GordyWarrenton VA
[RCSE] cost of r/c soaring-winning
While I enjoy flying my Supra it still comes down to skill and determination. My AVA was second only to Wurts and his Icon in our Sc2 yearly champs last year and has kicked many an unlimited butt. Cheaper? Ask Merrill Brady he got me with a twenty dollar plane. Thomas Akers started with a gentle lady he flew for years, placing in many Sc2 contests. later he earned money to build more high performance planes. Now he runs a large RPV company. I built all my planes that were flown at the worlds in 85. Any sport requires expense at the high end. R/C soaring can be enjoyed with very little cost, Gentle Lady or foamy and 3 channel radio. Wurts beat a lot of good flyers with a foamy at the Rose Bowl (not me) one year and placed in top ten at the Nats in Riverside with a plane who's fuselage was made from the cardboard box the kit came in. Most clubs have a club plane to teach on. No expence. The point is you don't have to spend a fortune to enjoy and win at R/C soaring. Mike Reagan ,Looking forward to the Masters
[RCSE] For Sale: HS-5625MG Servo, boxed, never used
$40 includes shipping (mailed) Continental US. Thanks, Richard
Re: [RCSE] What about a BBQ at the Soaring Master's????
I'll be camping there, so if there is a BBQ, I'll eat it! :) ben wilson louisville area soaring society http://www.louisvillesoaring.org Danny C Williams wrote: I was just thinking / wondering ( I know a rare thing...thinking that is...but anyway ) Is anyone going to do a BBQ at the WSM Dr. Danny Williams D.C. "Silence is golden, But Duck tape is silver" Colorado Springs, Colorado 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] 'Affordability of the Sport' ? ...
In a message dated 9/6/2006 10:28:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There needs to be a less expensive way to gain the experience and to recognize the resultant increase in skill levels. Harold hits the nail on the head ... The reality facing a novice of dropping a thousand bucks or more on an aircraft and (maybe) the same on a radio and p'haps half that much on incidentals is enough to make a 'grown man cry' ... Can a beginner afford such ? ... who wants to afford such and then not even know if s/he can fly that glider, use that radio, understand the incidentals just purchased ? ... Bill Warren ( http://www.aerosphereonline.com/- OPENING SOON ! ) and Ray Hayes at Skybench ( http://skybench.com/ ) are making a concerted effort to keep the cost of soaring down to an affordable level and by so doing, hopefully, will attract more novices to our grand hobby ... Their websites are (and will be) a wealth of information about the sport, the basics, the costs to be expected and much more ... Thousand Dollar 'hard body' zoomies won't be found here ... When you have interested folks show up at your field, refer them to these guys and then, take a few minutes away from your flying to answer questions, do a 'Show and Tell', let 'em even fly one (at a safe altitude, of course) - in other words, get 'em involved ... If we don't plant the seeds to grow this hobby, than we're gonna get nothin' but weeds ... Pepper TPG ~ SLNTAMA # 3937LSF # 3335 - IV
Re: [RCSE] LSF Discussion
What is the point of entering a contest if you do not want or try to win. The fun develops from that desire and ambition. If we end up losing and can only have fun if we won, then we do not know the true meaning of competition. Chad I think that's what is wrong with so many current contests with the emphasis on win, win, win and not enough emphasis on fun. Why not back off a little and put some fun back. Fly events that don't require a moldie. Maybe a round of three-for-fifteen and a few rounds of two minute precision. That's how I learned to land on the spot on time over 30 years ago and it can be done with an Oly II or Gentle Lady. And be sure to have a Novice class with best trophies for them. I have been flying contests on one type or another since 1950 and I don't really care for another trophy unless it is for a really important contest. For the rest, just announce my name if I place. Of course I don't have to worry about that very often any more. :-) Chuck Anderson 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
Re: [RCSE] LSF Discussion
In Boy Scouts you have to earn various merit badges to advance to the different levels of achievement. How ever in each of the merit badge books you have a list of requirements you must completed to earn that merit badge. Usually about 7 or 8 steps. 3 or 4 of the steps are required but their are several other steps that give the boy a choice in which steps he would like to choose to finish the rest of the requirement. How about keeping the original current requirements for LSF I-V. Creat one or two optional requirements that would be just as time consuming, hard, and challanging as the current standars. Thus giving the choice to the participant while not diminishing the standards that those who have already completed the levels have attained. Personally I would vote for the levels just as they are, but this might help draw more into the sport. Or maybe not. No sport or organization I have ever been in has not had its percentage of participants that want to change the calculations, rules or whatever. Chad Paul Emerson wrote: "replacing competition requirement with non-competition tasks that provide a comparable level of challenge and skill development" To re-create a "comparable level" to a competition there would have to be a task that required you to launch on a specific day, at a specific time, regardless of conditions, with an unexpected field repair, and a gaggle of bozos to sucker you into some bad air, and a timer who may or may not read the air correctly and give you bad advice, who will talk too much and countdown all wrong, and stop the timer a full second late, and at least a dozen peers to watch you launch and land, wishing the best for you, but most hoping to beat you, and some playing mind games and/or talking trash to you, and then there is the added lust for an "I beat Gordy" pin, not to mention wanting to score higher than all of your other club buddies, all this after having spent the night in the back of your truck after driving 600 miles and slowstick nightflying until 3 AM and you are getting a weird rash from being out in the heat for three days . . . ;-) Paul LSF I 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
