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Post by nick on Feb 25, 2010 18:05:28 GMT 10
Yeh i wore my fingers out
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Post by thevon on Feb 28, 2010 20:22:07 GMT 10
Nick and I checked out a ridge near Kilcoy today. It's very much a private property, and I've been trying for quite a while to organize a day to meet up with the owner. He was home today so I decided that despite the bad forecast we should front up and meet with him. He let us go up and came up to do some slashing and watch us. We had to walk up a HUUUUGE long steep hill (I was stuffed, and it was hot and humid) but at the top we were rewarded with a gentle easterly. The ridge has numerous saddles, bends and bowls, so there's lots of potential for different directions. We're very keen to see how it goes on a big wind day, and particularly in a southwesterly since there's a big steep bowl facing directly SW with nothing obstructing the wind for a long way. It's definitely a case of softly softly with this owner, but we're hopeful that we can get a good relationship going. If so, we'll try to get permission to get a few more guys out there but it will never be an open spot. Very common for property owners to be happy with 3 or 4 guys but dead set against as many as a dozen. They're very worried about liability and loss of control against d!ckheads coming out without approval.
Then went up to another spot near Maleny and had a good fly - love that Fazo. Then got rained on but that was OK. Jarred and Nick braved the drizzle and had some Weasel fun. I had to leave just as Nick was realizing that the wind was dying and he wasn't gunna be able to maiden his D40 today!
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Post by thevon on Mar 4, 2010 18:34:01 GMT 10
Nick came all the way down to Redcliffe to say Hi, quick shed visit, and for a fly at Woody Point. It was great, actually. Good solid lift band. He flew the Booby and Weasel, and I flew the Vector. The Booby looks weird but flies very well. It has a separate elevator so you can use crow to slow it down!
There is a nice soft patch of tall grass at the moment so it was easy to land. Weasel was great too, and I had to hold Nick back from trying to DS it behind the small trees. Dangerous stuff there - really crappy rotors and the ground rising behind the tree, so it's best not to spend much time in the shadow of the trees.
The Vector was beautiful to fly as usual. Wish I was more skilled to exploit its potential. At the end the wind got stronger and stronger as a shower came in, and I decided to be wise and not land on the slope again, but on the beach ... and when I got down there found that the weather has ripped a lot of the sand away, exposing rocks and making the beach narrower. But it landed OK, then skiied along and down the sloping sand to the edge of the water! We both did the 25 yard dash to pick it up before a wave came over it! Good fun.
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Post by nick on Mar 4, 2010 18:46:26 GMT 10
Hi Andrew just got in the door, thanks for a fun arvo and showing me your vac bag setup. take care regards nick
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Post by aussiejarred on Mar 7, 2010 19:02:39 GMT 10
awesome day up the knob, was gonna head to Tbones, but ended up staying after the moment the pike left my hand! looking at my radio, i have had just over 3 hours flying on the pike, and im still loving every second of it!, getting my landings CLOSER, but still not close enough haha! anyway, twas a great day, bit windy imo to drop her over the backside... after everyone had gone, i was doing massive sweeps in the forward most rotor region from the gate right though to the trees on the ese face! banked over the whole way, looked bloody awesome!!!!
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Post by aussiejarred on Mar 9, 2010 13:32:01 GMT 10
gday mates! today i decided being there not much wind, i would throw dads Parkzone Radian up into the sky just because there was hardly any wind, and thought a gentle relaxing fly would be great! anyway, so i chucked her out, climbing gently, and as i normally do, i cut the motor off after about 20 seconds, around the hight of the rainforest to the left of my dads farm. anyway, so i was gliding and saw the wing come up, and so decided to turn into it and investigate, and low and behold, A THERMAL! now i knew there would be thermals today, but it wasnt my purpose. anyway, after flying the thermal for around 2 mins, i started the timer on my radio, thinking it may turn into something, and boy george it did!!!! I have NEVER experienced as many thermals as I have today, i seriously cannot believe it!, i was able to pick and choose which thermals i wanted and where, because they were pretty much everywhere! so after gaining height to a solid 200m, I decided to try seans method of looking at my windsock and heading the direction it was facing, don't ask me how it works, but i had great success following this method! , i found the strongest thermals were wherever the windsock was pointing too! anyway, so i just got down so excited to tell you all! my new PB! 1 hour 46 mins with around 20 seconds of motor power YIPPEEE!!!! there were a few times when i thought damn it, ill have to use the motor, but every time, a ground thermal gave me the lift ticket back into orbit! there were a couple times where my windsock was actually past horizontal and heading to vertical because the thermal was so strong! so after finishing my run, i gave it to dad who had been out shopping, and he had a ball, the thermals were still running thru, and it really helped my dad to get a firm grasp on thermalling, he has got it in the bag pretty much now! anyway, if you see this in time HEAD TO YOUR THERMAL FLYING GROUNDS NOW and you'll be up up UP AND AWAY!!!! happy thermalling Jarred
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Post by aussiejarred on Mar 9, 2010 13:34:02 GMT 10
ps: screw this, im going to thermal again, this time, im bringing a waterbottle with me haha!
