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Hey goirish,

I thought that snake was Baby Cobra, but I was told it was an adder as I described it to my sis in law, she said I'd have run him over, but I let him go. I guess that's the best pix I could get. Well, now I know that the new flying field I go is full of snakes as this flying field in Magnolia is under development.

I could not fly this Sunday[:o][:@] cos of wind gusts. This Sunday seems to be perfect:D

Happy flying ya'll

Mody

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I hate snakes[:@] Scares the living crap out of me.

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LOL,

If it was in my hands, I would have prolly caught him:D

Mody

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Thrill issues I tell you, thrill issues you have:D

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If it is any kind of a snake-I ain't interested. I don't know the harmless ones from the one's that are not. So I leave them all alone. I am just learning 3-D Only problem is I am so high that I can't see the stupid plane. 3 mistakes high, nah,,,,, maybe 10.

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A horror scenario: Picture yourself totally engrossed flying your RC plane, eyes glued to the plane up in the sky... suddenly a snake crawls up you legs!!! Yikes, I don't want to think about it!!

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Reminds me, Last year a guy and the field had a bee fly into his shirt! He's allergic to them, yep, plane crashed.

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If a snake crawled up my leg, all you would have to do is call the funeral home.

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Whatever ends up crawling up my legs, the plane is going to crash.

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All true! and if you have anymore ????? just ask me because I am farely new to this hobby!

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Another one is: I lot of people don't distinguish between fact and their own opinions.

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"Need" has been replaced with "want." Even here in the Beginner forum, people are constantly told to avoid engines like the OS LA and Thunder Tiger GP series and get a 46 to 55 ball bearing engine for their first 40 size trainer. "You can always throttle back" is the phrase used all the time.
I guess that's true but 60 size is my limit and my preference.
My brother and I use a 9C, but not for the extra channels. It has more model memory and the trainer system is customizable so it works better for us than connecting two 6-channel units.
My third plane was a kit built trainer. It took me almost a year to build it. If there were no ARF trainers I would not be in the hobby.
I know more than some, less than many, and still have a heck of a lot to learn.

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16MB of RAM is no longer enough.

A 486 is no longer a fast processor

Neither is a 20mb hard drive

Or their first PC

Mmm...indeed...much like the paper tigers in my world.

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Eh...it's progress. It happens.
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So far I am staying in the 40 size range, but for some reason, 2-stroke engines are not good enough anymore, I am getting 4-strokes now. Maybe I'm getting spoiled.

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He does have allot of good points, I was just kidding a little! All my 40 size do have a 45 or better but that is because I fly at 7000 ft and the extra power is needed! I even have a couple sixty's on some forty size. A sixty size plane is just about my limit because of the size of my shop and hauler. but even some of my sixty's have ninety's on them. I do love to build but do take the fast way out with an ARF. I tend to buy Arf's in the spring and summer and kits in the fall and winter! I am learning but need to learn allot more, and know I will be in this hobby as long as my health will let me! I love this hobby and know that I will someday when have more space will go a bit larger and all gas due to the price of glow fuel, but am loving they are building smaller gas engines for smaller planes!

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If anything crawls up on my leg, I'm gonna hand my Radio to the fellow flyer. I ain't gonna get anything get me. I'm gonna take some pictures of the under-development flying field in Magnolia and post it over here. I'm also moving to Magnolia end of June this year. So that's my field from now on. I don't know how many other animals I'm gonna come across:eek::D

Mody

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Just for the record, i used/owned/coded on/built every one of those things you mention. Like, i suspect, the OP, I wasn't listing the oldest things I'm familiar with ;)
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Ahhh for the good ole days :)

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I fly a 40 with an 82... no, actually... I hover with the 82, I use about 12 to fly.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ggXaFxo92w[/youtube]

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To build or buy? When you want to modify, sometimes building makes sense

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn4OivnLtBA[/youtube]

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I crashed my ARF and built a kit. I crashed my kit and fused it to my ARF.

Is the result am Arfkit or a Kitarf?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJqBTO5RrWA[/youtube]

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Bet you wish this was available as an ARF or a kit. Sorry, one of a kind scratch built...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vtTsEuWNMY[/youtube]

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...and yes, a 40 needs a 55, even if it's a trainer. Go OS!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VziKN12Gxw[/youtube]