I have fallen hard back into RC soaring and flying (I could have a knock-out computer rig for what I have spent on RC in the past 9 months). As to soaring, I have recently identified a delimma that is stifleing and suffocating my progress. The joy of soaring is to harness nature and use natural forces to lift your $$$aircraft$$$ to the limits of sight. I can do this occassionally with my foamy Multiplex sailplanes. Radio telemetry has informed me that I have been at 1,000 feet and still climbing, whereupon I am desparate to get the aircraft back down to where I can reliably see it. I have lost sight of one for more than five seconds,...and that is a very long five seconds. I recently attended an RC soaring meet where the average cost of aircraft was probably $1,500! The feeling of panic and desparation I had at losing sight of a $300 dollar glider almost choked me, I cannot imagine what losing sight of a $2,000 sailplane would do to me, if only for a moment. But I find myself shopping the internet lusting over these hi-tech carbon fiber spaceships. They just look soooo cool.
So I just bought a used and beat-up Multiplex Fun Cub and am tempting fate by flying tight figure 8's three feet off the ground.
