After a four or five year break, since October I prepare my "comeback" 
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In early 2017 I also sold most of my performance planes.
I always thougt about the reason why I had lost the fun after ~40 years of active aeromodelling.
It took time but few month ago, when I accidentally found some photos from the late 1970th to to the late 1980th, I realized that I still like the simple gliders or at least woodies.
Four/five years ago it was no longer fun for me to have a lot of money in the air and always having an implied competition with the guys that have lots of free time to practise and more or less unlimited financial means to buy even better plans.
Flying F3F and F3J for some years was a great time but not the thing I like in my deepest heart.
Since October I am working on my work shop.
It is quite small, but when I have finished all the work, I will have a workbench to build 2m parts, enough space to store my remaining gliders and all the tools and small parts you need for (simple) woody builds and to work with the scrall saw and grinding machine.
My first project will be the original 1980th Dandy from Graupner
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.In early 2017 I also sold most of my performance planes.
I always thougt about the reason why I had lost the fun after ~40 years of active aeromodelling.
It took time but few month ago, when I accidentally found some photos from the late 1970th to to the late 1980th, I realized that I still like the simple gliders or at least woodies.
Four/five years ago it was no longer fun for me to have a lot of money in the air and always having an implied competition with the guys that have lots of free time to practise and more or less unlimited financial means to buy even better plans.
Flying F3F and F3J for some years was a great time but not the thing I like in my deepest heart.
Since October I am working on my work shop.
It is quite small, but when I have finished all the work, I will have a workbench to build 2m parts, enough space to store my remaining gliders and all the tools and small parts you need for (simple) woody builds and to work with the scrall saw and grinding machine.
My first project will be the original 1980th Dandy from Graupner
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Wings from Geier (Robbe) fuse and tail built by my own (Mainz, 1978?) -
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Dandy from Graupner (South Tyrol, 1979?) -
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Dandy from Graupner (Seiser Alm - South Tyrol, 1978?) -
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Dandy from Graupner (Seiser Alm - South Tyrol, 1978?) First slope attempt without knowing the rules (wind from the hills down does not work for sloping ;-)) -
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Dandy from Graupner (Passo Pordoi - South Tyrol, 1979?) -
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Dandy from Graupner (Switzerland, 1982) -
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modified Dandy from Graupner (Langental - South Tyrol, 1986?) -
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Draco 3001 from Carrera, Salto from Wik (Passo Pordoi - South Tyrol, 1986?)
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I really like the Tracer and I do not understand why it is so quiet around the Tracer 
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I already owned 2 Tracers.
Tracer #1 had a bad crash, but after buying a new wing, she is back in air, but pretty heavy and homley meanwhile.
Tracer #2 were sold for a Xperience Pro (which was also sold after one season).
Tracer #3 will be used for thermaling. So I try to do the build as light as possible.
I know there are better TD ships available but overall the Tracer gives me the most satisfaction of all gliders I own/owned, for slope as well as for TD.
Today I ordered a Dynamic (which is the NAN Tracer) from the French NAN distributor http://www.airtech-rc.com/.
?I already owned 2 Tracers.
Tracer #1 had a bad crash, but after buying a new wing, she is back in air, but pretty heavy and homley meanwhile.
Tracer #2 were sold for a Xperience Pro (which was also sold after one season).
Tracer #3 will be used for thermaling. So I try to do the build as light as possible.
I know there are better TD ships available but overall the Tracer gives me the most satisfaction of all gliders I own/owned, for slope as well as for TD.
Today I ordered a Dynamic (which is the NAN Tracer) from the French NAN distributor http://www.airtech-rc.com/.
M60 is a great slope performer and it's my new number one for strange slope locations or challenging air conditions (after I understood how to dial in the c/g correctly ).
But I have two issues:
Ok what to do to solve this?
Pretty simple - split the long rudders and add 2 servos.
).But I have two issues:
- rudder fludder when doing very hard bungee launches
- for my personal taste a bit too nervous on elevator (max throw up is 3mm which is already too much!)
Ok what to do to solve this?
Pretty simple - split the long rudders and add 2 servos.
A little miracle has happened.
Some days ago my son asked me to begin the build of his EasyStar (which I bought a year or two ago for him).
So all other current build activities (Alto carbon, Elixir) are postponed as long as he wants to proceed with the build.
Some days ago my son asked me to begin the build of his EasyStar
(which I bought a year or two ago for him).So all other current build activities (Alto carbon, Elixir) are postponed as long as he wants to proceed with the build.
Reason for having only very little time for my main hobby R/C gliders ...
Most of the time they have no interest in gliders or joining me at the airfield but I also enjoy every common non-R/C second with both as you never know how they will evolve in the future...
...Most of the time they have no interest in gliders or joining me at the airfield but I also enjoy every common non-R/C second with both as you never know how they will evolve in the future...
Spent really great time with my kids at the airfield yesterday!
We used the quite calm time before a storm.
After a long time (9 or 10 months) not interested in Dad's passion, my son made extreme progress flying his EPP Felix.
All flights were "solo" flights with lot of loopings close to the ground and some very promising hoover attempts (with a rudder/elevator only electric glider?! - he saw hoovering at an club internal indoor event 5 months ago).
His little sister wanted to pilot the plane as well, but last flight before pilot change ended with a quite tough "landing" ;-) where EPP Felix lost inter alia his nose including motor and battery.
This was one of the rare moments that made me happy to the core and where I can forget all the bullsh?? around me...
Repair already started to support their current interest in RC activities!!! Everything else that can be postponed has to wait until repair is finished...
We used the quite calm time before a storm.
After a long time (9 or 10 months) not interested in Dad's passion, my son made extreme progress flying his EPP Felix.
All flights were "solo" flights with lot of loopings close to the ground and some very promising hoover attempts (with a rudder/elevator only electric glider?! - he saw hoovering at an club internal indoor event 5 months ago).
His little sister wanted to pilot the plane as well, but last flight before pilot change ended with a quite tough "landing" ;-) where EPP Felix lost inter alia his nose including motor and battery.
This was one of the rare moments that made me happy to the core
and where I can forget all the bullsh?? around me...Repair already started to support their current interest in RC activities!!! Everything else that can be postponed has to wait until repair is finished...
