John Robertson 3

"Irony"? Don't remember that one. Is it one of the heavy metals? "1 perch = 0.25 rood. Approximately. Apparently.​" Damned metric system - where did that missing zero go? I read "0.0250000001384" and rounded down. And failed miserably. Never happened in the Imperial System. School exercise book tables? I absolutely loved them. I, too, found them "exotic". Not only that, but I have some silver groats tucked away in my goodie box. And a couple of farthings. And half-crowns. And crowns. I think I'll go and have a wee gloat later. My daughter's partner is Swedish. He enjoys tormenting me - he takes every opportunity to talk about "decilitres", "hectares" and fuel consumption of "litres per 100km". What ARE these things? " D.D. : Yes, very nice, but how FAR do you have to fall out of your van in order to fly? Surely this is an important measurement given the topic?

Jeeze. Yer oan yer own, laddie. 1 perch = 0.25 rood. Approximately. Apparently. "Gordon Bennet".

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Nil. Naught. Zero. From the double - leaf French Door threshold of the conservatory, over the field opposite. Alternatively: - 1 metre (negative 1m) from inside the conservatory. But - ONLY with a 48 gram UMX Radian and ONLY when the wife's out and ONLY when a hand-catch feels likely!

I for one have. No problems noted. I simply made up correctly-gauged leads to the extra length required, soldered the appropriate connectors on them and made sure that they were safely shielded by heatshrink - you don't want any bare metal anywhere, or it will all end in smoke. Fair enough - extra wires and junctions could indeed lead to higher failure rates, but I doubt our planes are too critical in this respect. I wouldn't even consider trying to remove the short leads from the motor and, given that the 3 leads from the esc are carrying pulses, I would keep servo and Rx wires well clear.

Nice seagull, rite enuff! Nil desperandum (or something).

Nice Pod - shades of the old band-on Cox .049 units!

Nightflyer - "WOW the Felix is like twice the cost of the Lidl one." It may be so, but the Felix XL looks to be a rather different beast. As I could not locate the Lidl version here in Scotland I bought a couple of FMS Alpha chuckies. On learning of the Felix I did a bit of research, liked the look of it, liked the Flexipor Polyurethane material, then ordered one from RobotBirds (plus a few extra goodies Naughty, Naughty, Naughty). Maybe one day I'll actually get round to putting all this stuff together and actually FLYING one!

I have a recently-purchased DXe and it came with v1.3 software. On the website v1.6 (22 August 2016) was listed, but warned that it was NOT compatible with the PC Programmer at this time; the settings could only be configured with Android and IOS mobile applications . It also warned that "Note: DO NOT REVERT TO VERSION 1,3 AFTER THIS UPDATE TO 1.6". Aas I don't have a useable smartphone (old one, not enough memory, like myself) I left mine at v1.3. Have you set up the DXe with a PC or a smartphone? If a PC, could this mismatch of versions be the problem?

OOOh, Lovely - more Speedster Den video. Inspiring!

Sigh! So sad . . . Scotland seems to be losing out here. I keep an eye on Lidl/Aldi and hadn't noticed such an offering. I looked in our local store. No Joy. Pity. One good thing - a couple of the FMS Alpha gliders are "in the post" so that should keep me happy for a while.

My thanks too - I often struggle with IT stuff and appreciate not-so-subtle hints.

"... two 4 o' clocks in a single day, and I saw both of them....... " - Ah, yes. I remember that, but a year after retiring from permanent night shift I'm beginning to recover my equilibrium. Now if the wife would only release me from the constant household chores and garden labouring I could get in to my nice new "modelling only" shed. No windows, insulated, one key only (I claim), lockable from inside - I could get back to my trogdolite existence!

Good work, Trevor. I second that request for Former information. How do I send a PM to the editor regarding this?

I bought a nice foam one from Over lander. It suits me fine in the shed and is an interlocking fla-sheet design which dismantles in a trice. I found I could lock the models into place with foam slices when setting wing etc. incidences. More suited to electric craft rather than I.C. types, I would have thought.

Definitely electric - camper van + wife = NO NITRO. Period.

