Hi 'Burger Thing',
Good on ya, you will have lots of fun flying and fixing it, I'm sure.

You can always tell a novice heli 'pilot', he will be hovering (probably a bit unsteadily!), with the nose of the aircraft always facing AWAY from himself.
It's much easier to keep the 'left & right' on the correct sides, that way - that's with both rudder (very important) and aileron (also very important).
I'll be dusting off my 63' Cap231 tomorrow morning, Sat, and see if I can still control the thing, always a handful!!
Cheers

Hey 'Flight Detent',

thanx for the tips. I am really a bit excited about my first flight. I will keep you informed on this forum how it went. Unfortunately I have to fly on the weekend but next weekend I am off so I will give it a try. Good luck with your Cap, but for sure it will be ok. A couple of weeks I flew after an almost 4 years break an electrified 3.2 m Swift S1 (aerobatic glider, goes fast... really fast!). My knees were shaking like on my first date. :o But fortunately I was lucky enough to bring it up and down in one piece. It was great fun!!! Good luck to you, mate!

Hi Burger Thing,
Well, how did it go last weekend?
I got the Cap going OK, I think the 'donkey dick' in the fuel tank has hung-up, the engine splutters each and every time I go through inverted, luckely it comes back as I recover attitude.

Didn't stop me from doing all I could to get it to cutout!
I'll be taking the tank out this week, and replacing the offending item, should be even better next week.

We are having a club 'fly - in' this Saturday, should be great fun, we usually get around 50 aircraft of all types at these events.

Even one guy, with a scale model of a B747, with the shuttle mounted aboard, the model '74 is about 80' wing span, great to watch, especially during the t/o and landing, flaps and all!
Email me if you would like.
Cheers

Hi Flight Detent Where will this fly in be and where are you based.?

Hi Big Red,
Thanks for your question,
Unfortunately for you guys in the UK, this weekend's fly-in is at my hometown of Brisbane, in an area just north, the club's name is 'PRAMS' (Pine Rivers Aeronautical Model Society).
There are about 140 members at this time.
Great location, near the Pacific coast, surrounded only by gum trees and mangroves, no noise restrictions at all, anytime.
Three intersecting grass runways, with a large clubhouse shed overlooking all.
For me, it's about 15 minutes south on the Bruce highway (read freeway), and, this time of the year, ie. April to July, it will be 27degC each day, and about 16degC each evening, with very little wind, for the guys that are camping out for this and other events.
Cheers

Hey Flight Detent,

good to hear that you enjoyed your flights last weekend with your Cap. I still haven't quite finished my helicopter. Actually I am painting it right now and that takes me longer than I thought. But I plan to fly it on the weekend, maybe on sunday afternoon. Here in Kuala Lumpur the weather is always very hot and humid and the only possible time to go for RC-flying is early morning and late afternoon.

I was curious about your cap and I tried it on a RC-Simulator (Real-Flight 2). It flies really nice, very neutral, great for aerobatics. I used to fly back in Germany RC-Gliders (all electrified). My favourite was an 4.5 metres Ventus 2 C. I flew it with 18 battery cells and a Plettenberg E-Motor, which allowed me to climb 3-4 times to 150 where I could try to find some thermals. You should have seen the geometry of the wings. Just amazingly beautiful. My other faourite was a 3.2 m Swift S1 (16 battery cells). Great for aerobatics. I built in in colours of the national flag of Chile...really proud of this one! :)

When I finish my heli, I will send you a picture BEFORE and AFTER the first flight ;) :D

Hi again Burger Thing,
I was in KL last month for a couple of weeks, stayed at the Pan Pacific Hotel out near Subang, tried to find out where the local flying sites were, but, as is mostly normal, I needed both local knowledge to find them, and my own transport, I had neither!
I did go into the KLCC to try and find a hobby shop, but no luck there, so I didn't get to meet any local flyboys!
I'm having a little trouble with the fuel tank feed line in the Cap, will be fixing it this week.
Cheers

Let me know about your heli flight(s)

G'day Flight Detent,

sorry mate, for not writing sooner, but I couldn't. I changed the apartment and it took a while until I had the phone line back.

I still owe you a picture of my Raptor Heli. I did a couple of flights already. This afternoon I did 4 or 5 and I was quite happy. Initially I crawled in the dust forward and backward and a bit to the left, then to the right, but I never flew higher than 10 cm. Later this afternoon I managed to hover at around 2 feet. It was ok, the wind was not blowing so strong and I was able to hover while keeping the position fixed. I really felt great agter the flight.

I have installed an ugly Hulla-Hoop-Ring to my Landing Gear. ;) so that my heli won't flip over so easily because of my jerky control inputs. But I tell you, even to start the engine the first time was a great experience, because so far I only flew electric.

Ok, I will try to make some pictures tomorrow. I have to hit the sack now, have an early morning flight. 3 am, :( :eek:

All the best

Radio controlled model aircraft.
 

Is anybody interested in this hobby?

If so, we can start a topic right here!

It's a great hobby, building and flying, been at it for many years, but sadly, don't get as much time at home that I can use to go flying, as I would like!

In my experience, it's much harder to teach other pilots to fly radio controlled aircraft than it is to teach total novices!

