In 2004 I recorded an altitude of 3,604 with my Sapphire using a RAM altimeter. I did loose sight of it for almost a minute.
Not to be outdone, Troy Lawicki flew his 2 Meter Duck to an astounding altitude of 4,077 as announced by his Picolario (witnessed by several people at our 2-Meter contest). He did this in a 10 minute window and made his landing too. http://www.rcsoaring.org/newsmgr/templates/wmss.asp?articleid=62&zoneid=5 Dennis Hoyle WMSS www.rcsoaring.org -----Original Message----- From: Robert Samuels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 5:25 PM To: soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE] How high? Some time ago I put an Avocet wrist altimeter into my 3.2 meter plane and thermalled it up to where I could barely see it. The altimeter max. alt. read 2,400 ft. Recently I read a review of a small on board max. altitude recording thingee and the reviewer said he thermalled his 3 meter up to 2,300 ft. at which point he could barely see the plane. I've had a guy tell me he was able to fly his plane to over 3,500 ft. as measured by a full scale plane that was at the same altitude. (the r/c pilot was on the ground). I don't believe him. Who, among you, have measured how high you can see (fly) your 3 meter? How high were you able to go and still control the plane? Robert Samuels ............... St. Louis _________________________________________________________________ Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search: Try it now! http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=weather&FORM=WLMTAG 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 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
