Yet another Fine Winter’s day flying at the field

[Predator]

With our winter time 11:00 am starts the early morning chill & frost is usually burnt off and today, although it was two coat cold, there was virtually no wind, no rain and for most part a fine & sunny day.

There were 8 pilots today with a variety of aircraft to take advantage of the ideal flying conditions.

I had 5 planes today that all needed testing after iNav firmware upgrades (3 wings & 2 V Tail gliders) and they all got airtime & all flew beautifully.

Likewise Rian was testing a new iNav installation with a SpeedyBee F405Wing Mini in one of his long range FPV planes, he flew for over 1/2 an hour and used less than half his battery capacity so was suitably impressed.

Unfortunately the day was marred by Kermit writing off his “Big Whitie”, we has installed a new receiver after previous problems and it was flying superbly, as you will see in the video (eventually), but Kermit, being the frog that he is just had to push the envelope and unbeknown to the rest of us he had failed to secure the not inconsequential lead counterweight and it moved (a lot) resulting in loss of control & the coming together (rather harshly) of the plane & terra-firma.  It may be repairable but will need a lot of work.

Other than that I think most other planes got away unscathed.

A couple of videos from onboard the BumbleBee.

One from the Excalibur V2, two onboard cameras this time.

and another of Kermit’s “Big Whitie” demise.

[Sinker]

The CRASH

[Predator]

Ah, the crash, in all its glorious high resolution detail & colour.

[Kermit]

[Predator]

You may have some issues with your flying of late Mr Frog but you still do a great job as resident videographer @ the field.

Well done at capturing the essence of the day.

 

 

[Gadget]

Yes, a very good video Kermit.

It was sad to see the demise of Big Whitey.

[Hoppy]

The main thing is you were able to get the crash on video so look forward to the AIB Sandford branch diagnosis. I think Kermit will have it flying again, just needs a few tubes of superglue. Im going flying this weekend but in the meantime went on a boat tour at Langkawi. Lankawi means Island of the Reddish Brown Eagles so plenty of eagles in this footage. With their bird brains they seem to fly without crashing but enough of that…

 

 

[Predator]

Nice clear video there with your new HandiCam Chris, you just need to learn to pan around a bit slower.

[Hoppy]

Here is brief hatcam footage of a 20min flight I had in a Hanuman Hawk built in India bu with an Aussie Jabiru 2200 engine.

 

[Kermit]

Well our forien correspondent MR Hoppy as again produced very nice videos of his confinement in the far east colonies  if he can keep this up maybe he can leave his present job at the take away shop remove his waiter outfit and become a full time travel video grapher …. WELL DONE  MR Clint eastwood hoppy…………………………………………………………………………just sayn

[Kermit]

yes MR HOPPY  the investergation into the demise of big whitey has begun  …we ask all interested partys to reframe from speculation    until the AIB ..TGFS  inverstegation branch conclude their findings ….thank you . CFI .TGFS   KERMIT LA FROG ……………………………………………………………..just sayn

[Hoppy]

3rd video from me this of 2 full size ultralights then 2 RC planes as we had a full day flying yesterday.

 

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