wow...i'm glad you had a good day and you had the place to yourselves....those are perfect conditions for sure. so thats pretty cool, you have to sign off on the solo deal. when i was training last fall, it was myself and one other guy plus our instructor. he was training both at the same time...it was a really fun time. ..but he had his hands full, thats for sure. the por guy, he couldnt even fly his own planes very much because we were always there nagging him to take us up. i think i was on the trainer box for like a month or so and finally bought and assembled my own trainer and brought it to the field. after fixing the c.g. to make it flyable, my instructor took it up. the thing went really good. i had my own trainer box and chord so we used my stuff and it was so much better than the club equipment. we did the buddy thing twice and on the third try, he let me do the take off. he said "here we go, now what are you going to do?"...i replied.."i'm going to throttle up slowly until i get the plane where it's straight and steady and then to full throttle and ease back on the elevator and climb out at 25 degrees, bank left and throttle back when i get to a safe altitude. so i took over as he watched. it was picture perfect and every take off has been the same...so scale looking... he's like..."well, i guess you got that down pretty good"..."you nailed it". look at me ramble on here. enough of that business...haha.

so anyway, we're going tomorrow and fly off the snow with the float planes. i put the floats back on the duraplane 20 today and balanced it up. the battery is cycling now and she'll be ready to go. i have a 40 engine on the thing..it's got plenty of zip with the 10/6 prop. i could probably put an 11/5 on there but i'm too lazy to change it. besides that, i've flown this thing already off the snow the way it is and it goes awesome. the best thing about the snow covered field is, your runway is "everywhere"...it's a riot...land way over there somewhere...taxi around a bit and take off again...land it over here..holy crap....it's endless fun. i cant wait.

well, i'm going to put my radio on the charger now i guess...(futaba 7cap)....i should probably cycle that battery a couple of times too. i think i will. i'll fill you in on our fun tomorrow or sometime don...hopefully have some pictures too. have a good night and a fun day tomorrow. "lets fly!" you guys have super weather out there...it's not fair. i'm coming out to see you. here's a pic from our last snow adventure. there was barely enough snow to take off and land on. we've got plenty of it out there now. they say there's another storm coming for sunday into monday.....what the heck? see ya i hope we stay away from those DTA"s. hahha. i'll have to remeber that one see ya don