[NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up

Sun Nov 30 14:20:04 AKST 2008

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
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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

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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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