Hi there, I’m writing this blog and I’m suffering!! 10hours of flying, 12 flights, 2.5 gallons of petrol, 3000mah of power used on each battery, I’ve consumed about 10 litres of water and I’m so stiff with sun burn it hurts!! I think I’m in heaven! LOL
Today was the most full on flying I’ve ever done, we shared TRCC with Troy, Nick (an intermediate pilot) and an old guy that talked to himself, very funny but you had to be there “make a right turn..ok if you say so!!” all in the one breath! LOL! Nice man though!
We worked on a constant rotation system all day, it worked great, the wind was all over the place throughout the day, so we flew left to right, right to left, crosswind in both directions, all good practise for the shootout! It was really hot today as well, it was in the 100s (40 deg c), the black Tarmac is so hot when your standing out on the flightline! Next week is suppose to be cooler, let’s hope so! But tomorrow is too get even hotter!
About 5pm a whole bunch of club members from TRCC turned up, as well as Bogan and Baldrick (Frazer & Mike) and Bill Hempel, so it got busy! It was good too see the two Invitational pilots practise their knows, 12 of 8’s, 7 of 4’s followed by 1 1/4 neg snaps on a 45 up!! All good stuff for IMAC nuts like me!! At one point I was flying and there were two others guys doing sequences, a bit crazy, but it’s good training for the contest, 2 people fly at once during the comp, so got to get used to it!! Bill was struggling for power, his 3w 170 was hauling his 45lb extra around ok, but in the long uplines with lots of elements he was more or less hovering! Frazer was running in his DA170 powered comp arf 260, this is his freestyle plane but he was doing the sequences anyway as his our design 260 was now in Memphis! As Frazer put it, it’s learning to play the flaming guitar with Elvis!! Hopefully it should be in Tucson tomorrow! He was still flying very well, well at least when they got the tank plumbed up right (a deadstick found that one out) and when they tightened the prop bolts up!! You see these things happen to the worlds best too!
Frazer’s grasp of the sequences is awesome! The next time you go to the field try doing 2 positive snaps from inverted on a horz line! Sounds easy, try it! frazer did it and lost no height, Each time! He broke the line, did the rotation, pitched the nose back down and flew on!! Stunning!! Sorry I got very IMACey there or is that anorakey! LOL impressed the heck out of me!
It’s been a really busy day but learnt a lot! The various fields that we can fly at get busy from tomorrow on, so it’s most likely my last chance for some serious practise, unless we decide to relocate to Phoenix and the famous “moon”, more about that another time!
Matt
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