Yesterday, I found myself wondering; how long has an airplane stayed in a
tree before being retrieved? The thought came to me as I happened to pass
the large oak tree that has held my plane for the last 13 days!
Anyone think they might be holding the record?
Bill Swingle
Janesville, CA
Folks,
I posted this to my club's email list last week, and someone suggested I
post it here as well.
A week ago today, I was out flying my Compulsion (I loved that plane!
:-(). It was a good distance away, but still well within radio range.
Clouds were coming in - still high in the sky, but
Joe Wurts wrote:(about rental winch batteries)
Dave,Any chance of the same deal being available for the TS?JoePS We will remember to finish off the charge on the batteries before usingthem... :-)Joe, the answer is yes.
Rental of batteries for the team select in Oct is still $20.00 each. These
The earlier short-antenna version of this receiver was *horrible*. Terrible
range, glitchy, etc. Karlton called it the splat-master - the title was
well-deserved.
JR has had a quiet recall out on these. They replace the antenna with a
standard-length one and retune them - after which they work
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:23:31AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|I am probably wrong on this issue, but I thought Maynard Hill held the
|altitude record many years ago with an RC model using military ( Navy)
|radar In excess of 20,000 ft (3.78 mi.).
I'll contribute the Skip Miller I ain't got it procedure which I have
successfully used. Slowly pull and hold full up elevator - the plane will
typically start looping and flopping about the sky giving lots of different
angles and reflections of the plane. It also does not come down too fast.
My sympathies! He's what I've done in the past. However, the planes were
usually close to the ground when I lost sight of them. Once, all I had to go
on was my kid saying he'd lost his plane and had no IDEA where it was, but
that's another story.
-Define an area where you're 90% confident the
The Picolario is more than meets the eye or ear.
While it does have altitude reporting, vario and battery voltage reporting
and some memory functions as well, it has one feature that is not as well
understood.
Thats its 'glitch' warning system.
When a glitch happens, the girl reports
9 months 8 days before it was retrieved. Tree was really only a small
bush, but far away from where I thought it landed.
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From: Bill Swingle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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That's a cool story, I hadn't heard that before.
The other thing the Picolario can do is if you have a PCM system, it can
be set up to transmit Attention! anytime your system goes
into fail-safe or fail-hold.
At 11:28 AM 8/27/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The
Picolario is more than meets the
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:41:02AM -0700, Dave Brombaugh wrote:
| I spent the rest of the afternoon searching for it. One thing I learned
| - a 3M plane is pretty big when it's nearby, but when it's potentially
| lost in a huge space, it suddenly seems awful tiny.
That's gotta hurt. I feel for
We should all have a chosen I ain't got it procedure. Don't leave the
choosing until you loose sight of it.
However the specific procedure should be chosen based on the plane's
behavior. Try all methods you can think of. Select the one that has minimal
decent, straightest decent, max flash,
Actually, I stated that wrong, it won't say attention! but
will give you an announcement that you didn't initiate, here is how you
do it...
(From the Picolario user manual, which is online)
Failsafe detection with PCM receiver
They have a predefined setting. You can use the requested altitude
DIRECTIONAL!!
Anything that transmits a signal from the plane and could be received
directionally would be priceless.
Bill Swingle
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Hopefully you'll be able to open this link. The ESL has been using this
system for a long time and it seems expensive - until the first time you
need one.
http://forums.flyesl.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=95
Kerry
DIRECTIONAL!!
Anything that transmits a signal from the plane and could
be
More Piccolario stories,
I did loss my 2m Duck a week ago. With the Piccolario reporting, I was
going in. As the plane got closer to the ground (full crow) the voice
became more distorted. On the ground It reported 4 feet.
I lost the signal temporally walking closer to the plane. This is a good
What is the longest time between the time that a person
has lost sight of their plane and then regained sight
of it and brought it down safely.
Buddy Roos
I lost sight of an old Addiction for several minutes one afternoon. It was
way high, and the durn thing bladed out on me getting back to
What makes me even more spit'n mad, is that if I get tapped on the
shoulder for flying a frisbee in a designated no-fly zone, I'll lose my
FAA issue pilot's license. That's right, I don't have to be operating a
real airplane for them to revoke it.
So, next week I can hardly get to work. If I
If you'd read past the first paragraph you'd probably see if for yourself:
http://www.faa.gov/Newsroom/highlights/rnc_fa2.htm
Chime this, pal.
Kevin
At 10:11 PM 8/27/2004 -0400, Ben Diss wrote:
I have no idea where you got that. Here is the TFR in effect in the NYC area from
Aug 30 - Sep
Sure
looks like it DOES to me! Thanks for posting the pertinent section
Kevin!
-Original Message-From: Kevin Sheen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 9:48
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re:
[RCSE] TFR - 8/27/04Really??Other
Sheldon-
This section does not appear ANYWHERE in the TFR. While I agree that
the TFR does contain the words model aircraft I fail to see why the
AMA doesn't want us to fly.
-Ben
Sheldon - YNT uDesign wrote:
Sure looks like it DOES to me! Thanks for posting the pertinent section
Kevin!
Ben,
You may be pissed at the AMA for 'butting' in, but remember they are the
organization that regulates our model flying operations, IN COORDINATION
with the FAA. So my advice to you is, go ahead and fly where ever you want
to, just don't cause any problems, and if you do, don't come
I'm just conjecturing but maybe we're in a gray area at this time and the
government has yet place us officially under their jurisdiction (FAA)?
Under the banner of national security, etc the government can and probably
would start considering our hobby...Not a good thing for us. I don't know
but
Congrats, good going Gordy!!!
(nice job Marc) 8-)
At 08:47 PM 8/27/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So it was
windy and hot at the louisville field, Marc Gellart calls this morning
and says he's coming my wayget the winch tuned up!'.
We get out there at about 5pm and its blowing and steamy.
LSF
At 09:20 PM 8/27/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I lost sight of an old Addiction for several minutes one afternoon. It was
way high, and the durn thing bladed out on me getting back to the field. I
searched the skies for a few minutes, and finally gave it up. I was
loading the
truck and just
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This is simply an fyi, and is in no means intended to
be a slam. Be careful about expecting a full
charge on the batteries. Full charge to a battery
supplier seems to mean that it will start your car
once.
The batteries we picked up for F3B at the Nats were
good for one, maybe two launches
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