Gday Colin We were wondering when you would find out your plane had been retrieved. It was a very cool effort all round, Kieran and his aerial recon and Steve's super ladder make a formidable team. S...

Gday All Latest TAF from airservices below, Steve we may need a few gyros this weekend. TAF issued 0309 UTC. On a brighter note (no pun intended), Daylight Saving not too far off ,,,hurrah!!! TAF S...

Gday John I'll show you how to find the MAC (Mean Aerodynamic Chord) which can then lead you to the correct CofG point. Cheers Rob B

Gday All Dust is clearing up nicely however pretty windy and gusty at the moment. Cheers Rob B

Good luck tomorrow guys, weather forecast is not promising. Not even going to bother commenting on the weekend weather for fear of infesting this particular post with far far too many swear words. F...

Gday All I almost went down this morning however there has been persistent very light rain all day. I am not sure how much moisture a motor would ingest in conditions like this however suspect it wou...

Gday Steve The weather has been crap here all the weekend, it was looking a little better this morning however has just started to lightly rain as I type this. I am going to head down, weather permit...

Gday Steve Rain dribbling pointlessly down, still hopeful things will be ok'ish in 1/2 hr or so

Gday All The sun is shining, or trying to. I will be leaving in 1/2 hour or so, just have to settle my daughter down first. Cheers Rob B

Super dodgy weather today, forecast not too good either. 2152 UTC 02/10/09 AIRSERVICES AUSTRALIA GENERAL MET MESSAGE BRIEFING Prepared for: ROBFLIGHT YSSY ...

Gday Paul I must have missed your altercation with the windsock. I always considered "Socky" to be a quiet and benign type of character however if he has been giving you stick I am more than happy to...

Gday Paul That was indeed a damn good repair job, nice one!!!! If you hadn't told me you trashed it the day before I would not have known there had been any damage at all. Cheers Rob B

Gday All I have posted another thread in regards to Coleman stuff. I can only reiterate that the pricing is red hot and I will pass these savings directly to you all. As an indicator on pricing I can...

Gday All For those who may be thinking of flying this arvo, beware inclement weather. May lightning repeatedly strike the power lines and melt them into a glowing metallic pulp. 2141 UTC 22/10/09 ...

Gday All Bummer that I could not fly on Saturday, hope all who flew had a good one. Great to hear the Siren is up Kieran, not surprised you are cooking the electrics, we would expect nothing less fro...

Gday Drew I will be taking my dogs for a strut in an hour or so, I will wheel by the field and have a look for you. Cheers Rob B

Gday All I have the rest of the week off, if anyone is heading down to the field let me know and I will try to drop by to say gday. Also, I noted a comment stating that Kieran has joined the rotor he...

Gday Drew Sorry for the late reply, I have had internet issues, no did not find anything at the field. Cheers Rob Byrnes

Gday All Hope you all had a great xmas and Santa's gifts were all LiPo powered. Not too sure about the weather today! I am going to focus on the "easing later" bit. Rain has been constant and heavy a...

Gday All Weather report for the next few days looks about as friendly as a truck crash. 2149 UTC 04/02/10 AIRSERVICES AUSTRALIA GENERAL MET MESSAGE BRIEFING ...

Gday Kev Wondering which day you will be at the field with the "monster" bits. I am easy either Sat or Sun, however will be hungover to the max Sunday due to a Sat night party that is going to be "in...

Gday Colin I would be happy to help you out with the above, have just the toools to do this. Also, funny article below involving a model aircraft in the UK, luckily Toongabbie residents are obviously...

Gday All A truly dodgy morning indeed. Looks like a "build" day for sure. Field has got to be a swamp after the serious rain we had yesterday and overnight. Also I do not know what you guys are compl...

Hehehe, nice one Steve, if anything Mac Bank should be proud of the way this guy keeps focussed on the figures and their related vital statistics. After all, that is what finance is all about. Cheer...

Arrr Captain Vella, arrrr. Your Jet ski we be needing for flying today, arrrr. Cheers Rob Byrnes

Gday Paul I will be leading a true life of leisure until the 1st March when I begin a new work contract, I can't remember the last time I had a decent amount of leave, pretty sure it was 3.5 years ag...

