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Carl I've done much the same thing, It's so easy to sit watching all the videos!

If you can bear another video, this is me & dean flying my 3D plane

http://youtu.be/2B9_wdsWE4I

This is darn cool as well, saw it at the Rougham lma airshow this year.

http://youtu.be/y7kGAAFBl6Q

now this is cool

I used to be in the trade and knew Ali a bit, saw him fly loads! The scariest was the huge glider with a turbine pod on top that he would slow roll a few feet above the ground up the strip, it always looked like it was going in!

Nice skills with the 3d

I would love a huge Typhoon. I so love those planes, unbelievable. What amazes me that it seems the RC's can make near enough the same manoeuvres as the real thing. To put this into perspective the real one I think has something like 13 different computers to keep it in the sky. or

Do the controllers have an altimeter and horizon. How the heck do they keep track of them in the clouds.

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Cheers Lloydie!

Matty, here's Ali in action again

http://youtu.be/8zdWQ4CnEQY

I've bookmarked the vids for later

Matty you should be flying drones with them skills.

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you should get this lady to fly the plane for you

Holy feck I've never seen a sale plane do that before .

Jamie in Colchester wrote:Lloydie, do you see the program by James May? It was on telly last night, where he builds a glider?

Watched it last night on the bbc iplayer -James may toy story .

It was good and I enjoyed it , it was a shame they didn't chase the thermals to maintain hight on the crossing and using a Aulto pilot well :-( that's cheating ha ha

So do the controllers have an altimeter and digital horizon. How the heck do you fly them when they go out of sight.

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cybercarl wrote:So do the controllers have an altimeter and digital horizon. How the heck do you fly them when they go out of sight.

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No they don't . If you loose sight you loose the model .
Most radios have a very good range a mile or so . The hardest thing I found was when my 8f wing span glider was up high and traveling away I could tell what was the direction of travel ant a certain angle :-( and nearly lost it a few times .
I did loose it once in the clouds but I just dropped the nose till I could see it again .

I don't like the sound of that. I would want an Altimeter, horizon and compass, otherwise I would just loose it and not be able to see.

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lloydie wrote:

Jamie in Colchester wrote:Lloydie, do you see the program by James May? It was on telly last night, where he builds a glider?

Watched it last night on the bbc iplayer -James may toy story .

It was good and I enjoyed it , it was a shame they didn't chase the thermals to maintain hight on the crossing and using a Aulto pilot well :-( that's cheating ha ha

Oh yeah, sorry I was going to tell you more about that. It's a great little project though! I like the little model of James may, when it landed, the little boy said "look mummy it's the stupid one off TopGear'"!

Lol I thought the locals was going to run off with it :-)
I was on eBay last night looking for a rtf glider just to get back into it nought special just a 2 channel elevator and ailerons