Flight 7

Back to the beach in a stronger 15 mph breeze. Slightly gusty but not much. This time the beach was wet and silty so our last landing strip was a no go. Instead we used a hardened part of the silt beach which was fairly runway shaped. Approx 50 x 15 metres so good for practice but also surrounded by holes filled with sea water. I have a pic of one of my emergency landings but still can't post on my laptop.

Today I probably made 6 take offs and 6 landings. 4 landings were dead stick which I can't fathom as it ran fine for last visit. Of the dead stick landings I overshot the runway on two and short on one. The other was a great landing. It got harder when the wind dropped as it seemed to effectively shorten the runway. Which I suppose it does.

I'm going to take the fuel tank out and check the clunk and other pipes for free flow. Then I guess it's back to tuning but I've taken it to peak and dropped a few hundred rpm and still dead sticks. Normally at around 50 - 70% throttle so perhaps I need to look at low end needle.

I was flying even better today with loads of aerobatics. I even did a few stalls high up to get a feel for how to recover them. Again finding it easier and easier to manoeuvre quickly and the way I intend. I'll keep flying the trainer for a while a I need servo screws and I seem to have. Definite fuel issue on my low wing.

I tried to get my friend to video but his phone wouldn't focus on the plane.

due to several heavy landings the rear wheels have both broken free from their fixings an one has broke away from he epoxy too so they need refitting. Again just a few minutes work.

i have a photo of a low pass I made but need access to here on my laptop. I'll try another browser tomorrow and see if that works.

I also have a small cheap video camera due any day so ill treat you to some in flight footage very soon.


At the same time as flying m friend was too. He had a mishap; he was about 300 yards away when he lost all radio control.i advised he walked towards the plane which was circling on its own but getting lower with every circuit. After around two minutes he regained control but was around 500 yards away and you could barely even see his plane as its all white.

Anyway he has 35mhz Sanwa and his aerial was up. We later range checked it and with the aerial down got around 400 yards distance. With aerial up I got bored of walking at 700 yards.

So what could of caused such temporary loss of control? Very lucky boy to get it back. The area has no pylons or potential for interference so I'm stumped.

also, anyone else struggling to post on here with a computer?