Geoff Daunt

The best advice is not to get into cloud in the first place.!!!!! Recently l got into a very strong thermal and was having difficulty flying out.l was in danger of losing sight of the model. I tried down elevator to fly out but it was still going up. I eventually did a series of loops... 15 or so and managed to loose the height and come out ot the bottom of the thermal.

The multiplex easy glider is a v.good intro to electic gliding and cheap too for starters. I also have the Multiplex Alpha 27 which is a superb model but more complicated and more expensive. The easy glider is great for throwing in the back of the car and a quick glider fix, but if you really want to explor the thermals go for the Alpha 27.

Interesting to see the comment about blanking out the signal. I was discusssing this new system at our club in Spain with some of the guys and one of our members is an electronic engineer. He was not familiar with the product but did say that the operating wave length was very short and he would be concerned about a "shadowing effect" He did mention that there was a possibility of losing the signal if eg. you flew around the back of a tree on a low approach. We have a few of those around our site. !!! So that does ty in with the comment of a blanking effect if you flew behind another model. Anyway all should come clear when we get the Tech. report in next months RCME

Hope someone can give me some advice. I have bought the CAP plan and pack for this model.Has anyone built it.!!! No instructions and probably a bit too difficult for me but l carry on bashing the balsa. Fuselage fin and tailplane built but l am struggling to work out how to build the wing. The centre section is ok and built but the two end panels have a dihedral of 6" at each tip. The root ribs are about2" in height and the end rib about 1/2". The ribs are about symetrical. Clearly l cannot build flat on the board, given the wing taper. I can only think l will need to construct some sort of jig upon which to build the wing at an angle for a 6" dihedral. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated

just to let everyone know it had its maiden flight yesterday. I got someone else to launch so l could keep my hands on the TX. It flew straight and steady and l had nothing to trim. An excellent flight with no problems. Well done Multiplex.

I have just finished building and found it all went together very well. I was a bit apprehensive using kicker and cyano since it goes off almost instantly and l did not want a banana or misaligned fuselage.A good tip is to offer up the sides on your work bench to about 5 mm apart and then place vertically some scrap 1/8 square strip about 6 inches apart all down the lenght of the fuselage. With kicker on one side and cyano on the other offer and press together the nose. You can then work down the length of the fuselage press the sides together and removing the strips of balsa as you go. If you use the slow cyano it will not stick to the balsa and can easily be removed providing you do the job say within a minute or 2. The result is a perfectly joined fuselage. I also found l needed to put the aileron connectors on the third holein from the end (not the outermost one as per instructions) to get the correct aileron throw of 20mm up. As to battery l had a spare 7 cell NiMH 3500. It was too big to fit initially but with use of balsa knife and dremmell l enlarged the battery box a few mm all around and made a nice fit. I also did a dry fit with everything in place before joining the fuselage halves. I simply used masking tape around the fuselage to hold it together and with the Ball bearing in place at the rear of the fuselage secured with some blue tack. I used my multiplex balencer ( fantastic--everyone should have one ) and found it was tail heavy so l ditched the ball bearing. With my larger battery the cg was pulled back a bit so it was not needed. I have now rebalenced at 700 mm as per the instructions on the completed model and found l only needed 10g to balence so all in all just about spot on. I also used the supplied decals as per the illustrations on the box. They need some care cutting out but go on really well and it really looks a very pretty model. Well the weather looks good today so l am off to the field to have it's maiden flight, fingers and toes crossed.!!!