3000 feet video flight
I made it to over 3000 feet today. The GPS overlay board measures the altitude in meters.
It read at its peak 1068 meters. Our field is at 32 meters above sea level. I didnt fly by
video but I had someone watch the video monitor and call out the altitude, I told them not to
stop till it reached four digits! The plane was visible, barely, my eyes were glued to it.
The orange panel on the underside of the wing I added really helped! Its white with an orange
stripe on one wing, orange with a white stripe on the other.
The plane is my faithful SIG LT40 Heavy Lifter (I mean heavy!) The 1072 sq inches of wing
really hauls a load, the OS 46 FX really helps!
I mounted the dipole externally via RG174 coax pointed up and the 1 watt transmitter put out
a clean signal, I am sure it would have gone higher!
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