Revised January 2012

I started flying in March of 2003 with a small electric RTF airplane called an Aerobird. Since then I have become more of a thermal soaring glider pilot than an electric airplane pilot. I fly pure gliders for thermal duration, DLG, slope and aerotow. These days the electrics that I fly tend to be e-gliders. I have about 26 gliders and planes with about 10 flyable at any given time.

Most of my flying is at our club field. I am former President and current member of the Long Island Silent Flyers. www.lisf.org. We have a great club focused on thermal duration soaring and small electric airplanes.

I try to get to the field one day each weekend all year round. That is when I am not flying glider competition with the Eastern Soaring League. www.flyesl.com I am former President of the League and current Newsletter Editor. I travel along the East coast of the USA for the ESL contests.

My longest TD glider flight is just under 90 minutes. My longest slope flight was about 2 hours. After that the flights become boring and I land. With slope, it can be the cold that gets me as slope soaring where I live on Long Island, NY, is mostly a winter time activity. At 20 degrees and 15 mph winds, it can be chilly.

I stared competing in thermal duration glider contests in our club in 2004 with Spirt 2M RES plane, then a Sagitta 600 then a 3 meter Airtronics Legend. They got me into a great sport and now I am totally hooked.

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These are threads that I started or that have a major contribution that you might find helpful.


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Six Keys to Success
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=355208
Starting at post 10
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_4355149/tm.htm
http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18
http://www.rchangout.com/forums/begi...highlight=keys
Teaching Someone To Fly - Tools and Techniques
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=499281
http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5767
Getting Started with a Flight Simulator
http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3893
Have you ever lost an Airplane?
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108325
Why would anyone want to join a club?
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=251598
http://www.rchangout.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6400
http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=232
Getting planes out of trees
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167396
http://www.rchangout.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5228
Looking for Books/reverence for basic building
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152967
Throwing up will make you sick - read from the first post
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_32...tm.htm#3708346
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=405291
You can lean to fly on your own, but...
http://www.rchangout.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7549
Plane Locators
http://www.rchangout.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4682
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