[Too Drunk to Fly]

Hey Ingo,

7:30 is pretty keen any bits for me? I'l be there around 9ish, earlier if I can motivate myself.
Only got 1 flight in last week, hope to get a whole lot more this weekend.

[paulj]

Sunday will be my flying day this weekend.
I will be calling into the field tomorrow about 10:30am but only
to pickup some parts for kev.
Hope wind has died down by tomorrow morning

Paul

[~KevJ~]

hey guys i wont be down saturday either but im hanging to hit the field sunday to get back in the air..

got a new motor for the skyfun and gonna run the habu up on 5S to bump her up from 750 to 1200 watts.. cant wait to get down there.. see ya all from 8:30ish sunday

[dingy]

Hi Arron,

There are some parts for you

[brotherblonde]

Gday,

I'm planning on coming down today (Sat) about 11:30 to meet some of you and (if I'm allowed) to have a fly of my Heli.
Thanks

Andrew

[robair]

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 servos (JR NES537) now chatters it's nuts off and I can cycle it away madly with the chatter constant. I find this odd as the servos have barely been used and have previously worked perfectly on both 36mhz and my prev 2.4 g receiver.
The servo chatters even when completely disconnected from the control rod. All the other servos which are the same type are super smooth as they always have been. The 537 is not a digital.

What the hell is going on here?

Cheers
Rob Byrnes

[kizza42]

Things that can cause a chattering servo:
-Flight pack voltage either high or low
-EMR on the Servo wire, recheck/reroute the connections.
-Try another channel on the RX, see if it does it on the old RX
-Goblins have sabotaged your servo (I saw it happen to 2 of Darren's expensive Hitec servos in his F15)
-Channel on Tx set to chatter mode?

[robair]

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 servos now in the cub, old servo binned.
Odd stuff.

Cheers
Rob Byrnes

[kizza42]

Heartbreaking but ultimately a good move!

Could'a Should'a Would'a is unpleasant!

You missed out today man! Siren was behaving strangely & climbing under full power, thought it was odd but put it down to the hasty radio changeover then all of a sudden I got a beautiful smoke trail, Thinking the motor had finally bbq'd itself I initiated a emergency landing. It seems the firewall/motor mount finally gave up, I have a suspicion that yesterdays 'hot' landing was a bit too stressful.

Need to learn how to do 'glass work now!

[robair]

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.
I will have a yak to you about the east west landing as I feel that there is heaps more leeway from that direction, I was really surprised you took a tailwind landing on saturday from west to east thus came in "hot". Having said that I am surprised the mount was damaged, it was still a smooth albeit fast landing.
At least you got her home ok.

I was a bit grumpy I did not get to fly today however as I was working on my builds I had fun watching the flying from my back verandah, I can see plenty of action from that position and I can say it all looks cool as!

Cheers
Rob B

[kizza42]

Its more the devil you know, I know I can make an approach from out there and pretty much nail it every time. I've managed east west landings before but not without spoilers and a STIFF headwind. The required approach angles all involve too much nose down, even if I take the bent approach up from the stormwater drain its just too slippery. I was on the backfoot both yesterday and today being stuck with a compromised radio setup, only got myself to blame there.

I take positives from this, I'll learn to fix the damage and beef up the nose and then improve the cooling properly by cutting some proper intakes in, I've decided to give the SK version of the same motor a go.

[chrism]

Hi Guys,
I'm only flying on Sunday this W/E and given the gate situation (vandalism of a few weeks back) I can no longer provide access to the field.
Happy Flying
Chris

[dingy]

Hi Guys,

I will be flying for a couple of hours tomorrow & a few on Sunday - weather permitting.

Darren is going to open up on Saturday around 7.30am & 8.30am on Sunday given the recent advents.

All the best,

Ingo

[~KevJ~]

sunday for me, praying for good weather.

[samste]

I will be down Saturday Only, Hoping Weather fine as Looking forward for some Fun Aerobatic Flying or try too anyway, and Big Cessna Flying now that i have Big Lipo in Fixing up Cg and Gliding Nicely.

