You'd need a shower after that flight. I remember sweating like crazy during the summer lessons. It looks good. How many hours on it?
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You'd need a shower after that flight. I remember sweating like crazy during the summer lessons. It looks good. How many hours on it?
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Anyone going that can deal with an overloaded room or suite ( to save $$$$) needs to get with me- I will attempt to coordinate and reserve some extra suites on the first floor( near the public restroom and pool & conference room. DO that now-
DO NOT count on getting a rollaway bed unless you have already reserved one- i prefer an Airbed and can bring a few extra for those ONLY who cannot bring their own.
all needed bedding is at the front desk-
Its much later ten you may think--
who needs sleep?? ha ha
still 'possibly' room for ONE more in carpool leaving DFW- hauling enclosed trailer room for SOME gear-
if you are flying its best to arrange the flight times/days in order to split cost of rent cars-there is NO airport REALLY close to SELEM- a car is NOT totally needed while you are at the event.
my email is at yahoo or netzero
I will help but you need to do your part too.
hakzaw1
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Thank you for the compliments. I put a lot of work into the interior. I figure that is what I'm going to see the most.Originally Posted by DrEvil
Yea it can get hot, but once you're moving and get up to altitude it gets nice and cool. On my flight to Atlanta last year I remember having to turn on the heat for a little while at 5500 ft. It's amazing how much the temperature drops as you climb.
Right now she has 800 hrs SMOH (Since Major Over Haul). An engine rebuild is recommended at 1800. I will sell it long before that though.
BTW you may have noticed that that first pic of the exterior is from airliners.net. For some reason my wife decided to google the tail number and found that pic. I had no idea someone took it and posted it. I guess they just likes Cessna 150's. He had several others posted too. At first I was freaked out about it, but I don't think there is any harm in it.
Chris
How do you know there is a pilot in the room? Wait a second he'll tell you.
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Open question to any PL members from Texas who will be driving to SELEM and taking Interstate 10 through Louisiana (and thus traveling right past New Orleans):
Would you be willing to stop in New Orleans to meet with Brooks (User KGB here on PL) to pick up some door prizes? He can't make it to SELEM, but he'd like to donate some stuff to the event. I figure anyone coming from Houston or San Antonio will be on this path...
If not, it's not a huge issue. We can always mail the stuff. But if someone was already planning to drive right past, that would be convenient too. (Len, I know you're taking I-20, which is way too far north, so don't worry about it. No sense going that far out of your way, because the shipping will be cheaper than the extra cost of your fuel.)
Chris:
Apart from the real planes and the RC planes you fly, I was wondering if you've ever flown a true collective-pitch (6-channel) RC helicopter? I just picked up a cheap 4-channel fixed-pitch unit, and I've been having a blast with it. Will probably bring it to SELEM so I can fly it around in the auditorium a bit. But I'm wondering if it's worth it to make the leap to collective pitch or not...
Adam
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Adam,
Yes currently own 4 collective pitch helis. One if them is a Chinook (still building it) that each rotor is 3 ft across.
The big advantage of collective pitch is the ability to do aerobatics, as a result they are far less stable and much more maneuverable aka harder to fly.
Is the fixed pitch heli you bought like the one I brought to SELEM a few years ago? In other words a counter rotating dual rotor design (one rotor above the other)? If so, they don't fliy anything like a collective pitch heli. They are more of a hovering machine that you can coax to move in certain directions. Great for beginners but don't really teach you how to fly a helicopter. Many people buy these, master them, then step up to a collective pitch and crash getting frustrated buying tons of replacement parts and give up. I'm not saying that you can't do it, I just want you to know what your buying and what to expect. They are tricky machines.
Unless you have a simulator to practice on or have someone to teach you I would not recommend jumping into collective pitch. A simulator will teach you everything you need to know and crash as many times as you want without costing more. There are even free simulators out there, just make sure if you go that route you get a controller to plug into the computer. Without it you won't learn a thing.
I will be bringing my simulator with me to SELEM if you want to try a collective pitch heli before you buy anything. I'm also going to bring at least one of my new obsessions.
Quadcopters!
The big one is fully autonomous and has a GoPro mounted on it. Don't know that I will bring it, but definitely one of the smaller ones.
Chris
Wow! That's going to be a monster when it's done!
Yeah, but I'm thinking that the advantages afforded by modern gyroscopes should make that less of an issue than it was 30 years ago when I used to fly RC planes (and RC Heli's were $1500 and up).The big advantage of collective pitch is the ability to do aerobatics, as a result they are far less stable and much more maneuverable aka harder to fly.
