So far the longest I've seen posted is 5 hours. Most impressive. What type of plane was used for this flight? What time of year?
Mark Howard emailed me back and said Skip was flying a SBXC or a Saggitta XC, he wasn't sure. That's all I know about it, but 5 hours is impressive.
(My neck gets sore after about 25 minutes. I presume folks sit down and lean back a bit.)
The two hour flights we flew this summer were with Unlimited TD models and a RES model. I was flying an ICON lite, Steve Meyer was flying an Escape, and Wayne Fredette was flying a Chicago Style RES. All of us were specked when we made our task time and decided to land to make it count, so we all could have gone longer.
But any LSF V has seen and been over two hours in TD flight, so there are over a hundred guys that have "been there and done that". And for that matter, there are a number of LSF IV's that have witnessed that task, or also have completed that task like myself.
Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV ICQ: 6997780 AIM: InventorJim R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net
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