Gday All Just had a wander down to the field to see just how bad it is. However I could not actually reach it due to the huge amount of water flowing through spraycan alley. Can only imagine the inla...

Woohoo Big day for Mr KevJ on Sunday. You're going to turn into a ducted fan nut bigtime, I can see it happeninng after, maybe...... 2 Habu Flights. :D Then you are going to want a jet!!!!!! :lol: ...

Gday Chris I have a 13*4 and 13*6.5. I'll bring them down on sat just in case. What are you jamming that on the nose of? Cheers Rob Byrnes

Gday All I will also be at the field tomorrow, charging and checking is occuring as we "speak". Looking forward to maidening a new, yet familiar to us, addition to the Robair fleet. Cheers Rob B

Gday Ingo I'll pop down mate. Give me an sms when you are leaving and I will meet you there. Cheers Rob B

Gday All I have a question, I have installed one of my new 2.4g receivers in the uber cub pursuant to taking her for a fly today however have come across an interesting issue. One of the aileron serv...

Gday Kieran Thanks for the advice, I had retested and swapped out the servos and retested with my 36mhz receiver. The issue became highly intermittent/ random on both 36meg and 2.4 Remedy, 2 new serv...

Gday Kieran Not really heartbreaking as I have heaps of servos of that size so no big loss. Still want to know what the issue was though so have kept the servo and will pull it apart at a later date....

Mornin' All Seeing as the weather forecasts have been a bit ominous here is the latest from Airservices: General MET Briefing ------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Gday All Weather is going to be interesting this weekend? 1107 UTC 28/05/10 AIRSERVICES AUSTRALIA GENERAL MET MESSAGE BRIEFING Prepared for: ROBFLIGHT...

Gday All We had a massive amount of rain at Toonie last night, likely the field will be rather swampy come the weekend. Does anyone have a set of floats to suit a 2m span Cub? Cheers Rob B

Damn Steve, too long time no see. Here's the weather report for tomorrow from BOM. Forecast for Sunday Unsettled. Mostly stormy. Tornadic rotations from the north west. Precis: Tornados, c...

kizza42 Wrote: (15-08-2010, 05:57 PM) -- No wind, totally TX/RX related. I wish I at least dumb thumbed it on a high speed pass but noooo! -- Bummer Kieran, very sad to see her in bits. Cheers R...

chancol Wrote: (16-08-2010, 02:53 PM) -- Hi Rob, I have not met you in the field for ages. Have you posted the prop adapters to me? I haven't received them. Let me know please. Regards, Colin ...

Dunno mate? http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=10102&Product_Name=Gale_Force_Winds (40_Knot_version) I am assuming it is the Bind and Fly variety. Cheers Rob B

Gday All Pretty average weather out there right now and rain has been light and persistent all night, gonna be a soggy field for sure. Raining now however looking at the radar and the TAF it should...

Gday Steve /All Interesting forecast following, the current synoptics are quite unusual thus resulting in the severe weather in Vic and South NSW and the protracted rain that occured today. I was s...

Gday Andrew Yep, I am sure there is something out there, I am working on "combining" the YSBK YSRI and YSSY TAF's to try and get a better picture. The weather itself is not too hard, it's calculati...

Gday Andrew Yep, I'm sure our paths will cross eventually, I am back and forth to BN regularly. Next time I see you will discuss the best way to TAF merge. Or, other options. I'll be able to talk h...

paulj Wrote: (25-09-2010, 09:07 PM) -- I will be down in the morning too. Hopefully for F14's maiden flight :) -- Gday Paul Mate I hope the 14 flies well, it didn't look like a simple build and...

Gday All We just had some quite heavy rain here, hope this has not swamped up the field too much. Cheers Rob B

Gday Gazz/All We did not get a drop of rain here at Toonie, the storms last night faded out about 5k west of this location. Cheers Rob B

Gday Drew Nice rocket work mate, how many shots did it take? Cheers Rob B

brotherblonde Wrote: (13-03-2011, 11:07 PM) -- Then of course there was that "noisy" Spitfire that somehow had 2 flights, but no landings! :) I told Darren that my quest was to actually land it on...