Tune in as the guys discuss some upcoming fly-ins, and what they’ve been up to the last couple of weeks.
In this episode
Ron, Tom, and Dave discuss upcoming fly-ins, recent hobby activity, and the lighter side of hard landings that leave an airplane intact.
Topics discussed
- Upcoming RC fly-ins
- Recent RC projects and flying
- Mishaps, landings, and keeping airplanes flying
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Episode 190 Transcript
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[Unknown speaker 00:00:12] hello everybody welcome to the RC Plane Lab podcast I’m Tom I’m Ron and I’m dave hey guys.
[Unknown speaker, 00:00:18]. And that reminds me, talk into the microphone and talk about time. Okay, we have had some. Did we get another one? Yes, sorry about your talking. And then all of a sudden,
[Unknown speaker 00:00:30] then you turn back and you look there I can hear you again maybe I should get one of those.
[Unknown speaker- 00:00:36] microphones that connects to the headset. You know? Oh, there you go. Maybe then it would always be right in front of my mouth. You just duct tape into the mic, or you could just duct tape this huge microphone right to my face. I think that’s what we should do. My apologies, it is something I’m conscious of, but I’m still apparently not very good at staying right in front of the microphone. Yeah, I know well, and yeah, anyway, because of all the editing you do, I was gonna say we don’t need.
[Unknown speaker, 00:01:06]. To get to the behind the scenes too much, but I don’t run it through the same scrubbers that I used to, so we don’t have the volume leveling thing, because that’s a couple hours I don’t want to spend.
[Unknown speaker, 00:01:14]. I did not know that. Okay, well, I will try to be better. Tommy be, better be, I’ll try to be better. No, don’t try, just do it. There is no try right, only do.
[Unknown speaker, 00:01:27]. Anyway, that was fun, yeah. What are we going to talk about? Well, we don’t have much. As we can tell by the probably be a short episode, that’s okay. As we can tell by what we’re talking about so far.
[Unknown speaker 00:01:37] yeah half a sheet of paper there with some stuff on it that which is not much that’s not a lot but.
[Unknown speaker, 00:01:42]. Anyhoozle, we can talk about what’s coming up. We have a couple, actually yeah a couple, fly-ins, maybe three, depending yep, coming up. We have a new release, ish, maybe from it’s a new release to talk about, yeah, and then I did some flying, dave did some flying, tommy hasn’t no, and that’s about it.
[Unknown speaker, 00:02:04]. Yeah, yeah, it’s been a really for me. It’s been a busy couple of weeks. It has. Oh, I had a drill weekend in there so I didn’t get to fly at all. Just a hint: when I say, oh, that means shut up, I have
[Unknown speaker, 00:02:16] something to say: yeah, I’m kidding, you can finish your story. No, that was it. I was just saying I had a busy couple weeks. Yeah, I know, when you have drill weekends you get kind of cranky, I do, because you’re like I can’t do anything. That’s true. I’m like your job sucks. No, but I got my mower. Oh, that is exciting. That is exciting. I saw it. It’s mowing as we speak. It’s really quiet. It’s not bad. Yeah, it’s got some issues. I’m gonna give it a few more tweaks. Weeks, tweaks, whatever you want to say. Weeks, that’s two weeks tweaks. Oh, is that what it is? So it’s a tweaker. No, but anyway, flashback should my old job.
[Unknown speaker, 00:02:55]. Oh, that’s right. Dave did drug testing anyway. That was pretty cool. It’s working out well so far. A couple things that we needed to kind of figure out, but we’ll get that done and I’ll be happy. I think the plan, like I said before, as long as everything works out and it performs as necessary, we’ll be ordering a second one and then we’ll be happy, would you say. It’s working as advertised. Right now- not quite, but I will also. I will also give a little leeway, as this is a new.
[Unknown speaker, 00:03:30]. Company, a new product that has not had a lot of testing done? Yep, and I’m absolutely fine with that, as long as they continue to stand behind things, which they are. There’s a new software update like every week, oh wow, so it seems to be doing an okay job. It’s doing a very good job. I mean, the property looks nice. Thank you it just the things that I knew beforehand, like the slow charger that came with it. They will be sending fast chargers here in the next. Probably three weeks, I think, is when they’re supposed to be sending them out to get here, and that will make all the difference in the world, right?
[Unknown speaker, 00:04:02]. Now it takes about five and a half to six hours to charge, which sucks with the fast charger. It’ll be an hour and a half. Oh, that’ll be much better. That will make all the difference in the world.
[Unknown speaker, 00:04:12]. So is it just cut during daylight hours or is it up all night running? You can do it all night if you want, but the grass gets too wet so I don’t at this point. So, but yeah, it can run around at night if you.
[Unknown speaker, 00:04:21]. Want it to. Yeah, it has headlights it has. Yeah, it’s actually cool and just to play around, so it has like cameras on it. So it actually is looking for things like if you walk in front of it’ll stop like a foot away from you and stuff and not run into you and that kind of stuff. Well, that’s good, and so just playing with it at night- the other day it was out mowing when it was completely dark and I turned the headlights off through the app you can control that- yeah well, it thought it saw something so it just stopped and that like wouldn’t go anywhere because it couldn’t see.
[Unknown speaker, 00:04:51]. Couldn’t see, so I turned the lights back on and I was like, oh, I’m happy now and I just kept. So it.
[Unknown speaker, 00:04:56]. Has to have the lights on for itself at dark. Yeah, yeah, it doesn’t do anything. It doesn’t use an infrared beam, it actually uses real light. Yeah, it actually looks through the camera. Oh be darn.
[Unknown speaker, 00:05:06]. That’s pretty cool, kind of like my car does. Yeah, that’s all vision pretty cool. Yeah, well, we’ll talk about that more as I use it more, but so far I’m I’m happy. How long did it take to like program it?
[Unknown speaker 00:05:18] two years oh to map it out yeah half hour maybe oh really I mean it doesn’t take what do.
[Unknown speaker 00:05:23] you just walk around with the app or something basically pretty much you drive around like an.
[Unknown speaker, 00:05:26]. Rc car, which is kind of neat on the phone it has, you know it’s a tank drive right, so it has tracks right. So the what the left finger is forward and backwards and then left right on the right thumb- cool. Drive around like a car and then it knows exactly where to go. That’s pretty cool.
[Unknown speaker 00:05:42] nice I look forward to seeing it get dialed in me too yeah I mean it looks good now.
[Unknown speaker, 00:05:51]. The r does. It takes. Like I said it, there is a learning curve based on cut speed, travel speed, all that kind of stuff, but we’ll figure it out. Cool, there’s a good online community. Nice, so very helpful. Nice, anyway, any who’s in way, what’s, what’s, what’d you say? Any, any who’s? That’s it. Any who’s all, any who’s all. So shall we talk about the new airplane that was released? New airplane, ish.
