Caution flying any RC Plane today due to solar flare starting 9:00 am today.

Even with Futaba?

Are you joking?

LOL
Looks like 2.4 Radios is going to be ok. Frequency mostly affected Freq Quote ,28Mhz, 144Mhz, 50Mhz, northern paths. Expect noise levels to be high too.

You realize you're going to have people running for thier tin foil hats.

The Earth gets hit by CME's all the time. I wish I was up north, the Aurora will be spectacular.

you funny dude

Solar flares....the FAA....aliens....we're doomed!

George

This is one of the effects here in the U.K.

<span id="synopsis">Gorgeous Northern Lights displays have been filling the skies over Scotland and parts of Northern England. We do not see this display very often this far south, not in England anyway.

Alistair.</span>

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Time to get out my Cast Iron underwear !!!!!!


Danno

Man I would love to witness that . If only Paul Bunyan would start fighting is blue OX again [&o]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbfSU...eature=related

They've been lively over the last couple of days! [8D]


[link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnarbg/6746445983/]_MG_9594[/link] by [link=http://www.flickr.com/people/arnarbg/]Arnar Bergur[/link]

Thats my one good memory from Kef, seeing the northern lights in person.

Guess we didn't meet then!

Sverrir,

That is one stunning picture, must book a trip with the wife to see these - just awesome!

marcs

All good-BUT-word and calculations/forcast are the solar flares will get worse as we get on into the summer month's. The ARRL which is us Hams (Amature Radio) Org. and advocate has predicted (unless it's changed lately), that the stormes can and will be the worst we have had in our lifetimes. The cycle is every ten years and we are approaching the top of this cycle. Sorry guys. didn't mean to go on, just a little info. With that, do be very careful when you are doing your range checks this year.

Flying my 2.4 E-flite Blade right now, so far, so good. I keep banging it around the walls, but I'm pretty sure that's just me.

marcs

Been there done that, 90miles inside the Artic circle, one of the most memerable trips/holidays I have ever had, the highlight for me was the Husky sledging, driving your own team across a frozen lake is really something, Oh yes and the Northern Lights were OK as well, we staid in a tin minning town that was just about to be moved as the seam was running under the town, I can just imagine the outrage in the UK if we wanted to move a town for industrial purposes. LOL

Mike

Some are powerful enough to melt power transformers but no...it won't affect out toy airplanes!!!

http://www.space.com/12584-worst-sol...s-history.html

LOL, I went flying today and didn't see/feel any solar effect. <div>I did  see an enormous amount of birds. I'll say 1000 of them. They were so many you couldn't fly because you would inevitably hit one.</div><div>They look like a dark movable cloud. I've being flying at this particular site for a couple of years and have never seeing this many.</div>

This time of year on the flats the Starlings and Lapwings have flocked and they generally number in their thousands, its a wonderful sight and worth stopping flying just to watch them ducking and diving over the estuary.

Mike

Dude that is an awsome photo, you should submit it somewere people pay big bux for stuff like that

I don't know if this is normal, only what I have seen, but my own effort took over three minutes to get a decent effect, I think most they are not in real time, so don't be dissapointed if you go there and don't see what is shown in the amazing published photo's, bit like looking at a Star Nebula they are black and white.

Mike

[link=http://www.facebook.com/TSOphotography]This guy[/link] takes some of the most spectacular timelapses, check out this one of the AB > http://vimeo.com/21294655

No doubt, keep me posted when you do!


It is, though I can't take credit, check the link below to the photographers flickr page.


They can be quite lively and bright when there have been large [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection]coronal mass ejections[/link] going on but sometimes they can be dim.
But you have no problem seeing them either way. Found a [link=http://sverrir.net/files/doc/auroraborealis_lowres.avi]low res. video[/link] I took back in 2006 for a mate and few pics that got 5 sec. exposure, sorry about the fuzziness no tripod used). Those pics are taken outside my mates house so you can imagine the effect outside of the city light pollution zone!

Nice photos! I would love to see the Northern Lights up close and in person.

BTW: 8 of us flew all day today with no probs..... must be that we all fly dsmx. Oh a couple electrics still had dsm2, my bad.


Cheers,
Steve

CME's affect all freqs. Don't count on your PCM/DSMX/Star Wars hi-tech to be immune. You just happen to be lucky at that moment.

Me, I fly at night. Use the earth as a shield. That, and my tinfoil hat makes me the MAN!