Had a great day of flying today. Don't normally get out to fly much but got a lot done today. First up a friend rang the other day to see if I could help him sort a model he was having trouble getting consistent launches with. I happen to live next door to a mile long grass runway that is mostly unused these days so off we went at 7:30 this morning for a couple of hours launch tweaking and speed run practice so he's sorted for next weekends 2 day F3B contest down here.
Got home about 10am and did a few jobs around the house and then tried to think of something to do with the kids (4 & 7). Decided to head out to a gannet colony a half hour away and check out the view etc and see a bit of nature, had flown slope there before so threw in a foamie and at the last minute added the buddy box set up to the car. After checking out the conditions it was out with the model and off we went. Dialed the throws wayyyyy down for them. Both kids have spent time on Realflight on the computer and typically the 4 yr old was better than the 7. Mostly short turns on the controls for them but some got up to a half minute or so before I had to take control back. Absolutely nothing like spending an hour flying with the kids on a Sunday afternoon, talk about one pretty proud Dad. Only thing I wish was that someone was there to take a picture of the kids first flying session. Hope your Sunday is as good. Les. 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