[Unknown speaker, 00:06:16] new, yeah, your paint job. It’s a new release. It’s a new paint job, but it’s a re-release. Then there we go under different colors. Yeah, the cletus mcfarland version of the super cub. Is it the super?
[Unknown speaker 00:06:29] what’s it yeah the one carbon cup carbon cup 1.3 I think it looks pretty cool I mean it’s.
[Unknown speaker, 00:06:33] a pretty close approximation of the one that is so popular on youtube. I do like the paint job. Yeah, it’ll show up like yellow, just really pops in the- in the air, I think- and the dark flag.
[Unknown speaker, 00:06:46]. Underneath makes a nice visual contrast. Yeah, yeah, and it looks cool. So I’m sure there’s something dave doesn’t like. Dave, they got to give up on the gray windows, told you we knew it, but actually I kind of agree with him. It does actually work in this case because it has gray on the back of the.
[Unknown speaker, 00:07:02] fuselage, but they need to be black, I’m not, or darker, I’m not gonna lie. I actually was killing time before we. We sat down to do this before you guys got here and you ordered one. Oh god, no, oh no. That does nothing really for me, but anyway. So I was watching the video and it showed him holding it up in front of his actual one, yeah, and I was like, oh dave’s gonna hate those windows. That was the only thing I could think of when I saw the actual video. Other than that, I love it. It looks great, I think it.
[Unknown speaker 00:07:32] looks pretty cool I’m not sure if I will buy one but I’m fairly confident I won’t I have a large.
[Unknown speaker, 00:07:39] cub. Okay, so I don’t need another cub, although cubs are pretty great. I’ve got and he has like 15 of them, so in different sizes. You say you’re saying he’s a cub fan. Well, I would say he’s a cub fan, not a cubs fan, but a cub fan. Well, he has more than one. So does that make it cubs? Well, he is a.
[Unknown speaker 00:07:57] fan of cubs I’m getting old so that means I have to buy cubs getting old wow no I was just.
[Unknown speaker 00:08:06] agreeing getting there yeah so anyway yeah that’s really kind of it for the week so I don’t know.
[Unknown speaker, 00:08:13]. Who cletus mcfarland is, do you guys? He’s not a real. I’m not a real fan of his, but I’ve seen some of.
[Unknown speaker, 00:08:20]. His stuff and it’s decent. So I’ve been watching his youtube stuff for quite a few years now. He’s been gosh. It’s been over five years now. He’s been popular on youtube as a car guy. They build cars, him and his, his crew. They build automobiles and, you know, do crazy things with them: burnout competitions. Well, he bought a racetrack down in florida a few years back and he’s really like put motorsports like kind of mainstream, like motorsports always seem to kind.
[Unknown speaker, 00:08:58]. Of be like a, like a- I don’t want to say a fringe hobby, but like a hobby for the people who could just afford it. Well, like these guys have taken like beater cars and like put them on youtube and done stupid things with them: burnouts and just it’s been a lot of fun to watch. But he sort of crossed over, so to speak, into aviation with model airplanes. So like jace dusha, he, you know, has been on the channel and flying stuff and got cletus. His real name is garrett mitchell, but his stage name for lack.
[Unknown speaker, 00:09:35]. Of a better term is cletus mcfarland, and he’s created this whole channel. Anyway, recently, like in the last couple years, he’s gotten into airplanes, also model airplanes, which then sort of got him into full-size airplanes. He I think he started with- I’m probably going to get this wrong, but I think it was a the carbon cub, wasn’t his first airplane? Okay, but he has a helicopter that he that he bought and refurbished and painted. It’s called consuela, that’s the name of the air the helicopter. It’s a huge 500, I think, but anyway. So now he’s sort of a he’s sort of a jack of all trades when it comes.
[Unknown speaker, 00:10:12]. To anything that moves, like he’s into cars and airplanes, helicopters. I mean he bought a. He bought a jet, I think it was a. I want to say it was a falcon 20, might have been a falcon 10. That was not airworthy and he got it like really cheap and now it’s on like display, it’s like part of his display at the freedom factory. That’s the name of the racetrack he bought or he named it after he bought it. So anyway, he’s just a really big youtube personality and, yeah, made the transition, not a
[Unknown speaker, 00:10:44]. Really a transition, but he added model aviation and full-size aviation to his repertoire okay recently in the last few years. So he’s he’s a very popular youtube figure and also, like just recently he’s he’s gotten into nascar. He actually drove the kinetics car and I think it was the. I think that’s a bush series, whatever it’s called. Now I don’t know what the bush series is. I don’t follow nascar left, followed by left, but yet another one right, right and did. I guess he crashed out of the first race and he did okay in the second race, or maybe I have that backwards, but yeah, he’s just a. He’s just.
[Unknown speaker- 00:11:18]. This big goof- I don’t want to say he’s goofy, but he’s a kind of goofy guy- but he’s really. He’s really kind of affable and it’s nice entertainment. He’s actually kind of fun to watch. If you’re into that sort of thing, so cletus mcfarland- that’s his youtube channel- you can. I mean, he’s gonna find it. The guy goes back I think 10 years worth of videos now. So, and prolific like, he produces several videos weekly on the youtube channel, not short ones either. We’re you know. So I can’t imagine the amount of time he spends, or his crew spends, on editing and recording and all that kind of stuff. Well, you could probably.
[Unknown speaker, 00:11:52]. Imagine, because you’ve done some editing, not that much. Well, you’ve done something like when we started, you did a lot of editing, so you can imagine how much time that takes. So full-time job then, yep, so
[Unknown speaker, 00:12:02]. Cool, I might have to check him out then, because, like I said, I’m I’ve heard of him, because I mean you hear of him, but I’ve never actually watched a video or have any idea what he’s about. They’re pretty.
[Unknown speaker, 00:12:11]. Entertaining. I like I said I’ve been watching his channel for quite a while now and I think I’m up to speed. I think I’ve watched the last few, but anyway, cool, he’s fun to watch. But yeah, now the carbon cub, and in which is a pretty close approximation of, I’d say I guess it’s really almost an exact replica of his actual airplane. It looked close from what I saw. Yeah, so, and that airplane flies well anyway. So it’s a good combination. Cool, yep. And I think it only added what? 20 Bucks? 20 Bucks higher than the base. So yeah you’re, you’re paying for a little bit of.
[Unknown speaker 00:12:44] licensing I’m sure excuse me I would think so but prices have gone up also so who knows that’s true.
[Unknown speaker 00:12:51]. They have. I checked the price on the base that’s on the internet right now and there’s it’s twenty dollars difference. So oh okay, there you go, let’s just paint job and licensing name cool. Well, good for him.
