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@McG 6969 Joined, thank you. 👍

Sorry to see that Aidan, know the cause yet?

What's the league code?

Still available https://www.njrmodelling.co.uk/product/sas-apache/ 👍

All the bits ready now for assembling. I want a model that can be hand launched but I don’t know if an OS15 will be powerful enough as everything so far weighs approx 500 grams without covering or glue. The two heaviest items. If it’s not man enough I can reprint the mount for an OS25 I have.

I too have a copy, think it's a more recent version. Not only have I learnt a lot about different types of slopes and how the wind works, but the section by Chris Foss covering model design is very interesting.

This might be interesting https://youtu.be/ReWLJgvNJ1U?si=nky1HHIxLX1XAItS I too have one of these kits waiting for when my Boomerang is no longer fit to fly.

Does section 7.2 in the manual not help? Flysky FS-i6 Manual

Flew yesterday in the strongest winds I've encountered yet, at the edge of the slope it was difficult to stand upright against the wind. My second session with an elderly secondhand Wild Thing 60, first launch attempt saw the wind get under it and it blown at least 100 yards behind me. 😁 A bit of tape to secure the fin it was back in the air 10 minutes later then followed by more than a few dodgy landings due to getting pinned back and it still survived. Once I got a handle on it I had a great days flying, cannot recommend them enough too. So impressed with the Wild Wing I've ordered a new 46 kit.

That type of flying could get boring quite quickly and noting the unsettled UK weather that type of model would be grounded when a 40 sized trainer would be flying without issue.

An example where it isn’t always straightforward. Our best Southerly slope has an 80 degree face topped with a barbed wire fence. To avoid the rotor you need to launch from as close to the barbed wire fence as possible and landing is a long way back for which you need to walk up the slope while flying the model. No way would I know all of this without someone more experienced tutoring me. Me launching a Wild Thing 60 for its maiden with my tutor on the sticks at this slope last Sunday. ca0aadfe-1623-4ff0-be3b-176231188469.MP4

As someone who has only been flying flat field IC for under 2 years and has recently been slope soaring for a few months, I’ve found slope soaring more difficult than it looks despite having a tutor who is a very long standing slope soarer. I’m not the fastest learner which might have something to do with it however as Graham mentions you often have to fly in less than perfect conditions. I think if you relied on slope soaring to learn, your progress would be drawn out as perfect conditions are few and far between.

Can you not replace the plastic screw/captive nut with a magnet?

My local site has been waterlogged for a couple of months now making the strip unusable. 🥲 However slope soaring has been the answer to getting some airtime, Sunday another excellent day on the slopes and I got to fly a Wild Wing 60 picked up second hand which flew in the moderate to strong breeze very well and was a pleasure to fly.

@Saint 1 What a fantastic looking model, what adhesive are you using as I have struggled to get a good bond with my correx experiments?

A quick mock up of how the rear v-tail will be constructed using a lower frame and upper clamp to secure the foam flying surfaces at a 110 deg angle and true to the fuselage. Lower frame printed with a section of fuselage. Upper clamp with nylon M3 screws to hold everything together. Underneath view of upper clamp showing extruded sections to key in foam surfaces. Lower frame located in the B folded fuselage. On another Hobbycraft foamboard model I built I've had failures on anything glued to the paper surface hence trying to avoid that, this frame is glued directly to foam surfaces. Clamp on top holding the v-tail surfaces in place. The mock up showed I had some dimensions wrong and some flex which can be removed with a redesign of the upper clamp. Finding it a steep learning process with CAD but it's starting to click.

What are the benefits of doing it directly with the CAA?

Are they printed in LW-PLA? Do you print the sections in vase mode?

My Tx is configured to log telemetry once it gets an Rx signal, so yes my flights are logged but I've only looked at them in the event of a problem or a maiden.

You're crediting me with practical skills, tools and a work space............................................none of which I have. 🙂

I've got the 3D printer dialed in OK now but hit a couple of other snags. The first was the tiled prints of the 2D CAD files were not printing at 100% scale because the HP printer driver was putting a 2.5mm border on every page despite choosing borderless and because I had squeezed the drawing into an A1 foam sheet it was reducing the size of the pages which I only discovered after cutting all the parts out, duh. This was resolved via the multi page printing function in QCAD by tile printing on a larger number of pages which negated the effects of the border. My fuselage uses what's known as a B fold in the flite test world, involves a couple of scores then the removal of the material between the scores prior to folding. However I found I couldn't remove the material between the score lines on our Hobbycraft foamboard because of how strong the adhesive is with the paper skin. To resolve this I've printed a small tool which when pushed between the score lines removes the material more neatly. Hopefully I'll have a mockup of the model shortly if I don't hit anymore snags.

It’s possible the reason you can delete the unusable model is because it is the current selected model, you could try selecting another model then retry deleting the unusable model?

Do you not have as a minimum a PIN or better still some form of biometric authentication to access your phone? Fixed line? What's one of them?

Nail hit firmly on the head. 😂

You must have missed the multiple links on the right hand side to the "quick start guide" for those who do not wish to read all the detail?