Vow Buflash
Welcome to the Club! [:@] Seems to me that like some RCU threads and a few modellers, models may also have a life and mind of their own. Do you think that these tree hugging critters are trying to deliver a message here? I dont quite understand what these models and modellers are trying to say here - that there shall be no trees at all, or that there shall be no idiots at all. Well, anyway, neither is a possibility in a real 'green' world. My 'flying field' where I lost that limbo dancer in the tree is about a hundred yard long, but only 100 foot wide, there is a 150 foot high tree line at one end and Lake Ennel (lilliput fame) at the other. On sunny evenings there are cars parked all along the lake shore and joggers, horse riders and dog walkers continually criss cross the only landing patch. Only and idiot will fly a 44 cc powered 3D self design at this location.
Because of safety concerns during this busy summer season, I have recently started flying a hundred yards down the lakefront, This patch has a knee high wild growth all along but does have a runway the width of a car track. Here the trees are sparse and not as high. It is indeed great fun to take off and land on a three foot wide 200 foot long 'Run way' which has ruts about six inch deep at either side. Loose an engine or make a mistake lining up and touching down and you are sure to get at least your covering iron and solar film scraps out.
The takeoff routine is simple - line up at the straightest part of this curvilinear track, elevator trim a few notches down, get on your knees, hold the tail, push the throttle up with your chin and let go at full blast. once airborne, try to fly level for about fifty or so feet and then pull vertically up or a hard right climbing turn- lest you want to end-up in some trees again. [img][/img]
I am attaching a recent picture of my older flying site.
Enjoy