Hello From Jacksonville FL

[rcb1rd]

Good Day all!

I am new to RC flying but many years in Air Sea Rescue. I have flown solo a Cessna 152 but due to retirement (and other factors) real piloting may not every happen again. The "Bug" hits every so often and it needs to be scratched. My interests and goals are to first fly safely. The Super Cub looks like the best and most economical bet. Next I want to equip a model aircraft with FPV- the Cub again looks like the platform to start with. The Keychain video camera seems to the best onboard camera system for our scale.

I have been using the FMS simulator and amazed how much my real life flying experiences hurt my RC skills.

My handle is based on what we would say approaching a LZ when Birds came to near the helicopter. Of course the RC is radio control and RD separated indicates I like to experiment (Research and Development) RC B1-RD but here you can call me John.

Looking forward to pick at your brains and experiences.
John

[charliebrown]

Welcome aboard!

[ginginho]

Hello and welcome John. It's good to hear (see) you say your first goal is to fly safely, I'm not sure all your countrymen list this as a priority, it has to be here in the UK.
Have fun with the SC, you'll be surprised how many other things you will learn, apart from the actual flying part.
Any questions, fire away!

[killioughtta]

Welcome, from Miami!

[Britpilot]

I thought with over 6000 hours flying full sized aeroplanes that it would help me to fly RC aircraft. Nope, it does not help at all. Flying the aircraft from outside has no similarity to flying an aircraft while sitting in it! About the only thing that flying full sized aeroplanes helps you with in flying RC aircraft is understanding the aerodynamics and the way that aeroplanes fly and why etc. God bless the simulator programs without them my cub would have been a big bag of foam packing material by now!

[parrothead]

Welcome John
Be warned, as of yet there is not an antidote for the SC. Great plane, you'll love it.

[rcb1rd]

Hello All,
I'd like to share some FMS artwork. Not quite finished but flys very nicely. This is screen capture of a HZ_supercub_LP by by Gary Gunnerson redone in CG colors, the flight model is unmodified .

Allthough the coloring a Super Cub in CG Colors is not original I think this is the first FMS version.

John

Attachments:

[killioughtta]

Hey! That's NICE, man! I redid my own Super Cub in FMS a while back:
supercubclub.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=sccgeneral&thread=2306&page=1

[rcb1rd]

I have updated the colors to a closer representation of Internal Orange and not Cherry red. I also Sent an email the to Gary Gunnerson so I could share the art work on his flight model.

To watch out for other traffic = "Keep your head on a swivel"

j

Attachments:

[rcb1rd]

Today I bought the Mini Super Cub. Thought I’d be better to trash a less expensive model first.
Today’s flight log, stay away from trees---twice.
Once that was accomplished, I stood in an open field at the park.
First successful takeoff was from the grass, the rest of the flights I tossed the plane with my right hand.
Great fun, wind exceeded the safe limit but what the heck. The wind was so strong I had the little plane in a hover! Cool!
Discovered I broke loose the motor mount- no big deal part of the fun. Some dings and minor scratches and a whole lot dirty.
Took the plane home and cleaned it up and started practicing on the FMS with wind set to 8 m/s. Not sure the speed in MPH or Knots.
Wow must of got 50 flights out the stock battery- less than 20 seconds each…. Oh well.
Besides embarrassing myself while trying to get the plane out of the tree, this was a big kick. A 50 year old playing at the park with a model airplane must have been a sight. Too bad I couldn’t find my video camera.

Side note- ordered a couple of those keychain cameras and have a 1.2Ghz wireless camera. Looking forward to playing with those!!

Ok, Closing the flight log- time to check out the 19th hole,
John

[jbess]

8m/s is just under 18 mph. That's a good amount of wind for a mini!

[rcb1rd]

18MPH was in the flight sim, but reality seemed to handle very similar. Playing with the FMS I also got the flight model to hover and even fly backwards. If the plane turned slightly to left or right in FMS or reality it quickly started to turn with the wind (No suprise) unless it was near the ground.

Suspect the plastic fire wall broke from the foam fuselage- still need to take the cowling off and inspect it.

john