Phil's news letter 21/10/2013

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Weather links BBC.UK weather   Aston Down weather  XCweather   Rain forecast  Weatherspark.


The Sky Taranis TX

My tyrannical Taranis-soreass-rex was a bit of handful at first, well what would you expect from the god of thunder.
With some help from a few people and some time on the forums I am training it to do what I want.
Mike Shellim pointed out a common route to follow.

Inputs are put into a high used channel, where additions, subtraction, multiplications, and curves used can be carried out.
There is a hierarchy, multiply multiplies its mixer by those above and replace replaces the mixer lines above itself 
The lower channels that are used for the servo values can get some of their value from the high channels

have a look at this V tail mix

channel

input

10 elevator stick
11 rudder stick
2 channel 10
2 minus channel 11
4 channel 10
4 channel 11

 Channel 2 & 4 are the V tail halves 

If you add brake elevator compensation,  this would be subtracted  from channel 10, also trims for flaps, launch and reflex would go to channel 10
Aileron to rudder mix would require the aileron stick to be used as input added to channel 11

 

 Esoaring

League scores

  

One more comp to go  in the Esoaring league

Next event

OCTOBER

BMFA eSoaring Height Limited League event at Ashurst, West Sussex on Sunday 27th October 2013 - Upper Northover Farm, Ashurst, West Sussex, BN44 3AL


News  

 

 SCSA

Auction 20th November


Gloucester model flying club

more at http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/blog/blog13/sept13/sept13.htm 

Indoor flying Bentham country club 6.00 - 8.00PM every Saturday, Insurance need, GMFC membership is not required 

6 to 8 pm. Slots for F/W, small helis Heli and Micro Models. Bentham Country Club, Bentham Nr Cheltenham, GL3 4UD. Contact Mike Frith on 07866 366657or secretary@glos-mfc.co.uk or see www.glos-mfc.co.uk 

Bar and snacks available 

Some Photos from Saturday's indoor session, click for larger images

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 Bird watch
Gulls in our field

Not sure what they are, could be common gulls, have a look at http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/families/gulls.aspx 
they are not the big Herring Gulls that steal your chips at the seaside

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Malvern Soaring Association

Indoor flying has started 
Calendar of events  http://www.malvernsoaringassociation.co.uk/cal13.html

Fish Meadow & playing  updated  15/10/2013 http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/malvern/photos.htm 

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Slope soaring

Monday

Tuesday  

I went to Upton on Severn, no breeze and light lift

Wednesday

Thursday  

Friday   

Saturday

Haresfield

A couple of good flights, till rain stopped play. My Tipsy flew well until a horn broke, then the Quark on the main slope. The wind had a fair bit of west in it, so flying straight out the model was pushed strongly to the left. On the ridge it felt as if the wind was straight so I suspected something wrong with the Quark. 

Guy had the same problem with his Gulp and then Andy turned up and the wind dropped a bit, but still was slightly off to the west. Then the rain came, closely followed by Phil.

Tony


.Sunday  

 A good breeze on Haresfield, both slopes were used

Latest photos at http://www.ebley.talktalk.net/photos2/?C=M;O=D 


 

For Sale

offers 

The kit has been in the house since 1986 when I purchased it in Cincinnati.  My son and I did some assembly on the tail-plane but otherwise it is all untouched.  One or two balsa parts have been cracked in storage.
 
Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, Tetbury, GL8 8YP, Tel. 01453 860194

 


Park zone spitfire mk9. Raptor 30 bind 'n' fly. AR6200 6 CHANNEL SPEKTRUM, AR7000 7 CHANNEL, Black magic kit,, Blade SR Huey RTF, Thunder Tiger Field Box, Scroll Saw, Blenderm tape, Spektrum DX7JP, Stinson, FRsky plug in 2.4gig Futaba/Hitec conversion module,


For sale Links

.Flyquiet.flyquiet.co.uk/smf/index.php?board=10.0  

http://www.bmfaclassifieds.co.uk/   Gliders

Glos-mfc.co.uk/forsale/for-sale.htm

eSoaring.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=9be5e7aa62c38e0362754ed0a90eb9b0 

Barcs.co.uk/forums/forum/59-for-salewanted/ 


Events

 

Please check these events are on before attending, some are cancelled at short notice

Every Saturday

GMFC indoor flying starts at Bentham country club 6.00 - 8.00PM 

Oct 19          Gloucester MFC Indoor Flying

6 to 8 pm. Slots for F/W, Heli and Micro Models. Bentham Country Club, Bentham Nr Cheltenham, GL3 4UD. Contact Mike Frith on 07866 366657or secretary@glos-mfc.co.uk or see www.glos-mfc.co.uk

Oct 26-27    SAM 1066 Fun Fly and Competitions 02392 550809 or rogerknewman@yahoo.com
27th October Gaydon Static Show Contact for Trade John Rickett 01472 388301 or email jricdh86@aol.com 
Model Display (individual or team) Tony Hooper 01926 641490 or email th.hooper@btinternet.com 

  SAM 1066 Fun Fly and Competitions

Saturday – Combined Open/E36 Electric Power, Tailless, Small Vintage Rubber. Sunday – Comb. Up To 50” Vintage & Classic Glider, 4oz Wakefield, HLG/CLG. Middle Wallop, Nr Andover. Contact Roger Newman on  . Jimmie Allen Mass Launch Contact Roy Tiller on 01202 511309

 

EVENT LISTS


 http://www.barcs.co.uk/event-calendar  

HLG www
.flyquiet.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3706.0

Esoaring Dateswww.
esoaring.net/index.php?page=competition-calendar-2013 

bmfa.org/events/index.html 

http://www.electricsoaring.co.uk/events.html 

http://www.rcmodelworld.com/article.aspx?a=5396 

http://scalesoaring.co.uk/Calendar/Calendar.html 

http://www.largemodelassociation.com/eventcalendar.htm 

http://www.sam35.org/events/events.aspx 

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