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Today was not as forecast and in fact was very windy with stronger gusts as the day progressed.
It didn’t prevent anyone from flying and today we had a good turnout with Andrew & Rian joining the usual gang to make a flightline of 7 pilots.
As is often the case Kermit had a couple of those dastardly walks when things went awry & I also had one today after flying into the sun during a manoeuvre and then hitting the ground & removing the nose wheel of the “Li’l Eagle” biplane. Luckily, like Kermits planes, all can easily be repaired.
Ron had his almost complete 3d printed Zero for show and tell today. If when completed it flies as well as Gerald’s 3d printed Cub then I’m sure he will be a happy little vegemite. I neglected to get a photo of it but I’m sure Ron will post a couple with his days report.
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Nice videos. I hope to visit a RC club here this weekend. It’s a 4 hour drive each way and I hope you saw my traffic video a few days ago in last weeks thread.
What are the white posts for and I hope you are flying through them. Looks doable with fpv. And I hope someone can turn Rians cinequad footage into nice video..
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Update on our president ON THAT SITE ……………..Sinker dear boy thank you for your kind words of encouragement im sure it was Ryan’s aerial video that pushed it past the post an boy wasn’t that great flying that lad is fantastic hope we can get more of this sort of joint video editing the boy gave me his SD Card for the clip but there is an awful lot of previous flying from the other end of the field on the card we haven’t seen so if the mob wishes to see it i will produce a a few vids just let me know now as for your video { My video from today,} TOP GUN VIDEO EDITING is conducting classes next week …………please apply ……..snicker snicker ………………………………just sayn PS ….brilliant video predator one day I shall be as good as you
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Great videos from everyone.
BTW Kermit, I think you are easily as good as Pred. That last video of yours was FANTASTIC!
And thanks for the update on the President.
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After a dastardly landing that removed the nose wheel (and most of the nose) from “Li’l Eagle” she ended up once again looking a bit worse for wear.
Given that I had replaced the plywood servo/battery tray at least 3 times due to breakage I decided this time to 3D print one instead. Probably will break just as easily as the ply one but its a whole lot quicker, cheaper & easier to just print a new one rather than cutting one out of ply.
After a bit of gluing & patching she is good to fly again.
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We did a 3.5 hour drive one way to Barradas Airstrip in Batangas Luzon Philippines. It was a windy day, over 20 kts and I was surprised at the good turnout. The oldest flyer at 86 was one of the best. All were good flyers, better than me and some great models. They pay young kids to help with starting their nitro planes and repairing them if they crash! Its an apprenticeship into full time maintenance careers.
No crashes this day apart from a couple of bent nosegear. Smooth grass bu the wind was challenging. One 3D plane came down hard and on my footage but was on long grass and no damage. One western guy (from Alaska) flying the rest all locals, many from Manila.
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BIG NO I don’t even know why you would ask that question Mr sinker as a graduate of TGFS you can easily see the flying standard isn’t nearly as good as our lot shame dear boy shame ………….just sayn
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Dear foreign correspondent HOPPY yes in fact we at TGFS have been training flight attendants since starting at the new field we just don’t call em flight attendants WE CALL em sheep 🐑 and you would be well aware of our outstanding training program including on the spot landing unaided and the best of the best can do (with training ) landing some where . Our past president was the best of the best at that so dear HOPPY we at TOP GUN FLIGHT SCHOOL pride ourselves on flying our way and sorta landing anyway ya can KERMIT LA FROG …manager / chief flight instructor / president of SAVE THE GREEN TREE FROG charity & 2IC of the flight line gang
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Im thinking of getting a TX here to start flying in Philippines. Want a multi protocol TX with side sliders preferably that includes Spektrum DSM2/X and FRSky ACCST or whatever their old protocol is. I can buy a Radiomaster TX12. Any good? Any other options?
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Hoppy the TX12 uses the CC2500 module. it supports FrSky and a few others, but not DSM, you will need a radio with 4-in-1 module. like the Radiomaster Boxer (No sliders) or the TX16
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