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Stuart Warne has recently returned to HK. I think he was a huge driving force behind customer service certainly with the durafly brand. Hopefully this won’t be the last of these sort of praise we see for HobbyKing

Thanks Danny, I’ve had a look through them, was a great help. How do people decide on what the model should look like in the Air when performing the moves? YouTube, Airshows? Is there, for example, leeway on when to drop undercarriage etc? For example a 747 would have a long straight in approach with the gear down from a long way out where as a Spitfire would have a curving approach with the gear dropped comparatively close in.

if you go over to the F3 area there’re are lots of helpful pages for flying manoeuvres, trimming and setting up models perfectly, even first competition helpful hints not to mention the introduction to aerobatics days held at Buckminster. what doesn’t seem so obvious are such things for scale flying, please note I’m not talking about the building aspect but purely the flying. I’ve kinda got a hankering to enter a scale flying only competition but I’m the kinda person who reads as much as they can to prepare first and I’m not finding much at all. does anyone have any links to stuff that may be of interest?

Interesting discussion, out of interest does anyone know if allowances are made for German teams entering scale competitions outside of Germany with a model that should include the Swastika as part of its scheme? Is the fact it’s missing ignored? Do they display it only in the country of the competition for the duration or do the very sensible Germans just tend to not model these aircraft/ schemes? Would seem a shame not to be able to celebrate the designs of possibly some of the most advanced and iconic aircraft of the era.

The only mass build I’ve done was the Atom. The reason for this was it was a different challenge flying wise and still taught me a bit about building in balsa. I can get, a trainer, a spitfire etc etc ARTF. If the objective of the mass build is to encourage me to build then offer something that I can’t get elsewhere. For example, this year I’ve had a hankering for a free flight model. Plenty out there you say? That’s true but the security blanket of having others to build alongside would encourage me to have another go at the MB. Unfortunately if it’s another sports model/ trainer or somesuch then I know whatever I can buy will be better built than what I can build.

(en Posted by Denis Watkins on 17/09/2018 20:34:01: LOL Partly because, with a Quad, you can lay the transmitter down and have a cup of tea in the hover But a fixed wing requires attention the whole flight, as the model can slow down and go off course due to wind and weather, and stall due to attitude and low speed (End quote) I fly both quadcopter and fixed wing both los and FPV and I can assure you I’d be much happier with a cuppa while flying fixed wing. I think you are confusing camera drones with the kind of fpv racer that most people fly FPV with. Trust me, there is no time to take your thumbs of the sticks and most are not GPS carrying so will not stay in the hover at all.   Edited By Chris Jones 7 on 17/09/2018 22:46:53

Love my electric Wot4 XL. Certainly not under powered on 8s with a nice eight minute duration. Enough power to drag up a decent sized glider but still slows to a brisk walk for landing.

Haha! So still nothing’s clear other than an aeroplane looks bloody silly coming in to land without its prop spinning! I also figure that on an ic model if the props not spinning it’s clear there’s a problem and people may allow more airspace for you (yes I know deadstick should be called). Keeping the prop spinning makes it clear the engine/ motor is running and all is, relatively, well. Beingbas most people at my club fly ic I figure I’ll make my electric models look as much like expected as possible. But This is a bit off the original topic.

Posted by Martin Harris on 10/08/2018 00:20:08: More than no reason why you shouldn't leave the throttle open a touch - more a case of why don't we set a "flight idle" on our electric models? I hate to see electric models (especially scale ones) taxi out, stop their props while completing the turn into wind and restart after a second or two for the take off run. Maybe a bit "anal" but I always make the effort to keep the prop turning and some of the comments in this thread are prompting me to doing a little programming along these lines (although in general, my scalish models tend to be IC powered). It will be interesting to see if there is a noticeable difference in fine control of the flare... Interesting - I’ve always set up my electric models so the prop is always spinning at zero throttle and requires the arming switch to be flicked to stop it. I do this even on belly landers simply flicking the switch at 1ft above landing. I seem to remember reading somewhere that a spinning propexhibits a greater braking effect that a stopped prop? Which may be why I fly with power on when landing on most models?

Wrong polarity on the wires.

At an indoor meet last Sunday a relatively new flyer had bought a new nutball for me to set up which I did and test flew with no problem. All that was left was to set the failsafe prior to the next flight and we were all good, (I’ll admit - I forgot). Just as I was tinkering with my model for a flight I heard the Nutball power up and take off to gasps and exclamations. I looked up and saw the nutball floating round in a beautiful circle straight for my head! Cool as a cucumber I reached up,caught it by the wing and disconnected the battery! Silly bugger hadn’t turned on his transmitter! Lesson learned that this particular gentleman perhaps hadn’t quite fully learned previous lessons and that in future I’ll fully setup his models before leaving him with them unsupervised!

Speedster that is genius! Thanks mate, I have everything I need to get on with mine now.

That all makes sense but what stops the wings from sliding off the spar in flight? Have you run a band through the tube or something? This is my main problem at the minute.

Speedster, I want to do mine with Wingerons but am still contemplating how to do it as I've never even seen a Wingeron model let alone built one. Do you have any photos of your setup I can shamelessly copy?

I'll be there. I have a 1/3 scale Cri-Cri, a battered Blaster DLG, a couple of Multirotors and a few other bits and bobs I was to clear out of the hangar. Doubt I'll fly but it'll be a good chance to look round seeing as though I'm pretty local.