Steve

[robair]

Mornin' All

Seeing as the weather forecasts have been a bit ominous here is the latest from Airservices:

General MET Briefing
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2042 UTC 21/05/10 AIRSERVICES AUSTRALIA
GENERAL MET MESSAGE BRIEFING



Prepared for: ROBFLIGHT

YSSY
IDN42903
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY
NEW SOUTH WALES

SYDNEY AIRPORT WEATHER BRIEFING
ISSUED AT 1659Z ON THE 21/05/2010 [0259 ON THE 22/05/2010 LOCAL]

SYDNEY TAF: (THIS TAF MAY NOT BE THE LATEST ISSUE)
TAF YSSY 211651Z 2118/2224
23008KT 9999 -SHRA SCT025 SCT070
FM212300 17015KT 9999 -SHRA SCT025 SCT070
FM220800 17010KT 9999 SCT025 SCT050
INTER 2118/2206 4000 SHRA BKN010
RMK
T 13 14 16 17 Q 1019 1020 1021 1020


TAF SUMMARY:
A SLOW MOVING HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM NEAR TASMANIA COMBINED WITH A LOW
PRESSURE TROUGH OFF THE NSW COAST IS BRINGING A MOIST, SOUTHERLY
AIRSTREAM TO SYDNEY. THE SOUTHERLY WINDS ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE FOR
MOST OF THE WEEKEND. COASTAL SHOWERS WILL EASE THIS AFTERNOON AS
DRIER AIR MOVES IN. AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL PUSH THROUGH LATER
THIS MORNING. UNTIL THEN THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS,
MAINLY OFFSHORE.

THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL:
SLIGHT CHANCE WITHIN 20NM OF SYDNEY AIRPORT THIS MORNING, MAINLY
OFFSHORE.

OTHER POSSIBILITIES:
30% CHANCE OF WINDS BECOMING LIGHTER EAST TO SOUTHEASTERLY THIS
AFTERNOON.
10% CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM WITHIN 5NM OF THE AIRPORT EARLY THIS
MORNING, 18/20Z.

SYDNEY OUTLOOK:
SUNDAY : SHOWER OR TWO. CITY MAX: 21
MONDAY : A LITTLE RAIN LATER. CITY MAX: 20

REGARDS
RICHARD UNTIL 7AM, THEN CHRIS.

NOTES:
1. THIS BRIEFING IS NOT AMENDED BETWEEN ROUTINE ISSUES. FOR
OPERATIONAL PLANNING, REFERENCE SHOULD BE MADE TO THE LATEST TAF OR
TTF.

[brotherblonde]

Gday

I'll be there at about 10:30 Sat with my heli's.

Andrew.

[kizza42]

G'day,

The field is too waterlogged for cars at the moment so the gate will be shut on Saturday, Members are still allowed to use the field at their own discretion but must hike in!

I wont be down on Saturday at all but am watching the weather for Sunday. It'll probably be dry but windy. Fingers crossed though

[robair]

Gday All

Weather is going to be interesting this weekend?
1107 UTC 28/05/10 AIRSERVICES AUSTRALIA
GENERAL MET MESSAGE BRIEFING



Prepared for: ROBFLIGHT

YSSY
SYDNEY AIRPORT WEATHER BRIEFING
ISSUED AT 1052Z ON THE 28/05/2010 [2052 ON THE 28/05/2010 LOCAL]

SYDNEY TAF: (THIS TAF MAY NOT BE THE LATEST ISSUE)
TAF YSSY 281045Z 2812/2918
35012KT 9999 -RA FEW015 SCT025 BKN035
FM291200 30008KT 9999 SCT020 SCT050
TEMPO 2814/2906 4000 RA BKN010
RMK
T 17 15 14 14 Q 1016 1014 1012 1011


TAF SUMMARY:
A HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE SOUTH TASMAN SEA IS DIRECTING A LIGHT
NORTHERLY AIRFLOW OVER SYDNEY. A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH OVER SOUTH
AUSTRALIA WITH A LOW CENTRE NORTHEAST OF ADELAIDE IS MOVING EAST.
CLOUD WILL INCREASE IN SYDNEY OVERNIGHT AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM AND SOME
RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. PERIODS OF REDUCED VISIBILITY AND LOW
CLOUD CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE RAIN. MOSTLY NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS
CAN BE EXPECTED AT THE AIRPORT ON SATURDAY. A LOW CENTRE IS EXPECTED
TO FORM OFF THE NSW COAST SUNDAY. THE POSITION OF THE LOW CENTRE WILL
BE CRITICAL TO WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION AT THE AIRPORT AS WELL AS THE
WEATHER.

THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL:
SLIGHT CHANCE WITHIN 20NM OF SYDNEY AIRPORT TOMORROW AFTERNOON.

OTHER POSSIBILITIES:


30% CHANCE TEMPO FOR RAIN NOT REQUIRED FOR LONG PERIODS.
10% CHANCE OF VISIBILITY BRIEFLY REDUCING BELOW 2500M IN RAIN 16/24Z.
SEE CODE GREY.
10% CHANCE OF SOME LIGHT SHOWERS AFTER 12Z TOMORROW NIGHT.


SYDNEY OUTLOOK:
SUNDAY : RAIN PERIODS. CITY MAX: 17
MONDAY : SHOWERS. CITY MAX: 17

CODE GREY:
YES. !0% CHANCE OF BELOW SAM 16/24Z.

REGARDS LILY UNTIL 7AM, THEN ALEX.

NOTES:
1. THIS BRIEFING IS NOT AMENDED BETWEEN ROUTINE ISSUES. FOR
OPERATIONAL PLANNING, REFERENCE SHOULD BE MADE TO THE LATEST TAF OR
TTF.

2. CODE GREY PROVIDES EARLY ADVICE OF A POSSIBLE LATER TAF AMENDMENT.
IT IS USED IF THERE IS A SMALL BUT REALISTIC CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM
OR CONDITIONS BELOW SPECIAL ALTERNATE MINIMA BETWEEN 14 AND 24Z.
SPECIAL ALTERNATE CONDITIONS ARE BKN OR OVC CLOUD BELOW 700FT OR
VISIBILITY LESS THAN 2500M.

[robair]

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

[samste]

I don't Know about The Floats Rob but i Tow You Around in This

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store...duct=11892
The Speed in This would be Awsome

   

PRCAC will be Called PRCBC (B for Boat for all those scratching heads)

Now i Just Need a tow line

Yes yes more Rain and soon will have a lake with Rapids

P.s Just Don't Tell my Wife

[kizza42]

Rain Rain Go Away....

Its obvious that we wont be flying much this weekend, but if it does clear up I wont be around anyway, Going away for my sisters 21st!

[chrism]

G'day All,
I went down to the field this morning to check things out and have a quick fly.
The condition of ths the strip is fairly average, the ground is not at all firm, but on the postive side there are no puddles or standing water. If anyone was thinking of flying a larger balsa plane which requires a resonable length of strip to land perhaps you may need to have a rethink, as it will just dig in on touch down and nose over. Foamies should be fine.
As far as driving in goes as long as everyone keeps relatively close to the tree line it should be OK, but please be careful about it.
At this stage I intend to fly Sunday morning provided the weather permits.

Cheers
Chris M

[dingy]

I shall try to come down Sunday morning weather permitting.

Hope to see you there.

All the best,

Ingo

[paulj]

Kev and I are planning on being there Sunday morning too.
looks like it will be ok weather wise although cold.

Paul

[helijeli]

I wont make it down Sat or Sunday. Plan to go down Monday morning. Will just walk in with my Foamie if the gate is locked.

[siskojuice]

Hi All
I Will Be Going Tomorrow Weather permits

Is Any One Else Going.

See You All There

Con

[kizza42]

Not flying on Monday! (Today)

Too much misery from the game, afraid I'll crash some more planes in sympathy!

[helijeli]

Will be down to the field around 8:30 this morning for a couple of hours.
Will walk in with a couple of planes if gates remain locked.
Outside thermometer reading 5 degrees (here at northmead), so not keen on the cold
but what can you do?

[samste]

Heading Down Field for a 1500 + Watts of Jetiger Experience.
(for a least so many seconds till she smokes if i no good with Throttle managment)

Steve