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Post by bananaman on Mar 9, 2010 15:10:28 GMT 10
If only it was always that easy. Maybe another convert in the making?? You can always do both. Those Radians are quite good for a rudder elevator model, they sit in a thermal nicely.
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Post by thevon on Mar 9, 2010 19:26:01 GMT 10
Hey that's brilliant Jarred! Hard to believe really!
I had to laugh at "and boy george, it did". Not sure if you meant that deviation from the "by George" exclamation, but you may have started a new twist to the language. Think I'll start saying it myself. (slightly effeminate voice required).
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Post by aussiejarred on Mar 9, 2010 19:50:35 GMT 10
haha, well i have only ever heard the saying, not seen it written down, just like the aussie anthem goes 'australians all let us ring joyce' right?
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Post by mikey100 on Mar 9, 2010 21:19:56 GMT 10
Great report Brian, tho a shame to travel so far and have so much go wrong.
Jarred, well done on the PB...you will have to come to BR one day and give your Pike a sling off the bungee and put your thermal skills to use. Might even be able to tempt Andrew into dusting off the Espada and joining us.
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Post by cdsloper on Mar 10, 2010 7:57:42 GMT 10
Hey Jarred, Congratulations on a great thermal fly. Those are the days that will get you well and truely hooked, so look out. I was working yesterday and was watching all those puffy little clouds constantly forming and wishing, "if only I had a spare hour I'd throw the Easy Glider Electric up." Don't expect days like that all the time though or you'll be very disappointed. I grew up in a valley that was a very good thermal trigger point. About 20. . . no 30 years ago I built and flew a 100 inch floater called an "Inglefinger" With an OS 10 on a power pod ( still got that plane by the way) and it was rare to get flights under an hour. I would often have to spin my way down cause my plane, that little dot in the sky, was getting way too hard to see. It was only a number of years later when I was flying Ultralights that I realized what a fantastic thermal trigger point my home really was. I could be flying around the countryside in relatively smooth air then enter my valley and get kicked around from here to kingdom come.
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Post by chrisbchips on Mar 11, 2010 21:55:08 GMT 10
Sounds like everyone had a great weekend gliding! I've only just recently gotten into gliding a bit more seriously. I have been really dedicated to my IMAC aerobatic flying but I'm taking a bit of a break and having alot of fun gliding! So far I have designed 2 gliders, a DLG called the 'Olympic 1200' and a slope soarer called the 'DynaSoar 900'. The Olympic has been going for a while now, but the DynaSoar 900 just had its first flight last weekend! As you know there was much wind last weekend but I decided to head up to Rosins lookout (Beechmont) for a go anyway, and it turned into a fantastic day! Anyway, I thought I would post a link to a short (low quality) video my dad took of it on one of its first flights that day. And I've also attached a link to my website www.aerovinyl.com And here's the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPVkajtWH9I Cheers, Chris B.
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Post by thevon on Mar 11, 2010 22:16:43 GMT 10
Welcome aboard Chris. Thanks for the post and the video. Is the laser cutting any good for cutting templates from laminex etc, for hot wire cutting?
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Post by aussiejarred on Mar 11, 2010 22:39:21 GMT 10
wow!!!!!! thats maddd, checked your website, that laser sure is harsh! precise also... NICE! have you attempted for example, a real nice light thermal glider?
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