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Thanks Mike !
I will forward this link to Mark. Thanks again for joing us everyone enjoyed your sailplanes and getting to know you. I had the same experience with not realizing Mark was flying with me... I thought it was a tiny bird ! lol
To the best of my knowledge you have Marks info correct. He’s a good guy and amazing on the sticks with that quad. He chases our Freewing F-18s just like he did the sailplanes.
He gave us the raw footage and later this week I will start to go through it and mix it with the stills and other media people are turning into me. I will create a cool video for the event and as time goes on I’ll do specific cuts of individual aircraft depending on the footage I get.... Event video first... the others will be after the flying season treats.
Thanks for the Storch shots ! The plane is still in the dialing in stage. It’s flying, it did it’s fist tow, and I need some independent remote glows so I can fire the cylinders independently. I think my low end is too lean,,,, but it’s flying and I’m tuning. Plus I’ll have to play with getting use to flying using the full flap. It’s pretty dramatic with 40 degrees flap and 20 degrees flaperon.... so I’m in the fun part of the setting things up now.
Today was very relaxed and Stephane towed me a bunch plus a few others. I dialed in the Rhonsperber better. It needed 1 3/4 oz’s more nose weight and now feels much better. It was too skidish and hunting. I’m very close now and I may just bump my battery size to add a little more “usable†weight.
We we got rave reviews from the core club guys and they really enjoyed hosting everyone. I think this will be an event that will continue to grow for as long as we can do it. This weekend was the result of 3-4 years of getting everything to align and set up. Literally joining the club to host this event and generating or finding all that was needed to be able to do intro flights for sport pilots from scratch.
I’ll post pics, and other media as I get it and can get it up here.
Joe
BTW, Next year there will be beans instead of corn. The field is huge when it’s beans. I’m still very new at the thermaling thing. Do bean field generate more thermals? I can use all the help I can get. lol
I will forward this link to Mark. Thanks again for joing us everyone enjoyed your sailplanes and getting to know you. I had the same experience with not realizing Mark was flying with me... I thought it was a tiny bird ! lol
To the best of my knowledge you have Marks info correct. He’s a good guy and amazing on the sticks with that quad. He chases our Freewing F-18s just like he did the sailplanes.
He gave us the raw footage and later this week I will start to go through it and mix it with the stills and other media people are turning into me. I will create a cool video for the event and as time goes on I’ll do specific cuts of individual aircraft depending on the footage I get.... Event video first... the others will be after the flying season treats.
Thanks for the Storch shots ! The plane is still in the dialing in stage. It’s flying, it did it’s fist tow, and I need some independent remote glows so I can fire the cylinders independently. I think my low end is too lean,,,, but it’s flying and I’m tuning. Plus I’ll have to play with getting use to flying using the full flap. It’s pretty dramatic with 40 degrees flap and 20 degrees flaperon.... so I’m in the fun part of the setting things up now.
Today was very relaxed and Stephane towed me a bunch plus a few others. I dialed in the Rhonsperber better. It needed 1 3/4 oz’s more nose weight and now feels much better. It was too skidish and hunting. I’m very close now and I may just bump my battery size to add a little more “usable†weight.
We we got rave reviews from the core club guys and they really enjoyed hosting everyone. I think this will be an event that will continue to grow for as long as we can do it. This weekend was the result of 3-4 years of getting everything to align and set up. Literally joining the club to host this event and generating or finding all that was needed to be able to do intro flights for sport pilots from scratch.
I’ll post pics, and other media as I get it and can get it up here.
Joe
BTW, Next year there will be beans instead of corn. The field is huge when it’s beans. I’m still very new at the thermaling thing. Do bean field generate more thermals? I can use all the help I can get. lol
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