ORIGINAL: Not24
ORIGINAL: Ed Cregger
Are you limited by a club rule, or just by the physics of the situation? Just curious.
Ed Cregger
There are no rules governing model size at our field. It's just that we fly what we are comfortable with. My friend has a P-38 that he wants to try, but he's been scared by the amount of runway we have for landing. It's got 2 OS 91fx's on it. I know it can be done, but it would be a nail biter on that first attempt.
We also don't have a bunch of young guys with competition flying on their minds, so we don't really have anything larger than quarter scale out there. One guy has introduced rotor wing birds. We are excited about that. I flew his big gas powered one last week. What a blast!
He'd be surprised how fast tri gear planes slow down if he nails it near the threshold. Or get some netting and get a coupl e guys down the other end. We've done that on the first few flights of a DF jett until the guy gets the hang of it.