[Unknown speaker, 00:13:06]. What else as far as new releases, that’s really kind of all I’m I’m aware of, I’m I’m waiting to- hopefully one of somebody we know will get one of those scrappies and can kind of tell us how those
[Unknown speaker 00:13:20] fly oh dave has show and tell they’ve brought a show and tell to an audio only podcast so.
[Unknown speaker, 00:13:27]. Cool dave, look at this new release as well. Yeah you, this is all you dave. So this is. I got a new kit.
[Unknown speaker, 00:13:35]. This comes from 13th squadroncom. They’ve got a bunch of flat foam. Yeah, I got about five dollars worth of foam here for 50 bucks, but anyway, this is a really nicely laser cut foam board kit. Puts you in the mind of the flight test stuff, but not as angular and chunky looking. This is actually really nice looking. It’s a measurement bf 109e emile nice looking airplane. It’s all laser cut.
[Unknown speaker 00:14:06] he even signed it so I’m kind of that’s a collector’s item collector’s item yeah you better not you better.
[Unknown speaker 00:14:12] order another one I bet you don’t want to put this one together it’s signed yeah no it’s going to get.
[Unknown speaker- 00:14:17]. Built. Okay, it came with a laser cut motor mount. That’s kind of a unique situation. It snaps in and out. So it’s easy maintenance. You squeeze the tabs and you just slide out your motor pod. Oh, that’s cool.
[Unknown speaker, 00:14:28]. As long as it doesn’t come out while you’re flying. That’s what I’m kind of worried about. But this is not real high powered, so I think it’s. I’m sure it’s been tested, it’s. It snaps in pretty, pretty solid, pretty solid. What would make you want to take it out? Though, just out of curiosity, it’s buried inside this nose where you can’t get to it, so you just snap it and then you can slide it out to solder, okay, or change motor or whatever you need to do maintenance wise. I guess that makes sense.
[Unknown speaker 00:14:51] because there’s probably no cowl on like I’m used to where you can put the cowl on and take it off.
[Unknown speaker, 00:14:55]. To get to the motor: okay, well, that makes sense. Easy access and the lines look really good on this. It’s not way out of scale. Done a nice job. This is his first kit. However. He’s got several other aircraft on his website that you can go to and download for free and cut your own kits. I wonder if
[Unknown speaker 00:15:13] you’d be able to find a park flyer plastics canopy actually looking at this with the 109 these are just.
[Unknown speaker- 00:15:19] flat panels. So there you go. I’m thinking it’s pretty easy just to make my own framing and nice and do that although the painted up version. They do a video on how to paint it. The painted up version actually looks fairly decent as a painted canopy okay, but I definitely was wanting to play with it and see if I could cut it out and, yeah, do a framed canopy for it. Yeah, I mean it looks
[Unknown speaker 00:15:42] well done that’s a lot it’s a large stack of foam though yeah it’s five sheets I think they’re supposed.
[Unknown speaker, 00:15:47]. To be in there looks like quite a few. Yeah, it’s all laser cut. It’s got stuff printed on it like sheet one and it’s got some various different directions and so forth printed on it. So cool, nice, nice stuff, yeah. And, like you said, he’s got freebies on the online. You can download and cut your own. So- and this is the first of many to come, apparently including twins, twins, cool. Well, you have to let us.
[Unknown speaker 00:16:10] know next episode how it goes together and how it flies yeah because we know dave knowing dave yeah it’ll be.
[Unknown speaker 00:16:15] finished painted and ready to fly before our next recording painted crashed don’t say crap in two.
[Unknown speaker: 00:16:22]. Weeks give me two episodes. Okay. Yeah, dave is one of the most prolific builders. I know like the guy, it’s crazy the stuff he gets done. I’m envious. Yeah, like even when I finally get to retire, I’m not sure.
[Unknown speaker 00:16:42] I’ll be able to keep pace with dave that’s what happens when you have no life I was thinking it.
[Unknown speaker 00:16:46] but I wasn’t going to say it well that’s a life that is a model airplane life a good life actually.
[Unknown speaker, 00:16:51]. Like I- like I do build way more and I fly- I will say that, no, you should fly more, I should, I don’t well.
[Unknown speaker, 00:16:58]. We’re going to remedy that. No, tomorrow, yes, yes, oh, do you want to talk about events? I’m sorry. Well, I mean, if you’re going into it, have at it, that’s fine. Well, tomorrow’s our event down at budapart. I’m really excited about that. Even though it’s going to be sweltering, it’s going to be really warm, I think.
[Unknown speaker 00:17:16] that’s an understatement oven like oven that also I think is an understatement so how would you.
[Unknown speaker, 00:17:23]. Describe it. I mean hot as hell, maybe I don’t know. That’s pretty even going. I mean I personally don’t know how hot that place is, but I mean assuming right, yeah, like if all the descriptions are accurate, I’ll let you know, okay.
[Unknown speaker, 00:17:40]. No, it’s going to be. It’s going to be. Yeah, would you say. It’s going to be. No, no, I was going to, but I don’t want to say, because you make fun of me all the time, it’s going to be pretty w-a-r-m.
[Unknown speaker, 00:17:52]. But I, even with the heat, I’m still pretty excited. It’s been, man, it’s been years since I’ve flown there, so it wasn’t the last time you went there that you crashed, right, no, no, no, okay, this was one of maybe. I mean so I was trying to think the other day. The last time I flew there I was in college, so that would have been at parks from 90 to 93.
[Unknown speaker 00:18:17] ish oh that’s not bad I thought it was a lot older than that no I graduated high school in 89.
[Unknown speaker 00:18:22] so I mean it wasn’t much earlier than 19 back in the late 1900s yeah right that makes it sound.
[Unknown speaker, 00:18:31]. Yeah, please phrase it that way anymore. So it would have been like 91 or 92 probably is the last time. Maybe 93 was the last time I flew there. But yeah, the dualist crash was probably one of the earlier times I flew there. Because I flew there, you know, the entire time I was going to school down there. So anyway, I’m really excited. It’s been a long time and it’s a really great facility too. Like why I haven’t flown there, I don’t know, because they, you know, you can buy a one day pass and it’s 100 plus miles away, but that could have something to do with it, yeah, but I mean, you know, but I’m
[Unknown speaker, 00:19:05]. Excited, I’ll get to see where the crash happened. Oh, that is yeah, that is the. That’s the place that really drove us to build the dualist. It is well, yeah, had you not failed, I would not have one.
[Unknown speaker, 00:19:16]. Here’s a funny thing about that is there are parts on the current dualist that were on the dualist when it crashed there. So that’s you know full circle moment, right? I hope they’re not haunted.
