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Default RE: How Many Planes Do You Take To The Field?

Guys will look at the planes I get out of my car and set up and ask me how I got so many planes in there. I have an Impala LT and I pack three 40 size planes and one 60 size stick with a 91 OS and I could even get an electric in there if I tried hard enough. So I can take four to the field and when I plan to stay a long day I do take four. I think there is an art to packing planes in a car. It is almost like packing 27 people in a VW beetle

My normal haul is three and that works out real good. I take a fast sporty plane like the Revolver and a couple like the Pulse XT 40 which makes for a great day for me. One thing I can never figure out is why certain people will only take one plane then something happens that they cannot fix and they have to go home. I just don't understand that.

I have seen guys drive up in an SUV and pull out one small 40 size plane, a flight box and fuel and fly a while. Then something might fail and they are done for the day! I saw one guys fuel tank start leaking and another guys servo failed and could not be fixed. Each time with one plane that is it for the day. If they had just put one more plane in they could enjoy the flying hours left in the day and they could have flown instead of wasting time trying to fix the broken planes at the field.

That to me is just lacking good prepping for a days flying. It is one thing if you don't have any other planes, but when you do and don't bring them I simply do not understand that.