Windy Day Landings X 4
04-22-2005, 11:05 PM
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Windy Day Landings X 4
Went out for a nice day of flying. Winds gusting 25mph+. All bad thumbs, have no excuses, I should have heeded the advice to not fly. But It was alot of fun. Should be a quick fix, just have to rebuild the landing gear portion of the fuse.
Pretty bad, as soon as I got into a nose down attitude, the plane wnet straight into the ground. I should have been carrying more speed to land but I was enjoying landing with no forward motion. Eventually it bit me.
[link=http://members.shaw.ca/jones741/ucando%20crash.mpg]U-CAN-DO 3D 46 Windy Landings[/link]
Pretty bad, as soon as I got into a nose down attitude, the plane wnet straight into the ground. I should have been carrying more speed to land but I was enjoying landing with no forward motion. Eventually it bit me.
[link=http://members.shaw.ca/jones741/ucando%20crash.mpg]U-CAN-DO 3D 46 Windy Landings[/link]
04-23-2005, 12:56 AM
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RE: Windy Day Landings X 4
It was 30 - 25 MPH windy here yesterday in Islamabad - Pakistan. Flying was enjoyable, Landings were terrible. 2 trainers, one petternship, and on 3d had bad landings. Not much of a loss, but a lot of embarrassment for many expert flyers.
04-23-2005, 12:01 PM
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RE: Windy Day Landings X 4
ORIGINAL: RC-FIEND
I see you are getting the hang of the maneuvers
, I would guess you over powered the plane with a .90 ?
I see you are getting the hang of the maneuvers
, I would guess you over powered the plane with a .90 ?
04-24-2005, 07:16 AM
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RE: Windy Day Landings X 4
25mph is nothing. A couple weeks ago I was flying in gust up to 60mph!
or were you flying a CL airplane that day? 
60 mph gust would make it impossible to fly any RC plane IMO.
04-24-2005, 03:39 PM
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RE: Windy Day Landings X 4
I had some shelter. The plane was a Laser Models Arrow wing. It was handling the wind very well, considering. The sustained wind was 25-30 but it did gust a lot.
04-30-2005, 11:14 PM
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RE: Windy Day Landings X 4
ORIGINAL: woops
25mph is nothing. A couple weeks ago I was flying in gust up to 60mph![:'(]
25mph is nothing. A couple weeks ago I was flying in gust up to 60mph![:'(]
Damn! my gws tiger moth cant even handle a few mph winds. In 60mph winds i would have to land my old trainer at full throttle!
05-01-2005, 05:56 AM
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RE: Windy Day Landings X 4
I flew my GWS tigermoth in 35mph sustained winds.(backwards at full throttle from one end of my yard to the other)
Why would I need a reversible pitch prop?
Why would I need a reversible pitch prop?
05-01-2005, 09:52 AM
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RE: Windy Day Landings X 4
I was at a contest with 47mph gusts. It blew me over a couple of times and I had my caller hold me upright. Try looking at the sky with the wind blowing, it will blow you over. You have no reference to correct how you are leaning when you are about to fall.
