Chris Salomon

Btw, if anyone thinks, from my last post and others I've made previously, that I'm biased towards BRC and against Robotbirds then, yes, I am, but I'm not paid to say it, it is based on personal experience!

What about one of these? Looks fun and BRC do a great motor/esc combo as inexpensive as french fries!

Yes, I reckon,  http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IMAX-B6-6-cell-LiPo-Charger-free-probe_W0QQitemZ130196249696QQihZ003QQcategoryZ34056QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Took mine for a flight at the weekend and, on launching, due to a totally unavoidable equipment failure (the tranny slipped out of my gloved hands!) I hit the ground, wiping out my new mount.  Decided now to not bother with the mount and just stick with the velcro direct on the camera.  Keeps it more out of the way than when on the mount, only prob is I can't use an interface now.  Maybe Acme will come up with a better mount?

Yeah, I'm of the same opinion, I think people like to rant and rave demanding greater accuracy just to try and look as if they are somehow better the rest of us! Looking on Ebay these are going for £30 + £18 p&p from HK, looks like a good buy to me (unless anyone can do better?!!)

Timbo,  I noticed in another review http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=746574 (sorry for the link to another forum!) that the manufacturer was looking at the problems of 1% resistors with a possible future change.  Do you know if anything came of this? Great review btw.

A Lo-Boy that is, not a Prophet of Doom!

Just reviving this thread.  I have a Lo-Boy gathering dust under my desk at work (a colleague gave it to me), I haven't done anything with it as I fly electric and it is a heavy beast.  However, recently I've been giving some thought to getting it sorted with a large brushless and a nice big Li-po to use on the windier days (which, if you believe the Prophets of Doom, will be increasingly frequent in the future!).  Anybody any experience of converting one?

Never mind the Tucano, what a glorious flying field!

(Enter suitable sycophantic comments here) Does grovelling improve my odds David? BTW, my Dad used to fly in Tiger Moths in the war, mostly towing targets for artillery practice, many tales he told, such as the pilot falling asleep and my Dad had to climb over to the other cockpit to wake him up!  Or the hothead pilot that did a low pass to scare the ground crew and took out the bottom skin of the Tigger on a telegraph pole.  Luckily my Dad had the habit of putting his feet on the longerons rather than the floor!

In fact, forget the link, it's dead!  Try http://www.allerc.com/emeter.htm

See this http://media.hyperion.hk/vid/emeter/hp-em-320strm.wmv for the full story (it's a temperamental link!) I'd have one if I could get a new one.

It's a tacho as well Tim.  As for Robotbirds, just don't!

If the wind dies down enough on saturday I'm hoping to get up to Talacre beach (N.E. Wales) to get some aerial footage from my Flycamone.  My usual field is rather featureless from the air so I thought the lighthouse might look better. So chuck that into the equation, as well as sand in your motors/bearings/sticky buns you can add the camera!

I'm with Jetsome on this, the Orme is a frightening concept when you first see it!  Maybe it is just that you grew up with it Timbo?!

Memories of summer 2006, flying on Black Rock Sands, in the early (ish) morning, bare feet, surf shorts and sunnies, you can't beat it! And how about slope soaring off the sand dunes?  That can be great fun. Also, I'm a surfer so when the Li-po's need charging I head off into the briny to satisfy my other passion!

A bit of a survey here. I have belonged to clubs in the past but my flying tends to be a snatched hour here and there so I tend to fly on a local sports field, when it isn't being used.  I hasten to add I only fly electric although there are one or two others that fly I.C. here.  It always concerns me that insurance would not be valid though, I suppose 'Park-fly',  by definition, would be ok as long as common sense was applied. What I'd like to do is to set up a more formal arrangement with maybe a local landowner for the use of a flying site.  What I'd like to know from others is what kind of arrangement do they have with landowners to have the use of a field?  I had heard that if any payment is made then the field becomes the subject of a Planning Application, one local club gives the farmer a hamper at Christmas which neatly side-steps that requirement. Also, how do farmers view having a mown strip, what sort of compensation do they require for the loss of its use etc. etc.

A DC clampmeter is an alternative, that's what I use.

Daft question Tim!

I had a couple of Li-po's that had received a fair deal of use and they would not balance on the charger so I took them apart (carefully!) and, although one was beyond repair, the other one had just puffed one of the three cells.  I cut out the offending cell and, voila, one 7.4v Li-po lives on!  The one interesting bit was cutting down the pcb on the end of the pack without shorting out the cell, I decided to use a cut-off wheel on the Dremel rather than a metal saw!

I notice there is a comment on the Acme website that there is a forthcoming software update that will allow the recording to be turned 180 degrees. Also an interesting comment about version A and B, how to tell which you have got and which version of the firmware to download.  Now they tell us!

I remember, many years ago, my dad had a collection of 'Practical Mechanics' magazine from the 30's right up to the 60's and there was a serialised construction feature on the full size Luton Minor.  It always fascinated me that it was possible to build a plane at home with no more than ordinary woodworking tools. Oh, and we threw my dad's old Practical Mechanics away some years ago sadly!

I am building the electric version of Tony's scaled-up Mossy from the free plan in RCM&E June 2005 and am thinking of fitting retracts.  Anybody done this? I'm fitting a couple of brushless motors, possibly these http://www.brchobbies.co.uk/?page=shop&action=additem&item=233 with a little alteration.  At the price of that deal it would be a crime not to!

Anyone had the lugs break off the mount at all? It isn't the sturdiest bit of kit and doesn't give a positive 'click' when in place but when I fitted mine yesterday the lugs broke off with no excessive input from me!

Don't listen to them Lee, I'm full of admiration, I just wish I could do a low pass like the one you are pulling in the pic!