Chris Bott - Moderator

Here he is in 1/8 size with the bottom half removed. This is as printed with no tidying up afterwards. 2 arms and his head are only held on here with Blu-tack, hence the gaps.

Thanks for the prompt Bruce. Gent's this is beginning to stray over the mark. Can we all steer back towards the topic please before we decide to delete every post that isn't about model aircraft kits.

Bump, so more folk see this one.

Ken, if you look at the list of members on line at any time (via "browse") there's always a very healthy number of folk looking in. A good number of those are shown as "guests". i.e. they are not logged in. It could well be that some or even most of those are previous members just browsing. If/when they have something to contribute, I'm sure they will log in. If they're having trouble doing that, they only have to use "contact us" below. Is there anyone in particular that you have a concern about?

All should now be fixed Ken. It may be worth checking your notification settings again though. Click the bell and then Notification settings. Then go through them methodically choosing what you wish.

Another vote for the ender3 pro here. If I was buying now it would be the V2 with its extra features.

I'll take 10m then please ?

I'd like to try some Ron. Happy to buy 10m if that's the sort of length that makes it worth posting.

If you click the bell and then notification settings, you can then open up the "Followed Content" section and make all these choices:- The top checkbox gives you notifications for threads you started. The next one for threads you've contributed to. Then you can choose how often and how soon to get the notifications and finally whether they are just on site ones (the bell) or emails or both.

Ever since moving to Horus with the nice big colour screen I've done virtually all my programming on the Tx. So using Ethos, which from what I've seen is not dissimilar to OpenTx but has a much more up to date and smartphone like feel, doesn't worry me at all. Are there any signs of being able to take model backups and being able to move them between transmitters? (Not least to have a backup Tx and to use that feature of ACCESS). A conversion between OpenTx and Ethos files sounds impossible, but that would be a killer app if it could ever be done.

Looks great and early reports of ergonomics are very good too. But like you, I'll not be an early adopter. Let others iron out the wrinkles and if Ethos eventually gets glowing reports then maybe, I'll have a look.

Welcome to the forum Stretch

OK yep I see that. So what is SAFE doing in intermediate mode? It is still maintaining straight and level below 50ft? If so then the only way to reduce height is by reducing throttle? Isn't it?

I don't know the model but that sounds a good description of one of the first things an instructor would teach a pupil. That contrary to what you'd think, elevator controls aircraft speed and throttle controls height. OK that's very simplified, but to explain, think of it like riding a bike. Pulling up elevator is like going up a hill, you'll slow down. As lift is related to speed, you'll not only slow down but you'll get less lift so won't climb as much as you'd think, maybe not at all. Putting in down elevator increases your speed and lift. The faster you go, the less likely you are to dive. Using throttle though, cut that and any slowing down will reduce lift and you'll start losing altitude. It's a control interaction that you'll need to get used to.

Thanks Glenn that's interesting. I do have concerns about having the hardware stolen or vandalised, but it's worth a good looing at.

It looks like I should think to search the forum more often. Here's a suggestion that I made back in 2018 that might fit the bill. Rather than a weather station, to decide whether the weather is up to flying, would we want to know any more than we could glean from a webcam shot that includes a windsock or flag? It's worth a look, if I can use an old phone and just pay a small fee to camsecure and a fee for a SIM card, then that may be all we need? A free app that would send photos back to our website would be better. Any ideas?

Thanks Dad_flyer. I had that consideration at the back of my mind but your numbers really show how important it is to keep an eye on. Sounds like regular still pics are the way to go and to shutdown out of hours too.

If a club required a solar powered weather station and a couple of cameras - as an add on to an existing website. Where would you start? I'm thinking maybe a 4G router, possibly wired rather than WiFi, a couple of IP cameras and some sort of off the shelf weather station that regularly sends data back to a weather service. Can all this be done from 12V using a solar panel and battery?. If so, at what sort of power consumption? Does your club have anything?

Oh that's good news, thanks for letting us know.

OK yes I think I just worked that out, so thanks for confirming. I'm afraid us mods can only deal with the forum side so I'll pass this up the chain of command. Sorry to ask, have you tried logging in to the magazine side trying both possible usernames? i.e. either Jonathan W or your email address? Meanwhile I'll try to get someone to look at it on the mag side.

I'll have a look at your account Jonathan. Which login are you having trouble with? The one for the forum or the one for the magazine site?

Or, go to forum home page and look through Forum User Guides.

That sounds like the best advice so far. To add a BT Sport app to a device you already have. If you're already using a firestick successfully, that suggests that WiFi signal strength is fine at this location.

For anyone doing build blogs with a series of photos, we've found an option which allows resizing, should you wish. After you've hit the + button as above, and added your photo where you want it, double click it to see more options. Here, I've selected 500 as the display width. The full size pic is available to blog readers too.

I have a BT TV recorder box in my hall cupboard. From there HDMI is split using an HDMI splitter box, to 3 rooms. But this requires long HDMI cables. Infra red remote is relayed back to the BT box via the HDMI cables using little add in boxes at each end. Complicated, it works, but only one channel can be watched in all 3 rooms at one time. So, to watch BT sport in another room while the BT box is tuned to a different channel. I use a £30 Chromecast plugged into a another HDMI on the TV. On my Android phone I have the BT Sport App. This, along with many other phone apps like iPlayer, Netflix, YouTube etc, will "cast' to the Chromecast. i.e. they will direct the Chromecast unit to connect to the web and stream the BT channel direct to the TV. This works really well. (As previously stated it does require a decent WiFi signal where the Chromecast is situated)