RE: [RCSE] Visalia
WSM Champ, Mike Smith is up by 5pts over Joe starting today. John -Original Message- From: Paul Emerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 10/8/2006 12:02 AM To: RCSE Cc: Subject: [RCSE] Visalia Well, I'm not there but through the magic of the internet I can tell you this: Weather was very nice to perfect today, and judging by the 2nd round scores, JW is on top. http://www.cvrcsoaring.com/2006_scores.htm (link only shows the 2nd round scores of all classes and I am not sure it is not an old page with the wrong title)
[RCSE] Visalia Score Sheet Corrections coming..likely
There must be some corrections coming, Larry is in MY usual spot and I don't even see my score up there. How can Cody only have about a 100 point? Gordy Louisville today
[RCSE] LASS Mini-Champ Gets 3 LSF2 landings and one 15min Task,MUNCIE
Hi Guys, Our own micro pilot Lee (10 years old) is up at Muncie at the OVSS Year End flying against some big boys, he won three rounds from what I heard but he also got three of his landings for LSF2 and while one round was officially a 12min, they told him he could substitute a 16min so that he could get his 15min thermal task, and he missed 16min by only one second and got a landing to boot! Way to go Lee! Rich Burnowski flying Espada's won the day with Paul Sherman right behind him also flying an Espada., Our own Ron Allen won Sportsman!There were 28 pilots flying, but today its a different game, light winds, warm temps, and a LOT more pilots showing up. My prediction ? Icon-Man Karl will best the group. Gordy
[RCSE] Yep it was Mike Smith and Sharon, USA's Soaring ManPlane of the Year!
Okay I can see him lucking into a win at the Nats and the WORLD Masters, considering the party guys who show up there, but Visalia That's the one spot in the world where dead serious is the theme. "The Most Prestigious Soaring Competition in the history of our hobby" as it was described very late one nite at the beer trailer :-) There isn't a single competitor who doesn't forsake family and job to practice for weeks prior to Visalia. Its notorious virtually gymnastic landing tasks, test the thumbs and skills of the even the steely-est of men's metals.. Okay so its not exactly the epitome of a contest, but it is still the one everyone would love to win and likely the trophy that sits center on the winners mantles. Fun and prestigious with beer ;-) I pity the fool doesn't have a Sharon,and all the USA's soaring hats are off to Mike Smith, soaring's Man of the Year for 2006not kidding. JW did good too :-) Cody's got Skip in the caller's dog house this week :-)Wish you all could have been there, me too :-)Gordy My other plane is a horse..this weekend.
[RCSE] anyone have the Picolario set up on a 9303?
I have it on my right three position switch but can't seem to get one position that turns it off. First position and second are both vario on, third is vario plus altitude. I have played with Travel adjust but no change. Gordy
[RCSE] Getting Bombed at MOSS Field
It was a beautiful early October day at MOSS field, the little berry patch out northeast of Columbus that our new member Gil Perez calls "The Tree Farm" We had clear blue skies, light winds, lgreat thermal lift, a handful of club members, a few visitors to the field and spiders. Lots and lots of SPIDERS! I think these things are called parachute spiders. They sit in the bushes and tree tops and spin out long lengths of spider silk, and when a thermal comes through they go sailing off across the sky. Our planes were coming back with hundreds of strands of spider silk (and presumably some pretty pissed of spiders) draped across the wings. One of the families that strolled by on their way to hike down by the lake had two sons; so we broke out the Air Hogs and did some recruiting. Dad and the older boy both flew air hogs successfully and I have a feeling we may see them again. And we got bombed. I have been wanting to experiment with "bomb drop" as an event for our electric flying. I had made up some fiber board disks about 2 1/2" in diameter, painted white with a big red X and a hole drilled in the midde. We strapped light dowel rodsto the fuselage of some planes just aft of the wings (vertically, like little antennae) and dropped a bomb disk onto the dowel. The idea was to fly over the target, loop or roll or whatever, and let the disk fall off the dowel onto the target. The best Bill Hoelcher or I could do was about 25 yards from the target. I am sure Gordy will have plenty advice for us about getting bombed. Practice practice practice. I hope you all had a good afternoon, too. Tom H. NagelJudicatum Procurator Recuperatio
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[RCSE] Okay if anyone needs the set up for the Picolario and 9103...