[Unknown speaker, 00:19:29]. What’s the retracts? Maybe they’re waiting to? And the tune pipes? So that’s really, yeah, one of the engines, I guess. So, yeah, maybe they’re waiting to find their grave to die. No, don’t say that it should be fine. I flew the dualist a few weeks ago and everything was fine. It’s fine, it’s all fine. That’s yeah, possibly go wrong. What could, yeah, what could possibly go wrong? Well, let’s start counting. Oh, no, we don’t actually want to. Well, let’s see what. Let’s start with things that I could potentially forget to take that I need for the dualist, true, so I don’t know, that’s I mean, if I take my flight.
[Unknown speaker, 00:20:03]. Box. I have fuel and nice starters and all that. I rigged up my spare 6s LiPo with a plug on it so I can power my starter. So I’ve got an electric starter. That’s convenient. Now not, I don’t have to drag a big 12 volt battery. So I’ll have that in the flight box. So I won’t forget that pneumatic or mechanical retract. They’re pneumatic and the pump is sitting on top of the flight box. I thought about that. So I mean, I think that’s it. Have you made a list? No charge batteries, yet they’re like. Yes, I
[Unknown speaker 00:20:38] charged them like they were they finished up right before I left to come out here so they should be.
[Unknown speaker, 00:20:42]. Good, there we go. Ah, it’ll be all right, no matter what, it’ll be a story. So anyway, I’m taking the dualist, I’m gonna.
[Unknown speaker- 00:20:52]. Take the stick. I’m gonna try to take the Telemaster. Trash, can Telemaster? I’m gonna try to take all the stuff that’s like been on the on the podcast, so you know if any fans are down there they’ll be able to see them in person if they want. Oh, don’t, don’t prepare for that, why, I’m just joking. I’m gonna take the electric streak if I can fit it in the car. Yeah, just should be a good time. I don’t know if
[Unknown speaker 00:21:15] I’m gonna take anything to fly to be honest with you well I’ve got stuff I know but we’ll see yeah.
[Unknown speaker, 00:21:19]. I think we are all driving separately, so well, yeah, for one of the rare times, laurie’s gonna go with me, so that’ll be. That’ll be cool. Otherwise you could have ridden with me, but sorry.
[Unknown speaker, 00:21:29]. No, that’s fine. Or he wanted to go and I didn’t want to tell her. No, no, that’s perfectly okay. I, I don’t. I don’t want to be tied down to somebody else’s schedule at this point. Oh, I gotcha yeah.
[Unknown speaker 00:21:39] because if it’s going to be that hot I do well under that hot no so we’ll see I don’t either like.
[Unknown speaker, 00:21:44]. As long as there’s shade I’ll be okay. But like, if we’re out in the sun, I don’t have a generator and a fan. Nice, nice, that’ll be cool. I haven’t got my air conditioner. That was exactly what I was thinking. I looked right at you. I was like: well, how’s the air conditioning coming? That’ll wait.
[Unknown speaker, 00:22:03]. Okay, oh, I did, I think. Did I have it last time? Did I have the no, the electric jack last time? Okay,
[Unknown speaker, 00:22:11]. You did not remind me when we leave. I’ll show it to you. Okay, I like it, but anyway, yeah, Ron. So Ron’s not going to take any airplanes. Possibly probably you should take something small electric.
[Unknown speaker 00:22:22]. Yeah, throw umx in there. Yeah, oh no, I’ve got room, it’s in the car. Oh, I know, I’ve got room, I’m not.
[Unknown speaker, 00:22:27]. Worried about that. It’s just, we’ll see, okay, is it one of those things where you’re just not going to feel like it because it’s so hot, I don’t know? Okay, that’s, that’s a probable, probable thing that.
[Unknown speaker, 00:22:38] happened. Yeah, dave, what are you and daniel taking? I know daniel’s trying to go bring his robin hood 30. The little robin, yeah, yeah, the small one. Yeah, what else he’s bringing, I don’t know. He’s got resident airplanes that live in the trailer, so I don’t know. So those will go. Whatever the big loud stick, is it fixed? So the two trip stick is fixed, but the spring starter popped off so we weren’t able to fly it. I’ll have an electric starter. Yeah, well, we just don’t want that spring banging.
[Unknown speaker, 00:23:08]. Around in there loose, so anyway, it’ll be fine. I don’t know what he’s bringing. I know he specifically mentioned that he wanted to bring the robin hood. That’ll be a good place to fly it. Yeah, I’m bringing the mctwist, my anyone, which is a navalized cub. Have you flown that one yet? Yes, it’s got two flights. Nice, I think it’s got two. It might have one, but I’m pretty sure it’s got two flights that.
[Unknown speaker, 00:23:34]. Airplane looks so nice. I love how that airplane came out. It’s just a cub, so I know, but it looks good. It looks nice. Yeah, I really need to put a pilot and it’s an uncommon scheme. I think that’s why I
[Unknown speaker, 00:23:44]. Like it’s not yellow, right or green, exactly, yeah, exactly. So that looks good. We’re going to do that. The anyone. I’m going to bring the e-streak, the original. Yeah, I was going to say I could bring one, but it would be foam. See how fast it can reach the max service ceiling. I wonder what they are there. I don’t know if they’ve got a waiver for that or not. So everybody I think, oh god, I’m going to talk.
[Unknown speaker, 00:24:11]. Without knowing. I think everybody got 700 feet, oh, okay, but I think depending on where you are- because I know eli now is always 1200 feet, no matter what, oh, so they don’t have to submit a waiver every time, oh nice, I know we don’t have to worry about that. That’s wonderful, that’s really.
[Unknown speaker, 00:24:25]. Great news actually. Yes, I can see 400 really fast, but with that, electric plenty, yeah, yeah, well, and even 700 would be plenty. And then I’m planning on taking a little xb70- cool, hopefully it’s calm the one.
[Unknown speaker 00:24:40] you got from terry the one I got from yeah that’ll be fun it’ll be hot so there’s that.
[Unknown speaker 00:24:45] yeah I’m afraid it’s gonna thermal away from me or melt or melt I’d be more worried about that.
[Unknown speaker 00:24:52] well it’s the yeah so I’m going light and easy I get it me too I’m taking the most complicated.
[Unknown speaker, 00:24:59]. Planes I own, you know, the dualist with all the air and nitro motors and stuff, and oh, I was going to try to take the gb also, which is this three-cylinder radial powered. So I, you know that’s good, so that’ll be, so that won’t be complicated at all. Let’s get all of the complicated. Yeah, yeah, why don’t you take the jet while you’re at it? Well, I don’t know if there’s enough room to fly the jet there, but if it would fit I would take it to display it. You know, that’d be kind of neat. I think not everybody you know has seen jets up close. Really, I mean, I guess not, but I mean, until last year I hadn’t seen.
