Steve Houghton 1

For those interested, there is an informal vintage model glider meet happening at The Bwlch, (between Nant y Moel & Treorchi), in S Wales on the weekend of the 16th & 17th July. This is just a fun event for flying and banter.

I've just received my X20 yesterday so I was of course playing around with it last night. I copied and pasted the Amber Sound pack into the Audio file, and if I open up the File Manager in Ethos, I can see the files there. However, when I click on one of the WAV files, it doesn't play and the the screen changes to go back to the top of the list again, unlike the original Ethos files which will play. I saw this on the RC Groups page you linked and now think that I should have put it in audio/(user sound files), instead of /audio/en/system (system sound files), but I don't recall seeing a user files section. I added a Play Track in special functions, linked to a switch and tried to add a sound file, but only got the three dots ... and nothing else. SD Card (drive letter)/audio/ (user sound files)SD Card (drive letter)/audio/en/system (system sound files)

Ooops ☺️ 4th & 5th that should be

Here is my video when the PSSA visited The Bwlch in S Wales at the weekend and took part in the record attempt.

Look out for the video next Monday afternoon on YouTube.

Oh I know of one mid air that happened about 1 minute before noon between a A4 Skyhawk and I think it was a Fouga Magister. I didn't capture the collision on video but the retrieval of the Skyhawk I did, and that was a feat of human endurance in itself from the bottom of a very steep & rugged cliff.

Thanks Matty - I can't say I've ever heard of MPM! It's a shame we can't just walk into a local model shop, pick up a TX and see how it feels. Looking at both the X18 & X20, the X18 does look like it would feel nicer in the hand than the X20 but, I prefer the look of the sliders on the X20 and the larger touch screen which, being long sighted would hopefully mean that I could read screen details during flight easier, if I needed to. I may have to see if I can find both to look at and hold before making a decision. Fortunately I'm in no rush.

Thanks Matty. I'm considering changing my radio soon as my Hitec A9, (although still being a brilliant system), won't last forever, and tech is moving on. So I'm considering purchasing a Horus X10, which will cover all my glider needs from foamie wings to full house pure gliders and F5J types with all the mixes.

Matt - I have an Eclipse 7 at home which is just gathering dust and hasn't been used in years. I guess it must still work but I'd have to charge it up to find out.

That's interesting! So I have a FrySky QX7 on ACCESS protocol on opentx, can I bind my Hitec compatible RX's to that? (Somehow I think I already know the answer to that).

On the 6th & 7th June, (the Queens platinum jubilee weekend), an informal vintage glider meet is taking place at the Bwlch, (between Nant-y-Moel & Treorchi) in S Wales. So many of us are busy prepping our old model gliders ready for this event. I'll be taking a Dynaflite Bird of Time and a model I have recently acquired especially for this event, the Robbe Verso. I picked this up from a guy in Warwickshire who hadn't flown it since the 1980's. There is a video below showing me flying it for the 1st time below. So if you are a glider guider with nothing better to do over that bank holiday weekend, come along to the Bwlch and join in the flying and banter with the others.

Wow, that's in great condition!

I've passed on the info that MattyB provided and apparently a meeting is being arranged. Hopefully this can be resolved quickly.

Well done MattyB