[RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity

2007-12-24 Thread Lincoln Ross
I don't know about you guys raving about the Uber planes, but for me, the best glider is one that's just barely good enough* to have good flights on the particular day in question. While I think the spot landing is a very good thing, not least for safety reasons**, I would like the pilot's ther

Re: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity

2007-12-24 Thread TJB
nch on any type of winch. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Erickson Cc: Soaring List Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 10:41 PM Subject: RE: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity Why must people take these simple ideas and suggest that the result might end up at an unacceptabl

RE: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity

2007-12-23 Thread mike
on: RCGroups.com> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:19:00 -0600> To: soaring@airage.com> Subject: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity> > > One other thought. The winch setup at the Nats was excellent with> regard to reliability and uniformity. In addition, I did not find the> winches so pow

Re: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity

2007-12-23 Thread rmong
- ( read larger drum dia. ) I wonder if this, coupled with the high winds lead to some of the carnage . Ron Mong - Original Message - From: "dharban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:19 PM Subject: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity One other t

Re: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity

2007-12-23 Thread Darwin N. Barrie
n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "dharban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Soaring List" Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity Or the set up at Visalia. Very few line breaks considering how many launches they go through on a weeken

Re: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity

2007-12-23 Thread John Erickson
m: dharban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: RCGroups.com > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:19:00 -0600 > To: soaring@airage.com > Subject: [RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity > > > One other thought. The winch setup at the Nats was excellent with > regard to reliability and uniformit

[RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity

2007-12-23 Thread dharban
One other thought. The winch setup at the Nats was excellent with regard to reliability and uniformity. In addition, I did not find the winches so powerful that they blew my hair back (at least what's left of it).Perhaps someone who was responsible for the set up of these winches would like to c

[RCSE] Re: Launching Sanity

2007-12-23 Thread dharban
As Darryl Perkins suggested elsewhere, the amount of resistance required for the FLS will be different from the Bosches that are commonly used in FAI. The Bosch is nominally an 1100 Watt motor -- roughly the equivalent of 1 1/2 horsepower. According to Injoy, their standard motor which now repla