Sunday Flyer!

Weather has been pretty miserable here in the ACT for the last week. Winter, such as we have it, has arrived with the usual mixture of cold, but not cold enough to snow, temperature, and the winds have been fairly up. Obviously, complaints about lack of suitability of RC flying weather pale compared to what has been happening around the Hunter River, but there you go.

Managed to get a little bit of flying this morning although the breeze was still up around 15-20km/hr. Three planes were serviceable - TigerMoth, Elebee and Tucano. I only flew the elebee. The Tigermoth can't handle that sort of weather, and the Tucano proved to be a bit skittish in that sort of weather last time I tried her in a stiff breeze. Given I would be remaidening her (with a replacement engine) I decided to give her a miss.

Still haven't gotten the MPXT back into a flyable state yet. Getting the Eflite 480 to fit the stock engine mount is proving a bit of a challenge. Most of the problem comes from trying to use the wrong motor for the job (cause I wanted more juice). If I'd just locktited the x mount to the motor she would still be flying just fine.

With respect to the MPXT don't get taken in by her looks. She is not that aerobatic. She can do gentle stuff, but her control surfaces just aren't big enough for extreme manuveurs. That being said, a good gentle flyer.

Anyway, that's about all for the moment. Hopefully better weather and more planes next week.