[Unknown speaker, 00:25:37]. A jet up close. Well, except for joe null, I guess. Yeah, I guess that’s true. So, and I’ve been in the hobby a long time, yes, so you know long time- but I don’t think it’ll fit. I’m just thinking complicated with all the oh yeah, actually those aren’t very complicated, to be honest. No, they’re really not. I.
[Unknown speaker 00:25:57] mean they not to get on that but that’s probably one of my more simple assembly of airplanes to take.
[Unknown speaker- 00:26:03]. To the field. Yeah, yeah, but anyway, yeah, it’s gonna be gonna be a good time. Hopefully we’ll see some folks that we know there, some folks that are on the discord. I think there’s one or two guys from the saint louis area there. Maybe we’ll see them. Nice, if you guys see us and you’re there, of course you’ll. It’ll be over by the time. No, we’re gonna put this out tonight. Right, we’ll see. That’s the plan, yeah. So yeah, if, if you see us, be sure to stop by and say hi, yeah, I like that.
[Unknown speaker, 00:26:33]. Dave likes that, Ron, it makes him uncomfortable, so definitely do that. I’m gonna try to remember: bring the stickers. So, yes, I’m gonna remind you guys. Yeah, bring, bring stickers, because I don’t think I have them. Why not? You gave them all away. I shall give you some, okay, because, well, they’re not in the box where I keep the cards. You know the business cards. So I may have given them all away already, which is a good thing, sure, that’s why we got them. Yes, what else is coming up? So after that, we have the jet meet. Oh, that’s gonna be so much fun. We can’t talk about jets, though we can.
[Unknown speaker, 00:27:08]. I’m just teasing. No, so that’s, that’s the weekend after and that will be. I think. Honestly, I think I’m gonna be there thursday, friday, saturday. I don’t think I’m gonna be able to take wednesday.
[Unknown speaker, 00:27:20] off. Okay, I’m, I think I’m gonna try to go friday and saturday. Okay, I think I’m. I think crystal might be coming saturday to help. Are you staying there? No, okay, no, no. So the trailer’s not quite ready for.
[Unknown speaker, 00:27:33] that, no, there’s no air conditioning. I’m not, although have you looked at the weather? It’s actually pretty good. So tuesday- what was it? Tuesday- is supposed to be 90- 93, and then wednesday, supposed to be 83. Really, and it starts wednesday, nice, yeah. So finally we catch a break. Well, and then, like the high mid to high 80s the rest of the time that’s doable, that won’t be too bad, yeah, yeah, like tomorrow’s 184 degrees is going to be a lot more. Are you going to fly this year there?
[Unknown speaker, 00:28:05]. I haven’t decided yet if I do. I might just a couple times, but there seems to always be enough to do around there behind the scenes right, kind of make the to make it run smoothly. That all I’m happy to do, that kind of stuff- yeah, I have the field all year- is kind of how I look at it right, and that’s kind
[Unknown speaker, 00:28:22] of where I’m at. Also, dan asked me if I was gonna fly and I was like I don’t think. So I’m not. I mean I’m comfortable flying the airplane, yeah, but I don’t know. I think I would rather, like you’re talking about, you know, help where I can and watch mostly, yeah, and talk to the guys and stuff and cut up. So, like you said, I have the field pretty much any other time. So, yeah, probably won’t feel the need to fly, although, who knows, when I get there I’ll be like dang, I should.
[Unknown speaker, 00:28:53]. Have brought an airplane tomorrow I will. Yeah, we’ll see, but no, and then after that, the weekend after that, which is terrible- playing on my part, we’re having the warbird and classics event and that is the same weekend. I didn’t realize that I’m going camping, so I shall get to see friday. About half of it that’s friday, saturday thing that of course this is the first year. We’re kind of trying to bring that back, so it should be a good turnout. Is that’s not into september, right?
[Unknown speaker 00:29:24] that’s the first weekend it goes to the first weekend that labor day weekend yeah so the weekend.
[Unknown speaker- 00:29:30]. After that, I think, is out for me because of work. So, yeah, I should be able to get catch at least one or.
[Unknown speaker, 00:29:37]. Maybe two days of that. Well, if you’re off friday, maybe you can come over and meet me there in the morning for a bit. Yeah, I’ll have to leave, probably about 3, 30 or so. Oh, that’d be perfect, actually. So
[Unknown speaker, 00:29:46]. Yeah, we’ll, we’ll talk about it, okay, yeah, and then that’s, I think, all the events. Right, I think that’s the last big event. Yeah, there may be a fun fly here and there that you know, like I think streeter is.
[Unknown speaker 00:29:57] we have streeter coming up middle oh that’s right I know in september yeah on the calendar too so I’d.
[Unknown speaker 00:30:01] like to do that if that’s not on a work weekend yeah I gotta figure out how to get my trailer out.
[Unknown speaker 00:30:06] there because I have no vehicle to pull it so yeah there’s that yeah anyway yeah so.
[Unknown speaker 00:30:15] that’s events cool I think yeah that’s all that’s the only ones I’m tracking so what else.
[Unknown speaker 00:30:24] well I went flying they went flying too you want to talk about your flying it’s gonna take 30.
[Unknown speaker- 00:30:28] seconds. Oh, that’s fine. So I went flying last sunday. The air was bumpy, but I didn’t crash anything. Well, that’s good. And we’re all scared to death of the corn. So, yeah, no one leaves the field. Well,
[Unknown speaker 00:30:38] especially when it’s 98 degrees and then I mean then you get the corn sweat on top of that and the.
[Unknown speaker 00:30:44] corn is eight feet tall oh my god it’s good 10 foot I don’t know what variety they planted this.
[Unknown speaker 00:30:49] year, but it’s the tall stuff. Yeah, it’s huge. Yeah, like it’s tall, I know it’s big. I’ve been in it. Big in corn, yes, you have, I have not. Honestly, depending on what I crashed in there, I would just be like
[Unknown speaker 00:31:01] and it’s planted closer together than ever well yeah it looks like they drilled it this year like.
[Unknown speaker 00:31:06] it doesn’t seem like the rows are like rows it seems like it’s just corn everywhere just threw it.
[Unknown speaker 00:31:12] yeah let it go it’s slow so nobody leaves the field it’s fly directly above the runway.
[Unknown speaker, 00:31:19]. Your turns are vertical instead of horizontal. Right, I lost it. Right above me, shoot. Well, there is no, that’s corn too. I was gonna say you could go behind you, but that’s corn. There weren’t behind.
[Unknown speaker 00:31:31] there is beans off to the far end on the east but that’s way that’s way down there yeah although.
[Unknown speaker 00:31:39] that’s still hard to find if you crash something in there it is surprisingly hard to find because.
