Cheers Gazz - glad to hear that you were operating anyway. All we need is to have little or no rain during the week and things would be looking good for next weekend - mind you, it might even need a...

Did you get a rake onto the runway in the end Gazz?

Sorry mate - gotta leave in a few minutes for a day-trip up the coast. Hope you get a few circuits in though!

Skidz Wrote: (12-11-2011, 08:58 PM) -- Surely the mystery mower is Darren. -- Probably, I just didn't recognise the tyre tracks that were left behind.

Well, in a word - yes, you could fly aircraft with landing gear at McCoy tomorrow! If I had my Trojan airworthy, I'd be over there like a shot. After the shitty state the field was in only a couple ...

Being unable to go out to The Missions today, I consoled myself by having a walk around McCoy to see how it was looking. I was shocked to see it was greatly improved! In only a couple of days s...

WIlly is talking up the weather for tomorrow and although I probably won't be flying anything, I still think a drive up there to have a look will be worth while. I'm particularly keen to see some of ...

Well, it's no great surprise Gazz - but thanks anyway for the report.

Not in recent days, no - I was there on Saturday and there was water still lying about on the runway. I don't expect it will have improved at all, after yesterday's storm. I've got a really busy time...

The weather forecasts are looking predictably bad for the rest of the week, and for the weekend (surprise, surprise). At the moment, the SRCS site hasn't changed and the inference is that the weeke...

Skidz Wrote: (07-11-2011, 05:33 PM) -- Who is the second dude to get the first shipment going? -- As much as I want to, I can't - they're a great model though, by all reports. Here's something to get...

Yes mate - must have just missed you. Not a pretty sight eh?

McCoy is no-go again this weekend for the majority of our planes. There are pools of water on the runway, a biker has also paid us a visit (leaving evidence in the form of several deep tyre marks) an...

Yes, it's not good at all - steady light rain for hours now. I haven't been over to the field for a look around, but the ground around my house is well and truly saturated, which means McCoy will be r...

OK Gazz - I wasn't aware of the prop problem, bit of a bugger. Oh well, the PC-9 will eat up the space nicely instead then :)

gbanger Wrote: (01-11-2011, 06:15 AM) -- Maybe we can all meet at the Wisemans ferry pub just before the ferry and arrive as a group. (out of control hord) -- Good idea Vice! I hope your DW will be a...

Mike Close reckons that the new SRCS field is worth driving to. I'm thinking about heading out there for a look-see and a fly ... http://www.srcsclub.com/other_pages/2011flyin.html If anyone is...

Congrats Claudio - all good. Looking forward to the full-house trials :)

Nice work Steve - looks like the hand is working properly again, and no more repeat performances planned eh? :) I guess the conduits are detachable for storage and transport?

Can't make it this weekend either - but maybe some Phoenix action again tomorrow evening might have to factored in!

Just got back in from a walk around the field - as you'd expect, there are pools of water in all the usual places. It was good to see that the new widened section of the runway was dry, but there's a ...

Date: 23 Oct 11 Conditions: Ideal - good visibility, freshly mown super-wide strip, very light occasional breeze Aircraft: HK Mini P-51D (http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__14547__Hobby_King_M...

Something perhaps similar here - my son and I both have DX6i transmitters (mine is mode 2, his is mode 1) and since we share our collection of planes we need to-rebind pretty frequently. We've been d...

Looks very nice - what power-train have you got in mind?

No worries Simon, all part of the fun. Well, the offer stands - next time you're here you're welcome to a fly of the Wildcat anyway. All the best, Steve

Unfortunately, I can't open up this weekend or next :(

Here it is folks - not that it was ever in question, but learners can help Gazz down to the pilot's box with his Zimmer frame, and he'll happily impart the fruits of years of knowledge in exchange. W...

Sorry to hear that it didn't work out Simon, but it's interesting all the same. I got one of these a while back as an airframe-only kit - not assembled yet because I haven't got the space to store th...

Simon - great to hear from you! I thought Gazz told me that you'd picked up one of the Parkzone F4F Wildcats since you'd returned to Brisbane and got into RC flying, but it's not in your signature lis...

I thought that might be the case - he was apparently charging three batteries, not one ;)

Yeh, Samste-Steve did this out at Penrith a few months back when ~KevJ~ rogered his car battery doing a LiPo for his PC-9. If you've got a 4S handy, this would seem to be a better option for startin...

Thanks Jason!

paulj Wrote: (02-10-2011, 08:07 PM) -- Hi Steve I like the Stuka always have. We spoke about the Hurricane last weekend and I noticed a build thread on RCGroups today. Are youaware of it? Here is the...

Claudius Wrote: (02-10-2011, 08:21 PM) -- As Dave says, linear regs are less efficient - the excess voltage for a given load current is dissipated as waste heat (often just a zener diode to clamp the...

Thanks Dave - that fills in quite a few gaps. I've done some extra reading since that post (yes, got the order back-to-front there) and it seems that the linear implementations also dissipate more po...

Thanks Gazz - those ones would be a quality unit, no doubt about that - but by the look of the specs, you have to carry a separate 2S battery for it. I was looking around for something to run off my f...

Hi all, A couple of questions on BECs ... 1. What's the difference between a UBEC and an SBEC? (I presume the 'S' means "switching" but who cares? - what advantage does a switching BEC have over a...

1. Your suspicions are correct. Right-thrust (and often, but not always, down-thrust) lines are more pronounced when the nose of the plane is short. 2. Sounds about right - the nose wheel and its ...

I've laughed myself hoarse Claudio :( Certainly looks like a "Building Weekend" ;)

I like to think I've got a sense of humour, but this is testing that out to the max ...

It's great stuff Jason - very interesting.

The charge was perfectly sized! What an excellent sound it made :) Alles gut? Ja stimmt!

Yes Gazz - you're right! Now, all I need is for someone to commit to one so that I can get the Spitfire airframe at the same time and we don't have to pay postage on a combined order :)

Cheers Gazz - thanks for that. I'm still practicing manoeuvre number 10 on the list "Straight flight" ... will keep an eye on the others :)

Thanks for the update Claudio - I guess it's just a waiting game now. There shouldn't be any more rain, just a matter of drainage and evaporation. You're doubtful about making it to the field this w...

So Kev - it wasn't that you'd forgotten what to do with the sticks, it was just that you were let down by "old equipment". This should be something that Gazz knows all about ;) No worries, you'll be...

~KevJ~ Wrote: (14-09-2011, 06:43 PM) -- im thinking im gonna need some lessons in this art you call flying i cant remember ever doing it... -- I remember hearing you say something like this before Ke...

Yes, that would be a nice change Gazz - in fact Willy says 29 degC on Saturday!! Unfortunately, I won't get to do a field inspection/report this Friday, as I have a f#*j€ing all-day meeting at work, s...

There are strong winds blowing out here now Jason, not much chance of a let-up either.

Yes Gazz, we're all feeling the pain - but you're so much better at expressing it than we are ;) What I love (...NOT) is the irony of it being good weather all week, then dumps a load on Friday to bug...