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Post by bananaman on Jul 20, 2009 9:48:57 GMT 10
Congrats Eric for winning the Normanby Soaring Challenge at the MRSSA field at Harrisville! Great effort, great flying and wonderful to see some new faces in the top positions. I suspect Sean will be up there soon when he gets the Orca fine tuned and remembers his tailplanes!!! Also Jeff, Jane and Ken when they are able to fly a full weekend comp instead of just a half. Here is a pic of some of the models and pilots. Unfortunately as I took it at the end, some models were packed away and some of the pilots who were there on the first day couldn't make the last.  |
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Post by sean on Jul 20, 2009 10:05:46 GMT 10
Congrats to Ezza for winning his first thermal comp on the weekend. Karl Knack came second and David Vels third. Competition was very tight all weekend with only a few points separating the top 5 or so.
Conditions were absolutely perfect on the Saturday with mostly very light wind (sometimes dead calm). Thermal activity was strong and regular so most people made their times fairly easily.
My Orca flew beautifully, very happy with it. After a shakey first couple of rounds I started to feel a bit more comfortable with it and made it up into 6th by the end of Saturday. But on Sunday I arrived at the field to find I'd left the wingtips and stabiliser back at Victoria Pt where I'd stayed the night. My partner Carla and I met halfway, she gave me the forgotten pieces and I drove back out to Harrisville. But after all that I only got to fly in the last round, having missed four or five rounds. Still I managed to get quite a few flights in after the competition had ended to get a bit more aquainted with the Orca.
Jeff, his wife Jane and Ken all made it out for the Sunday. Apparently the conditions were a bit more challenging on Sunday but I missed most of the day so can't provide any details. By the time I'd got back to the field and flying there were enormous, widely separated thermals passing through. After the comp a few of us were up at speck height doing aerobatics for 20 mins or so in thermals as wide as the field...
Overall I had a great time and looking forward to the next one.
Sean.
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Post by jirvin4505 on Jul 20, 2009 12:32:25 GMT 10
Congratulations Ezza ;D ;D ;D Had a great morning at Harrisville - MRSSA club puts on a great comp  Thanks to all who helped Jane and I to get into the air. This was Jane's first go at Thermal comp after a 8 year break. She managed to do some tricky downwind launches and worked low level lift to a great height. Me... Time I got serious about learning to spot land  I picked up a Supra fuz from Ken Fox - maybe a lightweight thermaller in the shed at some stage. Bananaman gave me some good feedback on my model setup - Need to wind the Rudder coupling down to improve my tight thermal turns. Skyboyken helped out with his powerful throws on launch. I met the new members of the Bundy crowd - competition is looking good. Special thanks to Xena for learning patiently to time for mum and dad. Hard getting the kids into the car and out to a contest on a cold winters morning   The Irvin clan with Dad and Mum's toys ;D ;D cheers jeff |
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Post by chamm37 on Jul 20, 2009 17:55:28 GMT 10
There are great kids you have there Jeff and i am sure they behaved themselves for most of the time  Nice to see all of the windsock guys had a ball and hopefully when i get the Prisim all sorted out i will be flying in comps again ;D Regards, Chris P.S When is the next comp anyone??? |
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Post by mrbonk on Jul 21, 2009 10:23:47 GMT 10
The comp was excellent ;D The random times format was great fun too! Conditions on the Saturday were the best I've flown in so far (having only taken up gliding a few months ago). I don't think I had a single flight where I had to actually go looking for lift. Sunday morning was a different story though, with very tricky conditions (for a beginner) and lots of scratching (and muttering under one's breath) going on in my general vicinity I had a couple of brown trousers moments though where my Fazer (on 2.4Ghz) went off the air completely  First one was at considerable altitude (the highest I've ever flown it) and it did some *way* funky aerobatics until it came back on the air and I was able to get it down to a lower altitude. The second one, however, was right out over the vineyard proper, heading straight down at warp factor 9 and got to below the height of the power lines before it came back on the air I seriously thought I was going to be taking it home in a very small garbage bag  So, even though the nose of the Fazer is all glass, I'm still getting a 'carbon friendly' remote rx so I can have one antenna completely outside the fuz behind the wing. I really don't need any more nasty surprises like those ones! |
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Post by nick on Jul 21, 2009 11:32:35 GMT 10
mr bonk
join my world, is you radio a 9x2 with a module?
or is it something else?
mine didn't come back online with my faser but it also happens with other planes, eg foamies only at the moment, im glad you got her down in one piece ;D
what reciever are you buying as it may help my cause too
see ya
regards nick
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Post by mrbonk on Jul 21, 2009 13:33:04 GMT 10
mr bonk join my world, is you radio a 9x2 with a module? No, it's a brand spanking new DSX9. I'm going the carbon friendly spektrum remote rx (part number is SPM9546). Apparently it will work fine with the DS921 JR rx that I have in the Fazer. I plan to run the antenna out under the wing saddle and then out through the top of the fuz behind the wing. I've only ever had the Fazer go off the air. None of the other stuff I have 2.4 in does it. The rx installation in the Fazer is crap though....all the antennas are squashed flat against the inside of the nose cone, so I'm sure that's got something to do with it. |
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Post by nick on Jul 21, 2009 18:55:32 GMT 10
thanks for that info mrbonk  i don't know what to do yet as i have lock outs with my foamies and the faser once and that was a bad one, the foamies are ok as they bounce. Please let me know how you go with the new receiver, im scared to fix the faser and crash again or better still get a good f3j and punch in. If it was my fault as in pilot error i could deal with that, i once punched a trainer power plane in doing inverted flight thinking i was better than i was, but it hurts when your tx is the fault, many people have felt that one. i have about 5 other planes i have never had ANY radio glitches with, except for standing under the tower at bald knob, i have heard some people say that it could be the servos or servo wire acting as the antenna, i actually flew an electric astro viking at bald knob on sunday for the first time there and no interference from the tower, im stuffed if i can work it out  i have put ferrite rings on all my planes for bald knob but some still can't fly there as interference is too great. any ideas anyone regards nick |
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Nice to see all of the windsock guys had a ball and hopefully when i get the Prisim all sorted out i will be flying in comps again ;D
First one was at considerable altitude (the highest I've ever flown it) and it did some *way* funky aerobatics until it came back on the air and I was able to get it down to a lower altitude. The second one, however, was right out over the vineyard proper, heading straight down at warp factor 9 and got to below the height of the power lines before it came back on the air 