On receiving my May mag. I was delighted to see the 362 plan and article. I shot out to my modelling shed and looked out my old plans. Sure enough, there was a pristine copy of the bigger 363 version. Desired, but never built as job, house, children took over my life. As soon as I saw there was a set of laser-cut ribs on offer for the 362 there was no stopping me and I banged off an order immediately. Dangerous things, these smartphone! Grandchild No.2 is due in a week-and-day, so fingers crossed I can get building in this new century. Quite nice being a Grampa/Mur-far (Swedish, apparently, as I'm "Mother's father").

Ummmm . . . too rarified a mental level for me. I just enjoyed the story and laughed and laughed and laughed. Thanks, Cymaz.

Which others? Those who like or dislike? I'm guessing "dislike", but ye ken what is said about assumptions, ken?

Aye - ah ken thon ken fae the sooth, but it's nae the same ken as the ken fae Dundee, ken. Enuff - must awa' ben the hoose as there's a loon an' a quine fae futher north. Fit like? Edited By John Robertson 3 on 08/04/2017 01:21:41

Thanks, Mark. I'm a returnee after 30 years (house extensions, kids, universities etc) and am particularly interested in slope stuff. I have to confess that I haven't actually FLOWN yet, but am so confident that I'll stick at it that I have built myself a modelling shed first. I know from experience that I will get so carried away once I see something in the air again that I need to have repair facilities immediately on hand to minimise down time. I still have my old Fleet gear (FM, 35MHz) but won't risk using it just now (probably never) and have a 3 off 2.4GHz sets on standby. My first forays are likely to be with my Radian simply because it's sitting there ready-to-go, with a couple more trainer-types in the background (also ready-to-go). Electric suits me fine, as I was getting into it when the kids took over my life (they're all now growed up and about to make me a grandfather for the second time) - we have a motorhome and there's no way glow fuel would be allowed anywhere near it. My plan is to get my thumbs working again with the foamies, then get back to building off the plans like the old days. Even my balsa stock has survived the decades! All I have to do is pluck up the courage to get back in the air and get that first crash over with. As far as flying with other is concerned, there's virtually no chance. I know off no-one in this area who would be able to coach me so I'm quite happy to crack on myself (West coast, Scotland). We'll be down along the South Downs Way later in May, so I'll see if there are any soaring sites in the area which might coincide with our cycling tour where I could have a look-see at how it's done. Not getting very far with my LANC control search, but Sony have given me a reply-of-sorts and I'm following that lead. Who is "Ken?"? It's somebody that East-Coasters mention part way through and at the end of sentences. I suppose it's like the "y'know" and "like" verbal tics in Englandshire. Ken?

I have done a bit of work on the web searching for LANC and have had better luck than before. My "Google Fu" skills, as my son puts it, are poor, but I try. It looks like I need a Manfrotto adapter 522AV to link my tripod remote-control arm to an AV-R enabled camera, so it looks like I might be able to use the support system for video work. However, I haven't had any luck so far in tracing a camcorder with an AV-R socket. I hadn't realised that there is a "video" forum on this site, so I'll maybe have a look there to see if I can find an appropriate thread. I telt youse - "Old & Slow", that's me. Ken?

Mark Kettle . . . Mark Kettle . . . it just dawned on me that I'm a new subscriber on YouTube, having enjoyed the PSS videos etc. Old & Slow, that's me. A question for the "Dragon Cam" man - at some point in the future (Deo Volente) I should like to do a bit of filming of models in flight, but have no current camcorders as my 3 old MiniDV tape ones are worn out. I DO have a nice Manfrotto fluid-head tripod with a remote control arm which would be ideal for smooth-panning shots and zoom-control of an HD camcorder, but it would require a wired LANC socket on the camcorder. My initial and tentative research into current Sony camcorders suggests that this might be a problem. Have you any experience of the old LANC equipment or its modern counterpart to help me in my search? Thanks for any help forthcoming.

Even better second time round. Bearing in mind copyright, I may (ahem!) even download it for future enjoyment. And there's LOADS more on his YouTube channel. I can feel a "subscription" coming on . . .

My wife and I used to film and edit wedding videos. We were pretty good at it according to our customers. We did some superb audio/video segments as part of this - again, well praised. So I though this build video was EXCELLENT in both the video sequences and the associated music. There are a few cunning moves in there which the editor has spent some time on. I'm going back to run it again, with the sound turned up! Well done.