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Old 08-30-2012 | 06:13 PM
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Well I guess I've been flying so much this summer that I had no time to update. I've been flying,flying,assembling,flying.

Mostly working now on knife edge and inverted stuff still. My vision and the wind seems to be the biggest hurdles. My landings are almost always very nice EXCEPT WHEN HAVING TO LAND WITH THE WIND OR IN A STRONG CROSS WIND. I just don't seem to enjoy flying in the wind at all, it seems too much work. I like to be able to watch level flight with no stick movements too much.

4' Piper fly once per week.
SkyFly Max once per week.
Skyfly2 finally got it to fly because of CG was too far back. It's actually a nice flyer.
Switch flew the crap out of it in low wing config and pretty much crashed and wore it out. It is so bad I moved the wind back up to use as a trainer. Much fun and it demos my skills the best.
3' Piper converted to BL is way over-powered and fly it once per month.
2' Piper is overpower and hard to fly once per month or less. Hate it.
Nexstar mini , removed the trainer flaps and ready for 3rd flight. Crashed it and gave it up.
Sensei , pretty good at it. Fly it nearly every morning or at least 6 times per week. I love it.
Cessna 182 ready for 2nd flight, but need to straigten motor shaft. Never fly it, hate it.
Falcon , a bit fragile and only fly it once per month in the calm days. Don't really like it.
Cox skyranger too boring. Nice newb plane.
Cox extra 300 ready to maiden STILL.
Flylite will give lessons with it, kinda boring and slow.
Don't really fly any micros , but have a F-86 ready to go.
E-stik is my most powerful and I'm still a bit sheepish with it, but it's fun.
FW 190 just flew it 6 times today after it's maiden flight a few days ago , and I really like it. Kinda hard too see. Six 10 minute flights in 100 minutes with the same battery , yea. It was great fun till the TX battery went to beeping and needed recharged.
Millennium Master is really cool and it has about a couple dozen flights on it. I like it very much. Kinda hard too see. I fly it almost every other day.
Corvalis 350 I hate it , but it's ok on calm days. It was twisted and used when I bought it. I wish it was gone. Fly 1 time per week.
40" super sportster is really nice and I enjoy it very much, I'd recommend it for anyone. Fly 2-4 times per week.
GP PLuma I tool it around at dusk trying to practise 3-D , NOT. Going ok really.

I'm sure I forgot a few. Next up is a real balsa KIT. I'm actually going to try building one. In the meantime I'll fly a sequence soon. Hmm, nothing more to maiden except that small extra 300 COX plane. Time to shop. My garage is so full of planes that I better get rid of many soon. I'm trying to give them to students if I ever gt to letting them get to flying.