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Thermal / Flat field / Hi from a newbie:)

« on: January 11, 2012, 21:28:59 PM »

Fair play, thanks Keith! If I don't get accepted for the club I'll give Fred a shot and get my maci membership through him.
Thanks for the offer of flying in Wexford, I have some work in Wexford in the middle of march so I'll try and make it to that glide-in if it's around the same time or maybe give you a shout and you can show me the wonders of slope soaring:)
Alan

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Thermal / Flat field / Hi from a newbie:)

« on: January 11, 2012, 11:34:46 AM »

Thanks Fred & Gerry! Appreciate your offer to fly sometime Gerry, very kind of you and I may take you up on it sometime. If I can ever swing a fishing/flying trip in the lough derg area I'll give you a shout. The missus is at me about becoming an RC widow, so we'll see what happens!

don't know if this will work, but hopefully here is a pic of the sky climber, after it's first flight repairs, in which it took a horrible nose dive into the ground very shortly after flight, easily repaired thankfully! I later found out that the aileron channel was reversed, my bad:(



Keith, that's a nice looking glider of yours, what mods have you made to it?

I'm mostly into flat field flying, but it is early days and I might drop down to one of your glide ins this year, always good to see what's going on.
I never did get back to the sopwith pup, my real love is scale flying so hopefully I'll get something scale flying this year, I think the pup got lost in one of my house moves.
I have been flying in a friends fields in Laois and Kildare upto now, until I'm in the local club anyhow, then I'll have to fly with an instructor for a bit.

I get around the country a lot with work so I'm hoping to lug a plane with me and fly in a few diff locations once I have that test thingy passed and am allowed on my own;)

Alan

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Thermal / Flat field / Hi from a newbie:)

« on: January 09, 2012, 22:10:42 PM »

Thanks guys! Nice welcome indeed:)
Good unpretentious advice is just what I'm looking for, used to forums where quite the opposite is true!
Keith I used to have a petrol high wing trainer, a precedent hiboy or something like it, seriously underpowered, horribly built(by myself I admit) and an absolute pig in the air. Eventually got passed crashing it into the ground and made a few flights out of it. Then built a scale sopwith pup which I never got the nerve to fly before leaving the whole rc hobby behind me for a few years.

Recently decided to get back into it but was apprehensive as I'd only got memories of me crashing so I chose a nice slow powered glider to learn on and hit phoenix simulator for a few days before taking the glider out. (I'll try get a pic of it up 2moro) made 4or5 good flights with decent landings and was delighted with myself!
How long have you been slope soaring for? What plane have you got now that your passed making kindling too?

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Thermal / Flat field / Hi from a newbie:)

« on: January 09, 2012, 20:11:11 PM »

Hey all, don't know if I fit into this section or some other, just re-started in rc after a fair few years absence. Recently bought a nine eagles sky climber, a nice powered glider and have had my first few successful flights, hooked to say the least:) In the process of joining my local club and thought I'd search out some active forums and say hi:)