[Unknown speaker- 00:31:43]. Beans cover everything up. Yeah, yeah, they’re like: haha, it’s mine now. Yep, so what did you fly? Well, you’re gonna ask me that and I can’t remember. I had the mctwist- basically what I’m taking to st louis. I had the mctwist and I had the umx turbo timber and there’s something else that went with me, and I can’t remember what. It was so memorable. That’s why I had to write my stuff down, because I would forget. Also, it’s been recorded.
[Unknown speaker, 00:32:11]. In the log. But sorry, what I just remembered, ah, what? So I don’t even know where to start. So I was going to update my spreadsheet. Oh boy- and you know how I am with technology and computers stuff. Right, it’s a wizardry. Yeah, it’s all black magic and voodoo. Anyway, I went to update my spreadsheet, so I opened my old ancient laptop and I bring up my excel spreadsheet and I can’t, it won’t. Let me edit.
[Unknown speaker, 00:32:45]. It. I’m like what is going on? So I look to the top right and there’s like apparently you can log in to microsoft. You have to have like a microsoft account or something to keep your applications updated. Like this is an excel program that’s been on my laptop since I bought the laptop eight years ago and I’ve never had to like log in to microsoft to be able to use my. Now you do. Now. Well, luckily lori has a microsoft, I guess, account. I think you can get free ones, I mean like you don’t have to pay.
[Unknown speaker, 00:33:21]. For the 360 or anything. Right, I couldn’t find a free one, if there is a free one. Oh. So, luckily, lori has an account, I think through work, so she logged in on my old laptop so that I can update my spreadsheets now. But yeah, they get you coming and going these days, and that’s a not a cheap subscription, by the way. No, it’s not. It’s like 139, like that’s the cheapest one I could find was like 139, something, I think, a year. That seems like you’re doing it wrong. Right, like, no, seriously like.
[Unknown speaker, 00:33:53]. No, I agree with you, but like I, all the stuff I click through and you know they, they have the automatic pop-ups. Oh here, would you like to, you know, subscribe to whatever? And I’m old but I’m not so old that I don’t know when I’m getting taken or whatever. So I didn’t click on some of the links because I know they’re probably spam or whatever, but like. So they called and asked my credit card number and I gave it to no, I didn’t, I know better, but like it. So I didn’t do anything. And I asked lori if she had an account. So luckily, you know, like I said, she logged in and everything worked again. But like I couldn’t, I couldn’t open up excel, I couldn’t do any powerpoint stuff, I couldn’t.
[Unknown speaker, 00:34:28]. My outlook, my microsoft outlook account, wouldn’t work like it’s like just all of a sudden, like I updated the spreadsheet after, after I did the gosh waiver flight on the jet, I got that updated that night or the night after. So sometime between then and the other night it was like I don’t know. It’s just really frustrating, I mean. So I think I’m just gonna switch to google sheets or google whatever, because that’s part of my. I’m sorry, who told you to do that?
[Unknown speaker, 00:34:59]. You did when? Oh, it’s been a while. Who you when a while, who you? Okay, it’s been a while ago, but I didn’t. I don’t like google sheets because excel I can. It’s a little bit more customizable, has a few.
[Unknown speaker- 00:35:14]. More options? Yes, yeah, I get it. You use it at work, so you know a lot more exactly. I know how to excel.
[Unknown speaker 00:35:20] than I do anyway I think that’s probably and that’s free with your google storage subscription I think.
[Unknown speaker 00:35:28] or no that’s free with your google gmail address okay well they’re like you don’t even have to have.
[Unknown speaker 00:35:32] a subscription for storage and stuff okay well anyway I do who knows because of the pictures and.
[Unknown speaker 00:35:37] stuff that get uploaded I don’t know yeah we do too yeah it’s crazy it’s at any rate we have too.
[Unknown speaker, 00:35:42]. Much so, I’m thinking about ditching the microsoft stuff and just going to, because I’m not going to buy a microsoft account just so I can update my spreadsheet. If you don’t mind going, really, really.
[Unknown speaker 00:35:55] old school and dave still I got ms dos I’m listening so we’ll talk afterwards okay I can set you up with.
[Unknown speaker 00:36:02] a old one that they don’t track ah I’d be all 1984 well okay yeah we’ll talk about it by the way.
[Unknown speaker 00:36:12] fms super cub was the third aircraft oh there we go he remembered there you are alzheimer’s just cast.
[Unknown speaker, 00:36:20]. We’re all there. It sucks. So what about you, Ron? You said you flew, so we- yeah, we had a meeting last tuesday or the tuesday before, whichever doesn’t matter, because I don’t remember- and I ended up taking three airplanes with me. So I took the fms 8 or the fms f18, the freewing f22, and then piper said she was going to go and then she backed out at the last minute. So I did have the aeroscout with me also. I had a couple incidents. Nothing bad, nothing has crashed. Do tell so I hadn’t. Apparently I hadn’t.
[Unknown speaker, 00:36:55]. Flown the aeroscout on my new transmitter, even though it’s what? A year and a half, two years old now, whatever. So I did a quick bind and I think it’s older than that, the aeroscout. No, no, the transmitter. Oh, okay, right. So anyway, I did a quick bind and stuff and I’m gonna be honest, I don’t know if I bound it right wrong, safe select on off, I don’t remember I’d have to look all that up before I bind it, but apparently I think I did do it with safe or something, and the first time, like I was, I was
[Unknown speaker, 00:37:28]. Playing around with it to make sure I was in the mode I wanted, after I found what switch it was- because of course there’s nothing on there that said, you know, had call outs or anything like that- and I’m like, it’s an aeroscout, I’m fine, they fly great, which they do. However. So, long story short, I taxied out and did a couple things and had it on. The switch that I thought I wanted to be on took off, took off fine, climbed out to 30 feet in the air- maybe 40 wasn’t very high at all- and then all of a sudden it just started to like not dive but descend, like no matter how much up.
[Unknown speaker- 00:38:02]. Elevator I gave it would not start to climb, so I was, like you, son of a gun. So is that what you said? Well, in more colorful language to myself: yeah, we all know I’ve been what your mouth is.
[Unknown speaker, 00:38:16]. But anyway. So I just kind of went off to the side a little bit and then slowly landed it and the tall weeds that grow up next to the field- they’re like three feet tall- went out and got it and then started playing with it again, figured out that maybe that’s not the mode I wanted, so I switched over to a different switch flip and everything was fine. I don’t know how much time I want to spend on that, though I like. I honestly have thought about just resetting that receiver, so that’s just open. I can do whatever you know: set up as3x plus the way you want it set up.
[Unknown speaker, 00:38:52]. I don’t use safe on it, I don’t need any of the extra stuff it has, or right, but piper might want it. I think we’re past that. Oh, honestly, I don’t think she’s going to be too interested. Every now and then she is. But I’m going to be honest with you. If we’re going out to fly something, just for her to learn on, that slow ultra stick is so much better really. Yeah, you can behave itself, so I know.
