Sam Longley

I was not there for the event. But one offs get organised in a proper way, rather than randomly. For instance we do have a training area to one side of the main field, for helis & they can fly any time (1 at a time)They stay quite low being trained or tested etc. But if someone wants to fly a heli on the main field, the fixed wing boys normally land whilst they fly. It is only for 10 mins & we are all pretty relaxed about it. No one wants to hit a £3K heli with a £1K fixed wing when landing etc Collisions do happen. I have had 2 mid airs with fixed wing & one was with the club instructor who was buddying a trainee.. Both times only 2 of us flying!!!. I have even been hit by another plane landing whilst taxiing off the field.

At our club, most of the benches have 2 vertical posts one end. One puts the wing against the post with the fuselage in the middle. Any mistake with the throttle just means a chopped off finger for the miscreant, rather than a torpedo across the pits area.🙃

Fit a streamer off one wing, or off the tail. Shows up better in a group of planes. However, our club rules are max 4 in the air at a time. Seems to me a sensible rule, as it is easy to get distracted.

Try these people https://www.capitalcrispin.com/ I have been close friends of the Crispin family for many years & they are experts in the veneer trade

I ordered a plan for a Kaos 60 from Aerofred which arrived today. Unfortunately i took the small scal drawing as "indicative" & did not realise that it would not have the wing ribs drawn. Plans from Outerzone etc do show them, but I get regular emails from Aerofred so gave it a shot. So now I have a drawing that shows the rib positions & the root, but not the sections & the all important tip. I have no idea if the cord changes-ie I have just finished an Avanti F3 pattern plane where the chord depth changes from 18.5% to 17%. I do not know if washout applies It is a nuisance as cutouts for undercarriage etc would not be available, if I just sanded across a block from one end to the other So my question is this. Can anyone please either direct me to a free source or email me a full sized section of a tip rib for a Kaos 60 so I can cut a foam core.Or better still- all of them. To avoid emails on the public forum perhaps PM me first It would be much apreciated Sam Longley

I can no longer edit my last post but here is a link to an alibre video wing freecad is not much different

To calculate ribs at any point in a wing try this. Download a copy of Freecad CAD software. Takes a little while to learn the basics, but there are loads of vids on it & you do not have to learn everything. Draw the ribs at the root & tip, along with the holes & spar slots. Set them at the correct distance for wing half span & loft between the two. Cut the loft with planes at each rib & you will get a perfect cross section at each rib. I do have Alibre Atom which I paid for but I had spent some time with Freecad which is pretty easy & fun to learn whilst between TV programs.

When you were there you should have got yourself a cheap roach pole. Great for getting foamies out of trees😀

I would rather not go down that route. He is useful to the club bringing in new members & is very popular. He is an asset that we would not wish to be without & I cannot fault his method of instruction, albeit sometimes taking a long time. That may be due to the trainee But someone who has had lesson & passes a test with him will be competent. What is better? Someone who cannot fly properly & is a danger to themself & others, or someone who is really competent to fly on their own?

It is a good flying club, with really helpful, friendly members. The instructor is a BMFA chief examiner & 2-3 days a week instructing is his income. Lessons are 1 hour broken into 3 -20minute sessions. There is a break in between whilst others fly. That works very well. He also does helicopter lessons on same basis at £35-00 per hour. He decides when one is fit to take the test & will not do so untill he says so

So you would have to control them separately.ie. one for end point on aileron & one for limit as elevator. Is that correct? Or am I talking rubbish? That means some form of additional control deep down in the menu. Now that has me wondering. Is that control - Whatever it may be- overiding the throttle cut by affecting the limit somehow

In some ways one can understand it. One can hardly buy stuff off the internet etc then expect a model shop owner to sort the problems when they never sorld the kit in the first place. BUT I do have top up lessons from time to time on the buddy lead, as do many of the members when they get brain fade, or new planes that need setting up. So he charges for 1 hour lessons. Which is fair

£25-00 is his standard fee for lessons, if one supplies their own plane & fuel. I eventiually passed my "A" test on my 40Th lesson. so that cost me £1000 to get my A test- (Plus 2 models because I crashed one practicing on my own!!) I also paid him to supply & build the 2 Wot trainers & set them up. As for programming, lots of club members have issues with it. They get it programmed & then forget how to do it. Some of the better fliers use Spectrum so there is not always anyone to ask- even if they know.

But it does not , does it. One can now select what is "motor" in the function menu & it just transfers one to a screen asking if one wants to reverse it or not ( forget exact wording) It does not take one back to throttle Anyway I have spent the afternoon copying a working program for an old trainer plane to this one then having to reset all the servos, endpoints ( What is the point of both limit & end point - I have not sussed that one yet) etc & now the plane is ready to fly

Actually I put it on to motor & got lost in the menu. It should be possible to work properly in the throttle cut menue. My other planes do. Something in the menu system is over riding it. Now I cannot get out of the motor function & function 3 is stuck on motor & i cannot get it to read throttle again. The instructions tell one how to turn motor function on but not how to turn it off again.- How frustrating is that? I am currently unable to go to the club due to being on crutches due to a broken femour following an accident 20 weeks ago. At least I have had plenty of time to build an avanti F3 & i have now sent for plans for a Kaos 60.So by the time I get back on the fiels I will have a couple of new planes to crash When I asked members for help no one knew how. The club chief instructor does know how, (he sets up most people's futabas because they are so awkward), but he would not tell me, because he did not sell me the transmitter.( I would have to pay £25-00 for a flying lesson) I bought it from another model shop because they were £80-00 cheaper. He now has the hump because my wife went to buy the OS 55 for my Xmas prezzie & he wanted £245. She bought it from Leeds model shop for £149-00 delivered. So I cannot ask him for help. I think that my final answer will be to delete this model menu completely & copy another model to the same place then just alter all the expos end points etc to suit the new plane. But it just bugs me not knowing why I do not know the answer & no one can tell me what it is in the menu that causes it. But thanks for your time anyway. It does not sound like it but I do appreciate it Sam L