Well flew my first F3J event and it was in Denver with Skip Miller.
We had school kids paid to tow, and they were weak, giving me launches 30m
less altitude....
I had wing connector problem on one launch disconnecting the aileron and
that caused a double pop off....zero.
On another flight I was skied out another pilot came over and
we mid aired hard, I got it down but it hit a fence pole and destroyed
the wing.
Today I did a test launch to get the new kids towing some experience.
When I dove to get off the line they stopped towing and I over rotated some, the
line wrapped around my vertical and sawed it off right at the stab pivot, and
both popped off, and destroyed the entire plane.
Tower cost $200 for the weekend, motel and rental car expense approx $800,
two Pikes approx $1,100 and the flight out $450.
F3J in the Rockies cost me pretty close to $4,000. Figure I got 4
actual flights in counting the practice flight...you do the math, I'm gonna be a
little sick :-)
Star Wars was great the other day though! Gordy
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- [RCSE] F3J is not for me...or my Pikes :-( GordySoar
- Re: [RCSE] F3J is not for me...or my Pikes :-( Joe Rodriguez
- Re: [RCSE] F3J is not for me...or my Pikes :-( Steve Meyer
- Re: [RCSE] F3J is not for me...or my Pikes :-( dahearn-RCGroups5355
- RE: [RCSE] F3J is not for me...or my Pikes :-( Jon Stone
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- Re: [RCSE] F3J is not for me...or my Pikes :-( Bob Vixie
- RE: [RCSE] F3J is not for me...or my Pikes :-( Cliff E-Mail
- Re: [RCSE] F3J is not for me...or my Pikes :... Mark Williams
- Re: [RCSE] F3J is not for me...or my Pikes :-( Chuck Anderson