No, it's not a co-ax. It's got a single main rotor and a true tail rotor. Only a single axis gyro though, so all it does is keep the tail steady.Is the fixed pitch heli you bought like the one I brought to SELEM a few years ago? In other words a counter rotating dual rotor design
Actually, it doesn't do that really well if I have it on high-rate control, because the change in torque is so sudden that the tail rotor sometimes can't keep up. But I understand that's a common problem with fixed-pitch heli's... The tail rotor is a separate motor on mine, and that little bitch gets hot as hell trying to stay ahead of the torque. I'm sure it's going to fail long before the main motor does...
But yeah, this thing needs to be flown all the time. Take your hands off the sticks and it will crash. It doesn't even hover very well. I've got the trim maxed out, and it still wants to drift back and roll to the right. (It was cheap, so I suppose that's to be expected.) Anyway, I'm always compensating on the cyclic to keep it in hover. That's why I'm thinking that a collective pitch can't be all that much more difficult, especially since many of the CP heli's have 6-axis gyros built in...
Ok, that sounds like a good idea. I'll take you up on that.I will be bringing my simulator with me to SELEM if you want to try a collective pitch heli before you buy anything.
Cool! Were you at FLEM that time that Frank's buddy brought his quadcopter? He lost the RF link from his I-Pad to the 'copter, and it crashed in the river behind the venue! We had to borrow a canoe to fetch it out of the swamp.I'm also going to bring at least one of my new obsessions.
Quadcopters!
But yeah, those things are pretty cool, though they're much easier to fly... Will be fun to see one flying in the auditorium at SELEM!
Adam
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Adam,
Wow I didn't realize you were flying a main rotor-tail rotor fixed pitch. That is a completely different class of heli, I didn't know they still made those. In that case you are ready to step up to a collective pitch machine.
Yes with the new 6 axis gyros all helicopters are much easier to fly. A collective pitch will seem easy compared to what you are flying now. I learned on a nitro powered fixed pitch machine. I still have it for nostalgic reasons.
I was at FLEM when you guys had to go quadcopter fishing. I felt really bad for him.
Cool! Thanks for the encouragement. I've been looking at some of the smaller ones (need to be able to fly inside as well as outside), and they're really not that expensive at all. I was mostly worried that the difference in flight characteristics wouldn't be worth the extra money. (I'm a very casual RC hobbyist; I don't fly every week or anything like that.)
Ok, that's good to know. I had a feeling that with a decent gyro it would be pretty simple to fly, but I wanted confirmation from someone with more experience before I wasted any money.Yes with the new 6 axis gyros all helicopters are much easier to fly. A collective pitch will seem easy compared to what you are flying now.
Sweet! How big was that heli?I learned on a nitro powered fixed pitch machine. I still have it for nostalgic reasons.
Yeah, after all the money he spent, I'm sure it was a real bummer for him. Though according to Frank they replaced it at no cost to him, and the new one worked fine...I was at FLEM when you guys had to go quadcopter fishing. I felt really bad for him.
Adam
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ImageLight and I sat and previewed 40 odd shows last night in preparation for SELEM. We're going through the batch of about 100 Showeditor shows I recently aquired and breaking them down into ClubSELEM or Auditorium (or both in some cases) and rating them with a star system. It was interesting. Since many of these shows were made by people in Europe, it's a very ecclectic mix of things. A few clunkers but on the whole, some excellent shows. I'm still working on getting more and getting them tested.
We haven't started testing/rating the Moncha, Fiesta, Phoenix Pro, etc. stuff yet but, suffice to say, there should be a ton of new material that not many people have seen.I just wish in some cases I had more DAC's to run the content as intended when people have programmed for several projectors. There is an On Stranger Tides show designed for like 12 projectors but, I sure as hell am not buying 12 $900 DAC's to see it! No... really... I'm not!
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cool!
i'm planning on bringing 45-60 minutes of my own content.
ImageLight and I sat and previewed 40 odd shows last night in preparation for SELEM. We're going through the batch of about 100 Showeditor shows I recently aquired and breaking them down into ClubSELEM or Auditorium (or both in some cases) and rating them with a star system. It was interesting. Since many of these shows were made by people in Europe, it's a very ecclectic mix of things. A few clunkers but on the whole, some excellent shows. I'm still working on getting more and getting them tested.
We haven't started testing/rating the Moncha, Fiesta, Phoenix Pro, etc. stuff yet but, suffice to say, there should be a ton of new material that not many people have seen.
suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
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