ORIGINAL: Deadeye
Scenario:16 oz electric Fromosa. Wind speed 30 MPH gusting to 45+. Top speed of the Formosa, 35 MPH.
Launched into the wind, and the gusts where bad. 5 minutes into the flight, and it is two hundred yards downwind away from me, and I'm losing ground. A few lulls in the wind allowed me to get it within 100 yards. Now my 10 minute timer is going off on my TX, and I know I am about out of juice. Thankfully, another lull in the wind, and I was able to get it within 50 yards of myself. Landed, picked it up, and went home.
Too funny!
Last week it was blowing so hard I couldn't get my plane to turn around towards the pits and had to walk out to get it, even with the leash on it the plane didn't want to turn.
Idrove all the way to Oregon for an IMAA fly in and was grounded for several days, my plane didn't have the power to fly into that wind and wasn't fast enough to fly the down leg.
People tend to forget about the down leg, the plane has to be able to fly faster then the wind or it looses it's lift.