Roll up! Roll up! for a Great Weekend (29 -30th Sep.)

[Ron]

Apologies for not keeping up.

About 4 months ago I had a sudden and severe pain.
Cut long story short... I was eventually whizzed up to hospital in Cork with an aortic aneurism, right up near the heart.
Straight into ICU.

So, been 'doing nothing' like a good boy while taking blood pressure lowering pills.
Latest C/T scan shows the main problem has virtually healed, but there is a smaller secondary 'problem' that informed opinion says needs a plastic pipe and two jubilee clips.
No that's not right.
Needs a stent.
So waiting on the consultant's appointment system.....

Hence the doubt about getting to Big L.

Flying two at once may pose a slight problem, especially as I've only got one transmitter  :?
(And one head, and that's not much good at flying one at a time)

But maybe following someone else's glider.......

One good thing is, it's got a brilliant Return To Home function.
Hit the switch and it flies back and lands itself.
Does that with signal failure too.

Now if I could just get a glider to do that  

[Happy Days]

oooOOOOooo, I bet that’s knocked your confidence. Sounds rather scary.  You need lots of R+R.  We all hope it goes well for you Ron. :wink:  You’ll be running up and down those slopes in no time.

As for the Return to Home function, and lands itself hu! If that isn’t cheating I don’t know what is! ! :roll:

K.

[Ron]

Thanks Keith.

Yes, you know the old saying.... If at first you don't succeed - cheat  :twisted:

[Richard Boyd]

Hi Ron , hope your stent placement goes well and your back out flying soon.
Your video is looking good , well done.

[Ron]

Thanks Richard.

Cloud base zero feet today, so no flying here  

[Richard Boyd]

Hi Ron raining cats and dogs here as usual  :!:
I meant to say try using deshaker on your videos, I have found it makes them look smooth.

[Ron]

Hi Richard,

Sun's out here now, but wind is way too high, and from the NW, so no use to me.

Yes I do sometimes use the 'stabilisation' thingy, but just threw that lot together in a hurry.
As it was, it came from 1080 source files and took 3 hours to export at 720.
Have to get a newer, faster computer  :oops:

[gerryb]

hi ron,

congrat's on beating that aneurism, you're a walking miracle!!!  some years ago i was told if you got one, you had a 50/50 chance of getting to hospital alive and then you had a 50/50 chance of surviving the surgery.

now, i'm not much into betting, but i thing those are pretty long odds, so well done and best of luck with the recovery.

regards,  gb

[Ron]

Thanks Gerry.

Yes they told me at the hospital that I was a very 'interesting case' because most people die before they get there  :shock:
And I was lucky to be alive.

Actually I'm double lucky, because the first time the pain hit it was misdiagnosed as muscle spasm.
Understandable under the circumstances.
So under the influence of pain killers, a few days later, I went to the boatyard and out to my mooring, and was pulling on an outboard starting cord, when it hit me again.
Had to get ashore and home by myself, not knowing what it was.

This time the local hospital did a C/T scan and the consultant came rushing in shouting for an ambulance to Cork.

Anyway, thanks all for the good wishes.
Still waiting for a stent, assuming the chief surgeon thinks that's what's needed.
I reckon gaffer tape should do it  :wink:

[johnfireball]

Hi all,
      Frantically assembling my latest model for hopeful appearance on Saturday. Is Mt Leinster ok in ese winds?
John.

[Happy Days]

Well, not really John. It is possible to fly in ESE winds but it’s a long walk to the slope and unless there’s a howling gale the slope only produces light lift. (It’s actually at the far end of the south slope which curves round a little bit to slightly face SE.)
It can be flown but it is difficult,…..unless your name is Fred Marie! :roll:

At the moment the winds are forecast as SW to N over the course of the two days.

What are you bringing with you John?

K.

[johnfireball]

Heres a Pic, it's an oldie 2m span glass fuse,wardrobe find . Anyone guess what it is?

[johnfireball]

Hi Keith,
          All my website forecasts are showing east to southeast winds all weekend.
John.

[Happy Days]

Hate to say this John, but I think you might be looking at the wrong weekend!!!!! :wink:
The glide - in is not this coming weekend, it’s next weekend (29th - 30th )

The model looks very interesting. To my mind it looks a little bit like a Jart.  I know it’s not,….I’m just saying in my opinion it's similar. Love the big rudder / elevator  and the swept wings. I’ll look forward to seeing that one airborne.

K.

[johnfireball]

OOPS!  And here's me charging batteries.
John.