[Unknown speaker 00:39:16] yeah so I gotta get one of those I can’t believe I don’t have one now me was that no me either.
[Unknown speaker 00:39:23] and I can’t believe you didn’t buy the electro streak because it was on sale too I don’t know if.
[Unknown speaker, 00:39:27]. You saw that, I did see it. Yeah, no, it’s cool. I just this is: yes, I’m gonna buy one of those. I have so many airplanes. Now that I understood, I fully get that. So, anyway, I was doing some.
[Unknown speaker, 00:39:41]. Mate, post-flight maintenance after sunday’s flights and my new radio. I’ve got it set up so that it keeps track of total hours or total time. Yeah, I just have me flipping through it just see how much time I’ve got on different aircraft. Turned out that mctwist and the fms super cub had within seconds of each other and exactly the same amount of flight time- flight time or just lifetime flight, it’s so the timer starts over 15 throttle. So basically, if the throttle’s on, it’s sure it’s.
[Unknown speaker, 00:40:11]. Counting they were within seconds of each other. That’s crazy. Well, I mean Ron and I added up our flights a while back and we were exactly the same. So it’s weird. All stuff right, that means we both.
[Unknown speaker- 00:40:21]. Sucked, and then the ultra slow stick which I flicked quite a bit, but not as much, as those two had twice as much flight time on them, almost to the second. Yeah, because the batteries last a lot. Yeah, I was gonna say flight times are longer. It’s almost exactly the same, within a few seconds of.
[Unknown speaker, 00:40:38]. Being double. Yeah, the other two just maybe it counts weird and just stops at a certain time and you think it’s amazing, but it’s really just a mess. It’s just messing. So, yeah, that’s cool though. Yeah, I just
[Unknown speaker 00:40:51] thought it was pretty interesting that they were so close yep still liking the new radio oh yeah cool I broke.
[Unknown speaker 00:40:56] it you what I broke it what do you mean you broke it I sat on it I saw that.
[Unknown speaker 00:41:04] don’t sit on your free sky radio okay actually don’t sit on any of them yeah doesn’t matter what.
[Unknown speaker- 00:41:10]. Brand it is. It was so. You guys know that I sit on the warm-up bench when I fly. Yeah, and I had the radio sitting on the bench and I went. I went to sit on the bench and I went to reach behind me and well, the radio wasn’t as far back as I thought it was when I sat on the bench and it shoved the handle slash 900 megahertz antenna into the upright. Oh, I thought you’re gonna say something. But yeah, well, I wouldn’t notice, I’m dead in it. And anyway, did it do any damage? It did, it broke.
[Unknown speaker, 00:41:40]. The handle, oh, 900 megahertz. It broke. It flush with the radio. Case time for new radio. So sunday- that’s the reason I was screwing around with the radio. Sunday was messing with that. I took it apart and then epoxied the handle back together. Yeah, but that’s the handle. Yeah, I don’t really carry it by the handle that much because I’ve got that module on the back and it gets in the way, so I’m more. The antenna is inside that handle. The 900 megahertz antenna is inside that handle. Did it? Did it? The wiring is perfectly fine. There’s no. Okay, I did have to disconnect the antenna leads.
[Unknown speaker, 00:42:15]. From the main board. They’ve got those little snap yeah connectors. I put some goo on top of them to help hold them in place because they had goo in it from the factory. But that does worry me a little bit that I’ve done that. Yeah, but have you range checked it? Since I checked the 900 megahertz and the telemetry says it’s fine, but I haven’t, like, taken it out in the yard and checked it. Quite frankly, I find very little with the 900 megahertz twin. At this point I’ve only got a couple receivers that do that. Oh okay, so for the most part I’m still flying spectrum receivers with this.
[Unknown speaker, 00:42:48]. Transmitter which is strictly 2.4, So it couldn’t care less. Yeah, but yeah, don’t sit on your, and I think the antennas are relatively inexpensive so I’m going to order another one. Cool, yeah, so don’t sit on your radio. I couldn’t believe I did that. I heard, I heard snap.
[Unknown speaker 00:43:06] and it’s like oh but I thought it was the sticks snapping back because you know it’s that on them.
[Unknown speaker, 00:43:11]. They make a sound. Yeah, and I was putting it way back into the case and I noticed that the handle was a little wonky. Yeah, so dang it. Yeah, dang it, the new radio. You got the first scratch.
[Unknown speaker, 00:43:22]. It’s over with. Well now, yeah, now you, just now, you can just treat it like your old radio. Yeah, just toss it in the right way around. You know, just can’t have anything. Nice, I’m still not quite there with my 14, which I’m pretty proud of myself. Actually, I’m there with mine. Oh, are you? Yeah, it’s a tool, I get that, but mine still looks pristine. It didn’t come apart. Really nice, very easy to take apart, easy to work on. Well, that’s good. Yeah, four screws. The back plate was off. So nice, cool, reminiscent of
[Unknown speaker 00:43:50] old radios yes cool what else you got well so then my other oopsie maybe do tell incident whatever so.
[Unknown speaker, 00:44:00]. I, so you crashed it, kind of crashed the air scout. I rough landed. There was no damage, it literally. I didn’t even put a new battery in or anything. I just set it on the runway and took off again. So it wasn’t anything. Okay, what’d you crash next? I didn’t crash anything either. So let’s get no crashes. There was no. There might have been unintended landings. How’s that? Okay, sure, with no harm, no foul. So anyway, I was going back and forth between the f18 and the f22. It’s the same battery for both of them. I had both my chargers out. I had the four cells on one, the three cells on the other for the.
[Unknown speaker, 00:44:32]. Aeroscout and literally I just, like I said, just going back and forth on things. I don’t know how I did it, but so I flew the f18, flew it around. I usually get about three minutes on a flight and then when I land it’s usually 25 to 30 percent, so that’s where I like to keep batteries.
[Unknown speaker, 00:44:54]. One of the flights I flew very slow, just piddled around in the air and stuff still did my three minutes. And, out of curiosity, when I landed I was like what am I at? Now? It was at 45 so I was like, well, that’s not bad at all, set it down, you know whatever, grabbed another battery, flew something or went back to the f22, came back to the f18, threw battery in and flew it again, got to my three minute mark and I was like I haven’t been flying very fast, very you know. I was even lower throttle this time, just putting around, and I was like: so three minutes is fine, I don’t have to worry about.
[Unknown speaker- 00:45:30]. Landing right, yet got about three and a half minutes in and then started to come around my last pass and you know turning the final and stuff. I know where this is going, you sure do, and so I was like, well, I don’t, I don’t hear the motor at all.
