GrumpyGnome

I agree. Sadly we live in times when personal privilege and freedom override common sense, and consideration for others.....

And not without pages of caveats and CYA sentences......

Good news toto...

Looks like a reasonably ok weather window opening. Fingers crossed....

I can't imagine any qualified lawyer will give advice on a public forum....

If you read totos other thread (First taste of the sky), you'll see he has received lots and lots of advice - often incorrect, misleading, or contradictory. None of it resulted in a satisfactory ic experience........... any advice or comment I give is based on his past experience, and trying to minimise the risk of further disappointment. I'll make no further comment on this topic.

If you are a BMFA affiliated club, ask them - get it from the horses mouth.

Someone who already had a house said ..... "come and see my current house, I've had loads; I'll help you upgrade your cave safely, and help you understand how a house works" Much better than the family in the next cave, who decided to have a go at building a house on their own. Because they had no experience, they didn't know what was required. It fell down in a storm and injured them. They decided houses are horrible, complicated things, so they still live In a cave.

Or just believe Jon..... he's seen more Lasers than all us forumites put together.....

Nooooooooo. Toto has already had bad experiences with ic - the last thing he needs us to bolt his unfamiliar engine to a bench, and 'see how he gets on'. He has no real experience of starting, running in, or adjusting such an engine. And, in fact, is a way off being able to fly the model in question. His highest chance of avoiding more disappointment (when toto can fly such a model safely) has to be to mount it into his model, take it to the flying field, get his petrol-experienced chum to check it out, then work together to start it, run it in, and make any adjustments. Hopefully, it's staying in its box for a while. Other opinions are, obviously, available.

That's a nice looking aeroplane. Hopefully someone will have a go, and post a build log.

@toto I'm sure you'll resist any temptation to fiddle, or adjust, those nice shiny new enginses. When the time comes, bolt an engine in a plane, and get your experienced clubmate to teach you how to set it up and use it... have fun!

At that price, I suspect AliExpress or Banggood.....

Charge them individually at 0.1C..... should all be ready for the next bit of decent weather 😞

I have a shoe box pretty much full of coffee stirrer sticks. Neither my wife nor I take sugar but replenish my stock each time we visit a coffee shop from one of the large chains...... They used to be used extensively to reinforce and repair foamies, now mainly as epoxy stirrers, so stock levels are high. Somehow, I've managed to accumulate quite a number of pieces of carbon in various sizes to use as reinforcement...... probably salvaged from dead models as I don't recall ever buying any.

Running pull-pull cord to a rudder would all negligible tail weight so is probably worth doing if you can. I'm ready to be shot down, but I think rudder/elevator is more common than rudder/ailerons on gliders....

I think totos shed is now better stocked than many shops....... 🙂

In my experience, setting up, running in, and using a petrol is no different to glow. If you have a glow engine tuned properly, and the tank is positioned correctly, you won't get deadsticks. My Double Trouble has an OS46 in it and has suffered one deadstick (my fault for running out of fuel) in over 250 flights.....

Dogs got me up at 5:30 - obviously they were woken by starvation (Labradors)! Calm, clear, warmish, forecast was for moderate breeze and cloud later. Whoohoo! Put a dozen LiPos on charge...... by 7:00 there was a stiff breeze and clouds..... grrr. Consoling myself with coffee and a Lemon Muffin looking over the Market square in Beverley.

Tuning a petrol involves the same two needles so it can't be that..... they can be less messy, are more tolerant of tank position and cheaper to run (and buy now)..... maybe one or more of those reason. And they are more fahionable it seems. On the downside, they need more onboard equipment, and of course CAN be noisy.

It's the one referred to in the OP leccy... belongs to payneib

Only a limited number.... SFHSS is supported.

Eek!

Not raining - yet. Not windy - yet. Took advantage and having some quiet fun. Just me, the tractors, sheep and birds. The Buzzards really couldn't care less about my pathetic attempts at flight... Not sure about everyone else, but although I really enjoy flying my Parkzone SE5, it always feels like the CofG, incidences and thrust line are fighting each other!

Nice job!