Tim4

Nigel H sums it up perfectly in an earlier posting: Having to register and pay doesn’t bother me so much, it is that it seems so pointless. +1

Does ADS-B *need* to be transmitted from a model flying site location, or could it be broadcast from a few miles away, perhaps from a local airport? The signal goes quite a long way and contains the GPS co-ordinates. If a local airport could transmit ADS-B on behalf of model aircraft then perhaps us aeromodellers could simply log on to a website and state that we will be flying at location X for the next hour or two and then the airport ADS-B transmitter could broadcast that for us.

Here are a couple of photos of my conversion. I've flown it a couple of times in winds varying from approximately 7-13 mph. I'm pleased with the way it flies. It has carbon fibre strips along fuselage and across wings. Elevator is excellent and it loops ok. However, it takes about two seconds or so to perform a roll which is far too slow and makes switching in/out of inverted flying more difficult. I should have made the ailerons bigger. Pictures shows full deflection. TX is on 150% and push rods are against the wing. Anyone got any ideas for increasing aileron effectiveness? I'm considering gluing a couple of one inch x 8mm tapered balsa strips along the trailing edge to increase their area, or possibly cut out more from the wing but that would mean completely replacing the ailerons with balsa.