[Unknown speaker, 00:45:47]. I was like trying to, you know, go to idle and then throttle back up and stuff. Oh boy, I don’t hear anything. So I have control, so that’s fine. So I turned and made my final and then I landed literally 300 feet down the runway, more so than I planned on. I was like what, what happened? Like, did I lose signal? Did I whatever? It didn’t even occur to me because I knew I was not flying very high throttle and didn’t think anything about the battery being dead. So apparently you know where I’m going. Put the same battery in without charging it. Yep, so I can get like six minutes, six plus, yeah, on the flight. On that, if I.
[Unknown speaker, 00:46:23]. Don’t do anything right. The only time on that second flight I was at full throttle was just for the takeoff. Yeah, but yeah, so I was very lucky in the way the timing stuff worked out. Yeah, that’s a good thing. You didn’t have to go around. So, yeah, I would have been good hurt. Yeah, I did put on the charger and it was at zero percent, of course. So I mean, the low voltage works at low, low voltage, but anyway, it charged back up. It didn’t have any issues. It’s, you know, it’s, it’s fine, but I
[Unknown speaker, 00:46:55]. Don’t know how I did that. Like usually when I take a battery out of the airplane because I have four ports of charging, yes, I threw it right on the charger, so everything that is sitting out is fully charged. So I think maybe what I’ll try and start doing is just work from left to right, like, oh, anytime I undo a battery, it goes on the left side of the charger. Anything that comes off the charger on the right hand side is charged. Yeah, maybe I don’t know. Yep, what do you guys do? Rubber bands? So when I
[Unknown speaker, 00:47:27]. Throw them on the charger. I throw a rubber band on the battery. I have to take rubber band off to put it in the aircraft. So when it comes out of the aircraft it gets set off to the side with no rubber band on.
[Unknown speaker, 00:47:36]. That’s a good system. That is not bad at all. I try to not take a lot of batteries for one particular airplane, if that makes sense, especially with these new spectrum chargers. They charge so fast with the spectrum batteries that usually multiple batteries aren’t necessary. So if I’ve got one battery for, for example, the turbo timber, I’ll pull it out of the airplane, put it on the charger and then I don’t have another battery. But if I do have two batteries when I pull it off the charger
[Unknown speaker, 00:48:09]. I set it on top of my battery box, the little case I bring the batteries in that way I know that it’s charged, but it’s not foolproof, because sometimes I forget to put them back on the charger when I pull them off, and so I’ve run into the same thing. So I just check them. I’ve got that little checker thing. Oh, do you see, I never use that. I check them every time, I think checking that one battery, because I
[Unknown speaker 00:48:30] wanted to see where it was after a easy flight was probably the first time I had that thing out.
[Unknown speaker 00:48:35] to check a battery in months I’ve just gotten in the habit of checking them and I did the same thing.
[Unknown speaker 00:48:41] just it’s throw them on there real quick unless I pull them directly off the charger right I check.
[Unknown speaker, 00:48:46]. I check them right. Yep, same well, and usually I pull directly off the charger to fly. But like I, I did have some extra batteries that I was trying to kit charge and all that kind of stuff and just in the in the shuffle, yep, somehow, somehow I got. I missed it. Yeah, so that’s what I do, I just check them and I guess that’s that’s the thing you know. Say what you will, but with horizons, bnf airplanes, with all the telemetry and stuff they have built in, that I do like the fact that it will tell you if the
[Unknown speaker 00:49:16] battery is not charged right it gets annoying like if you know it is charged but it’s not a bad.
[Unknown speaker 00:49:21] little but also it won’t give you the warning like if you’re at 60 percent either yeah well.
[Unknown speaker, 00:49:27]. Oh, will it. Yeah, I think it’s got to be like 90 or above or 80 or something. You didn’t get the warning. I don’t, it wasn’t. Oh, it was not, it was the fms. Yeah, it was just. Yeah, it wasn’t anything smart or any telemetry built into it. I guess the receiver. So, because I’ve had that on other airplanes, where you plug it in and battery’s not charged for flying. Oh, okay, yep, so anywho, that was my story.
[Unknown speaker, 00:49:51]. Well, I’m glad. I’m glad everything turned out okay. Like I said, no harm, no foul, no crash, no damage, no breakies. Yeah, no damage. No, we’re good. Nothing you had to repair. So it’s, all in all, a good day of flying.
[Unknown speaker, 00:50:03]. And everything flew again after it, perfect. But I was surprised actually being able to go back and forth and actually fly and get used to the f-22 and the f-18 at the differences in them. Like, the f-22 very slow compared to the f-18, the, and the more you fly them, the more you’ll you’ll notice those differences. Yeah, but I can tell you one thing that I absolutely hate. I don’t want to say hate because it’s negative. One thing: I missed rudder, oh so much. There was a crosswind and it was every time I was.
[Unknown speaker, 00:50:38]. Landing. It was still kind of coming. I mean it wasn’t cross badly, but it was enough to where I was at an angle in the grass, yeah, and that annoyed me. Yep, because there’s just no way, really. Yeah.
[Unknown speaker 00:50:49] using that left stick you’ll use it whether it’s there or not exactly I was I’m like why is it not.
[Unknown speaker, 00:50:54]. Oh, that’s why there are none. Yeah, so I could see like, honestly, in f-22, especially going up to like 70 millimeter, that has rudders, that has retractable gear- yep, I know it probably won’t fly as well because of the weight difference, but I think it would be more fun. It’ll still be fun. Yeah, not that you’ll have any less fun, right? Did you see, by the way, that we’re repairing the runway at eli? I did, yeah, I can’t.
[Unknown speaker, 00:51:21]. Wait, repairing, not replacing, right, right, but still. But it’ll be, it’ll be better. Yeah, so all the big bumps are going to be gone, all the, which is good, because you know the big, the big event we got coming up. You know that’ll be, that’ll be pretty important, yep, cool. Is it done yet? Nice, well, I thought. I thought. I thought the club officers said they would send an email when it was finished, but I haven’t seen the email. So, yeah, we failed on that one. Okay, but if it’s done, that’s cool. Yeah, can’t wait to see it.
[Unknown speaker 00:51:48] me too this weekend I will see it mm-hmm anything else we good that’s all I got dave we’re good we’ll.
[Unknown speaker, 00:51:55]. Should have a nice report next time. Yeah, cool, hope to see. Hope to see some folks tomorrow. I’m really excited. Well, you’ll see me. Nice see. Is that what you meant? Yeah, that’s what I meant. Cool, I’m excited to see you guys tomorrow. Oh, you’re everybody, not just me. Well, everybody, sure, okay.
[Unknown speaker 00:52:12] well thanks everybody for listening until next time I’m Ron I’m Tom and I’m dave good night.
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