[NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up

Mon Dec 1 06:06:50 AKST 2008

Here's a different kind of wrap up for the 2008 season:

1.       Fire sold all 3W equipment at huge  loss to switch to DA after
many engine/service related lost rounds over two seasons.

2.       Sold off nearly all pattern equipment, then reinvested with
Osmose

3.       Crashed new 120 flight Osmose in Bogota (snap-stall on landing
at 8500' elevator, totally my fault)

4.       Crashed new 58 flight 42% Dalton ML 300 with DA 170 and twin
tuned pipes 4 weeks later- totally destroyed (not my fault)

5.       Built new PassPort - 20 flights - hoping for a long life out of
this one - best flying plane I ever flew.

6.       Flew 16 year old Aurora 3 times, starting to like it.

October was a bad month L .  But, looking forward to the Tangerine
contest

Thanks,

Jim

From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of krishlan
fitzsimmons
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:38 PM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up

For real Matt.. lol

I usually read a paper while flying a BM.. LOL  

Chris 

--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Matthew Frederick <mjfrederick at cox.net> wrote:

From: Matthew Frederick <mjfrederick at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up
To: homeremodeling2003 at yahoo.com, "General pattern discussion"
<nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 7:24 PM

You just gotta make sure that it doesn't hit the fan!

	----- Original Message ----- 

	From: krishlan fitzsimmons <mailto:homeremodeling2003 at yahoo.com>

	To: General pattern discussion
<mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>  

	Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 6:05 PM

	Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up

Flying the BM huh Robert??? lol 
That sounds funny.. 

Chris 

--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Robert L. Beaubien <rob at koolsoft.com> wrote:

From: Robert L. Beaubien <rob at koolsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up
To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 3:20 PM

It's been my first full year flying pattern.  2 planes, 7 contests, 150+
flights, and 2nd place in district championship points.  All in all, not
a bad start.  I've learned a lot, had some fun, and met a lot of neat
people.  My flying has improved drastically, thanx to practice and a LOT
of help from Troy.  Moving up to Intermediate in the last contest was a
lot of fun and it should be challenging next year.  

I'm down right now to send in my 12z for its 2 year service and work on
my new Black Mamba. My goal is to start flying the BM starting at the
February Phoenix contest (assuming I get it finished).  I also hope to
attend NATS for the first time.

It's been a good year.

- Robert Beaubien

- NSRCA, District 7 Webmaster

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From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of
rcmaster199 at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:59 PM
To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up

That's several folks I have heard who changed wheels after a couple
hundred flights. Suggestion for youse..... If you lined the foam
initially with a thin layer of bicycle inner tube (ca'd on), your wheels
(the foam) will last much longer. Maybe 5 or 6X if you fly off pavement.
This tid bit ought to make Van Putte smile

On flying, I count flights too as Scott is. My Temptress saw about 39
flights this year (3 gallons +). And we did fly in one whole pattern
contest...woweee!!! Seven flights there alone. Temptress has just
completed her 6th season, some 1500 flights in that span, 75% of which
came in her first 3 seasons in Fla. Been in NJ for 3 seasons with a
grand total of about 350 flights. Oh well. I've met some great folks
though....

I also got to fly grandson Cason's Vapor about 40X and his foam glider
(EZ Star?) about 15X. And his CX2 about 3 dozen times before breaking
the rotor blades. Cason is 4 and loves flying as long as Pappou (that's
me) does the flying. But hey, he drives his little RC cars and trucks so
it's a matter of time before he competes for stick time

On the Vapor, this has to be the easiest to fly trainer ever made. My
son Isaac actually loves to fly it. I've been trying to get the boy to
fly with me for 15 years with no practi cal success and along comes the
Vapor and makes it so easy. I am pleased!!

MattK

-----Original Message-----
From: James Oddino <joddino at socal.rr.com>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:51 am
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up

I'm not finished yet but I'm only at 259 flights this year.  Twenty
flights were testing my new 14MZ and 2.4GHz modules in January, and the
rest were with my Abbra.  All electric powered.  I did change the motor,
a DualSky 6360, at flight 422 on the Abbra, thinking the bearings were
getting noisey but they really didn't need to be changed.  I'm now at
493 flights and I think I'm on my fourth set of wheels.  I also
tightened the rudder cables once.  I'm constantly tweaking the
transmitter as there isn't much to do on the plane.    

I only got to three contests all late in the year, but I did see
improvement in my flying after watching and listening.  Practicing alone
will not get it done.

Jim O

On Nov 29, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Scott Smith wrote:

Since the list is slow...

I'm guessing I flew my last flight for 2008 today; it's just getting too
cold here in New England!  So barring a warm spell, I ended with 404
flights since April 17th.  Contests were a little light with three
district meets and the Nat's.  Electrics worked very well for me with
battery cost currently at $2.91 per flight.

(I know, I know...it's sick I count flights.  But that's my aviation
upbringing and computer nerd side!)

How many flights/contests did you do this year?

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