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Flight Time

Posted on October 26, 2006October 26, 2006 by Scott

I’m becoming quite good at this radio controlled slope soaring caper. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been getting regular flights of 20 minutes to an hour. The real challenge now is flying in lighter winds when you have to be very careful and not push the glider around and of course landings. Half of my landings are “slow – stall – spin – splat”. The EPP glider sure takes a beating and keeps coming back. I’ve had to do some minor repairs but given the amount of crashes, it is amazingly tough. The forcast for the weekend is fine with northerlies. Perfect.

This is what I’m flying now:

Eraser 60

And this is what I’m building!

Arrow

2 thoughts on “Flight Time”

  1. Ian says:
    October 26, 2006 at 21:25

    I’m really impressed. We always TALKED about it, but we never actually DID it. Great work! Where exactly do you go to fly them? Off the “Centre of New Zealand” hill or ????

    (I did a small amount of editing your entry…just spelling and layout…couldn’t help it!)

  2. Scott says:
    October 27, 2006 at 12:44

    I took a few photos last time I was up, so once I get them off the camera I\’ll show you. The primary slope is over the other side of Brightwater, about 10 minutes away. That hill is at its best in the northerly sea breeze that blows in the summer. If you want to get a plane that you can fly I\’d suggest getting one of these EPP planes and learning to fly.  Its great. Calgary is a hot spot for slope soaring due to the nearly constant wind!  Let me know if you want to know more!

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