I got it figured out so that the three position switch up turns it off, middle offers Vario 'on' and down provides altitude and vario and voltage. AND the trainer button allows you to ask for altitude when you want it, even when the three position has the Pic turned off. If you HAVE a Pic and a 9303, ask me, and I'll give you the settings. Gordy
Re: [RCSE] Okay if anyone needs the set up for the Picolario and 9103...
I have mine set up in the right 3 position switch so that down is offmiddle is on and up gives you the altitude. I forget how I made it work but I can look and see.Mark- Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Soaring@airage.comSent: Sunday, October 8, 2006 9:54:35 PMSubject: [RCSE] "Okay if anyone needs the set up for the Picolario and 9103..." I got it figured out so that the three position switch up turns it off, middle offers Vario 'on' and down provides altitude and vario and voltage. AND the trainer button allows you to ask for altitude when you want it, even when the three position has the Pic turned off. If you HAVE a Pic and a 9303, ask me, and I'll give you the settings. Gordy
Re: [RCSE] Getting Bombed at MOSS Field
Tom Those are some spiders, we had the same phenom at Muncie today Cheers On 10/8/06, Tom Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a beautiful early October day at MOSS field, the little berry patch out northeast of Columbus that our new member Gil Perez calls The Tree Farm We had clear blue skies, light winds, lgreat thermal lift, a handful of club members, a few visitors to the field and spiders. Lots and lots of SPIDERS! I think these things are called parachute spiders. They sit in the bushes and tree tops and spin out long lengths of spider silk, and when a thermal comes through they go sailing off across the sky. Our planes were coming back with hundreds of strands of spider silk (and presumably some pretty pissed of spiders) draped across the wings. One of the families that strolled by on their way to hike down by the lake had two sons; so we broke out the Air Hogs and did some recruiting. Dad and the older boy both flew air hogs successfully and I have a feeling we may see them again. And we got bombed. I have been wanting to experiment with bomb drop as an event for our electric flying. I had made up some fiber board disks about 2 1/2 in diameter, painted white with a big red X and a hole drilled in the midde. We strapped light dowel rods to the fuselage of some planes just aft of the wings (vertically, like little antennae) and dropped a bomb disk onto the dowel. The idea was to fly over the target, loop or roll or whatever, and let the disk fall off the dowel onto the target. The best Bill Hoelcher or I could do was about 25 yards from the target. I am sure Gordy will have plenty advice for us about getting bombed. Practice practice practice. I hope you all had a good afternoon, too. Tom H. Nagel Judicatum Procurator Recuperatio 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] Getting Bombed at MOSS Field
Hi Tom -- Same thing in Louisville, KY today! President Ed was up in Muncie and said he had never seen so many. I guess they all got word via the PSE (Parachute Spider Exchange) that it was lift-off day :) Aside from the air being thick with spiders, they did provide as handy thermal detectors. Tom Nagel wrote: It was a beautiful early October day at MOSS field, the little berry patch out northeast of Columbus that our new member Gil Perez calls The Tree Farm We had clear blue skies, light winds, lgreat thermal lift, a handful of club members, a few visitors to the field and spiders. Lots and lots of SPIDERS! I think these things are called parachute spiders. They sit in the bushes and tree tops and spin out long lengths of spider silk, and when a thermal comes through they go sailing off across the sky. Our planes were coming back with hundreds of strands of spider silk (and presumably some pretty pissed of spiders) draped across the wings. Tom H. Nagel Judicatum Procurator Recuperatio 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] HELP!!! flying in and out of thermals and thermal turns.
First off I am flying a photon II R/E dlg. No flaps, no camber mode, just simple RE poly... I am not sure if anyone can help me but I have been flying through thermals. I have progressed to point where I can tell I just flew through a thermal, and I can circle and fly BACK into the thermal, but I can not figure out how big the thermal is and I can see the plane 'falling' out of the thermal. Any thoughts on how to gauge the size of a thermal, so I know how tight to turn? Also any tips on doing thermal turns so that the circles are tight and so I don't stall then speed up, then stall then speed up. Thanks for any help you can offer... Jay
