Gordy and group, I got to use the ELV today. It worked great! You just plug the 20 gram transmitter into a free channel, put a 9v battery in the receiver and you're off to the races. We had a hat sucking thermal type of day here with trash bags taking off from garbage cans and circling up into the sky. It was completely cloudless so visibility was very good.
I put the ELV in my Addiction. I launched right into a thermal and immediately started getting feedback from my caller. I was at 200 meters, then 300, then 400...I told him there was a limit of 450 meters (according to your notes) and I expected the signal to drop out, but we kept getting good feedback. I passed 450 and the plane was getting very small. I now had a group of people around as the plane kept climbing in this big boomer. I heard "500" then "go for 550!" I kept circling and drifting and finally started to reach a visibility limit (for me). My caller now was at 600 and I started to come home. I was still climbing. The plane was almost overhead when he called "650!". This is the absolute limit of my vision, I discovered. Any more and I would have lost orientation. I put the plane into a steep descending circle and brought it back to the field, with the ELV giving my caller good feedback all the way to the ground. 650 meters or 2,132 feet is my limit :-) Cool toy. JE -- Erickson Architects John R. Erickson, AIA > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:12:29 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [RCSE] Elv's at my door step > > Hi guys, > Just got home from TN, and found some little ELVs at my door step, so if you > have been waiting, they will be shoo'd away to the post office in the morning. > > I used mine most of tonite... he was really irritable. :-) > > If you are dying to have one of your own. Contact me off line quick... I may > have a spare. > > Gordy > 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.
