Grant Darnley

he's the same old crabbit bugger he's always been.  trying to educate him in video cameras now that he's getting the hang of stills.  How tricks yourself?

midges shouldn't be too bad, tis p-ing rain all this week, tends to keep em on the ground little blighters, might be worth taking a mossie net if you get a good day for sloping, remember going out on game shoots and damn spending that long on the moors unprotected again

hmm, time to experiment me thinks

I'll warn border control There's a club just outside aviemore but I've no idea how active it is any more, cairngorm mfc the ross-shire boys are good crack as well ross-shire mfc and if you're close to nairn(just outside inverness) me and the old man fly beside brackla distillery but thats flat as a pancake so no good for slopers but you're definitely in the right country for those, just find a hill(difficult task) and throw Nessie goes away on hols at the end of august and haggis hunting season doesn't start till 2nd week in september so you'll miss both of those, but the shooting season is in full swing so you can be a target drone if you like Jokes aside, feel free to come over to brackla if you find some time, its a nice big flat field and Cawdor Castle is only a mile away

neither did I till they offered it on the phone, still bought 2 extra receivers though

Inwoods, £50 Tx or £90 combo inc. ar6200.  Or wait and see if anything happens at the nats?

One thing, you will need to use the flap channel sub trim to set the neutral on the left ail as the ail channel will only operate its servo.  As frank says you can play with mixing later but I'd leave it disabled until the plane is well and truly tested, one less thing to go wrong

it's listed in the reverse menu as flap, just remembered when I looked at the manual

Is it a dx6 or dx6i you have?  The dx6i I use and it has reverse on aux channel, I've got 2 ail servos plugged into ail & aux, and had to reverse aux to get them working as ailerons. Just to make sure, the right ail should be plugged into the ail socket and the left in aux.  Downloading the manual just now, will write back when I remember how I did it

its a petrol eng. so its a servo rather than an esc

It sounds like a reception issue, when I range checked mine I get to about 30 paces then the ailerons lock hard over and the throttle goes full open.  Try re-orientating your rx aerials

Roy, send me a private message with your email addy and I'll send you a wee diagram to go with the post above.

16oz is a common tank on 50cc petrol, you'd probably get away with 12

Flying on Sunday from a disused WWII airbase(brackla) we had a Piper Tomahawk from the local flying school make a practise approach on our runway, I got a bit of fuzzy video of it as he came down to about 20ft before flying away.  The Strathspey site is horrendous for getting bounced by military on exercise through the valleys, lost count of the number of hercs, tornados and hawks that I've shared airspace with at next to no warning

Roy, IFO plans were the subject of much controversy a few years ago at the height of their popularity, a few of my buddies were threatened with legal action because they built multiple airframes off one plan.  That said, the UK distibutor has now folded so I'll have a dig around and see if I can find a set.  Do you want for the full size IFO or the Mini?  The full IFO had a wingspan of 33" and was about 24" long, so mark the middle of a 3mm carbon rod then measure out 24", bind and cyano two 3mm rods with an overlap of about 3" then bend round till touching the ends of the 33" rod with the middle at the 24" mark, bind and cyano both ends.  3" back from the front of the "bow" put another bit of 3mm rod parallel to the 33" rod(yep, bind and cyano at the ends) then join this rod and the 33" rod with another 3" rod running straight down the middle of the frame.  Hey presto, basic frame done, now all you gota do is add the tail surfaces out of 2mm rod, cover in lightweight plastic and add the gear.  Nice n quick

Jezza tried to tow it with a tractor a few seasons back as well.  It's become quite a habit of mine trying to spot random planes round the topgear track, the Seahawk pops up a few times

I'll make a wee tank to drive out the back

The 820 is better on 4s with a 12x6, if you want to stick with 3s I'd go for a 2818/900 with a 13x6.5, thats what I use in my Edge(a fraction lighter than your Kat) and it pulls it around fine.  EFs Yak which is closer to the size of the kat is often powered by the 820 & 4s combo and that has crazy power, but they do say a 14x7 can be used on 3s http://www.freestyle-rc.co.uk/_shop/store/Aircraft+accessories/Airboss+and+Torque/T28XX.aspx

http://www.modelflying.co.uk/gallery/image.asp?sp=&v=5&uabn=114&uin=899  Stef did tell me what he built this from a while ago but I forget now, I'm sure he'd answer an email if you want to ask him