I fly three aircraft, all two-stroke powered -
1/ 63" span Cherokee 6, with an OS pumped .46SF with tuned muffler,

2/ 62" span Extra 300S, powered with an OS .61SF, with an in-cowl muffler,

3/ 54" Christian Eagle, powered by an ASP 1.08, with an in-cowl muffler.

I have great fun with them all, except that the Eagle is a bit of a hand-full, if the speed gets a bit low!

I run an all JR radio setup in all three aircraft, and use a JR 3810 for control!

I fly at my club in Brisbane, near the coast, on the north side of town, in Pine Rivers.

Are there any other RC flyers about that would like to let us know what, when and where they fly?

:rolleyes:

I am really happy to see that this topic is active again. I have been flying RC models for about 10 years now. I have just started to practise the F3A aerobatic program and maybe I will try to participate in a competition next summer.

It has been stated earlier in this topic that some of you professional pilots also do RC model flying. I would like to get a feeling for how many of you that are doing this. Please guys make some posts.

I still have mine here at home and it still hasn't got off the ground. I bought mine a few months ago and took it home and built it. I havn't even started the engine either. I tried in the garden but it just wouldn't fire. I found out later that you had to join a club to be able to fly after passing tests. The nearest one to me costs about £150 to start off with them then something like £60 a year afterwards.

The man in the shop told me none of this and if he would have i would have waited until i was in a better position to both buy the gear(£300+) and join the club. A bit too much for me all in one go. Maybe in the new year i will get the form sent off and see what happens then. Until then, all i can do is look at it sitting here nearby and wonder if it will ever take to the skys. :(

Hi Big Red,
Pity I didn't know you were having problems with your RC equipment.
I was over in Gatwick about a week ago, for around a week, just catching up on Sim refreshers, etc.
I could have contacted you and we could have talked, and maybe I could have shown you some tips about operating your RC stuff.

Pity that,
maybe next time,
Cheers

Amazing thread revival time..!!
 

Still not got it up yet..!!!!!! There is light at the end of the tunnel though, just got in touch with somone who may just be able to help me through this. Its pretty exciting now, the poor old plane will have to be dusted down and I might be close to seeing it fly :D I will keep you posted.........

I hope you're talking about your helicopter!!

Ah... Helicopters.... I am actually fixing mine again these days. I flew a roll a little bit too low and had a CFIT... :(

I fly a Raptor with an OS 50 engine. Great little machine and not too expensive either.

While my heli is grounded, I am enjoying myself with a Piper Cub from a Great Planes (around 2 metres wingspan). I am using a Saito 56 - not a rocket but it is so nice and relaxing to walk it around....

Hey Flight Detent, are you coming to KL some time?

Cheers

(...Reddo, :O )

Great news..... Yesterday, with the help of another R/C'er from Sussex, we got the engine going.... :ok: I was absolutely over the moon seeing it going after all that time. Just going to start tweaking it a bit then have a few lessons from the local club. :)

Started model flying 30+ years ago with freeflight, control line and finally r/c planes, jets and helis! Great way to keep a kid constructively occupied and instill a love of the finer points of aviation albeit on a smaller scale! So much so, I now fly the real thing for a living and still find precious time to keep my hand in with the models now and again.

Tend to fly the models solo due to the constraints of scheduling, midweek etc. but the perks are getting to visit shops, shows and fellow modellers worldwide and inevitably accumulate all those must have bargains I will be very busy building and flying them all when I get to retire! P/s Anyone looking for a G-mark .30 5 cylinder radial......have a couple spare that should be flying and not sat on the shelf!

Agree with the point that teaching a fellow full size pilot to fly r/c planes is more difficult than with a complete novice, particularly when its heading nose on, but otherwise my erstwhile colleagues soon pick it up.

Recently bought a Hirobo XRB that resides in a suitcase at an overseas hotel to keep myself amused...............bloody MS Hornet needed too much support equipment!

Anyway, happy flying, both full and model size!

About 40 years ago I started with C/L diesel powered models before making it to R/C a few years later. I built a Veron 'Robot' powered by a PAW 09 with 'rudder only' control. Not very satisfying so then I scraped up enough to fit it with 4-channel (up, down, left, right) Grundig radio and a PAW 19BR. Too much for a beginner to handle, so the PAW was replaced by an OS MaxII .15 R/C and I added engine control with a 6-channel tone filter set. That was more like it, flew pretty well.

But then came the RAF and moving around the UK in my MG Midget put a stop to much time for model flying. My last model was a Graupner Chico powered by a OS10FSR with Horizon HS3L radio. Never did get a chance to fly it and finally sold it at Chivenor. By then the radio was not much use as it was on 27MHz and CB was just becoming popular.....

Personally I prefered the 'minimalist' approach - just a model with no more than a 40" wingspan powered by nothing bigger than a .19 or possibly a .23 motor, can of (preferably) diesel fuel and transmitter. No great big coffins full of every conceivable extra, electric starters, etc.....

Aeromodelling certainly taught me a lot about structures, aerodynamic stability, radio etc. But how many kids nowadays are allowed near balsa knives, dope, cement etc.....??

Hey there, some friends and myself are organizing a big RC event the next weekend (14th to 15th June) at the A Famosa Resort near Melakka, Malaysia. We hope to see a lot of participants from all over Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. If some of you guys are around, please come, drop by and have fun.

Some events wil be spectacular, like Turbine presentations and several competitions.

Burger, do you have an address for the Melakka thing?