Photos from the event.

Whats the electronics box, pic #10?

That's the timing electronics that run the whole contest automatically. Mickey built it and programmed it, pretty amazing stuff.

Super cool pics Jason! Thanks for posting.

I live in Central Florida and I fly sailplanes. I have never heard of San Felasco. Where, oh where, is San Felasco? This is a recurring pet peeve of mine. Postings made of some event that does not state where it was held, other than something vague, like central Florida.

Near Alachua...

The main thread has all the details. Map info is in the first post.

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...Feb-15-17-2019

if only there were a way to search for areas you're not familiar with ....

Originally Posted by Wave Glider

if only there were a way to search for areas you're not familiar with ....

Dude, you just had a possible new flying recruit and you respond that way? No wonder we have trouble getting people to participate in contest flying.

Originally Posted by jwfinn

Dude, you just had a possible new flying recruit and you respond that way? No wonder we have trouble getting people to participate in contest flying.

Totally a light-hearted reply, get off the soapbox and chill bro. The F3K community is one of the nicest, most helpful, and friendliest bunch of people I have ever dealt with, and if you read any of the comments from people who attend an event, you will see all echoing the same statement There have been many discussions as to why participation and contests have dwindled recently, the community has never been one of them. At any rate, I've lived in Virginia all of my life and I still hear of places in the state every other week I've never heard of. Pretty easy to figure out where they are nowadays

Originally Posted by Wave Glider

Totally a light-hearted reply, get off the soapbox and chill bro. The F3K community is one of the nicest, most helpful, and friendliest bunch of people I have ever dealt with, and if you read any of the comments from people who attend an event, you will see all echoing the same statement There have been many discussions as to why participation and contests have dwindled recently, the community has never been one of them. At any rate, I've lived in Virginia all of my life and I still hear of places in the state every other week I've never heard of. Pretty easy to figure out where they are nowadays

^^^^^this is ALL true. Especially the “chill bro” part.

Originally Posted by jwfinn

Dude, you just had a possible new flying recruit and you respond that way? No wonder we have trouble getting people to participate in contest flying.

Seeing as waveglider has converted myself and two other VA locals to F3K in the last year I don’t think he has anything to do with affecting attendance other than maybe making it go up.

I agree with many of the points above on friendliness and welcoming . . . on the field.

In the forums, that's always a mixed bag, but I believe Finn's point was "Google is your Friend" is a pretty antisocial answer. Common, sure, but antisocial.

In this case, a new guy shows up effectively asking for more info about an article from a poorly publicized event (if you're not in F3K, why would you look at the "Hand Launched" section for a random thread?). Google would not have answered what he wanted to know. It would have pointed to a state park web page that talked about trails, trees and horses, and if it mentions ANYTHING about RC it's that you CAN'T.

Wayne pointed to relevant info. Kudos. Kyle . . . pointed to snark, and useless snark at that. Entertaining, for the rest of us, sure, but back to the point, antisocial.

Is this why "have trouble getting people to participate in contest flying"? no . . . but it might go some length to edbu1 thinking he might just stay back in ORL next February. Kyle, keep encouraging people to fly F3K . . . but this isn't how. Finn, chill -- no need blowing this bigger than it is.

Originally Posted by edbu1

I live in Central Florida and I fly sailplanes. I have never heard of San Felasco. Where, oh where, is San Felasco? This is a recurring pet peeve of mine. Postings made of some event that does not state where it was held, other than something vague, like central Florida.

Come up and fly with us some time. PM me. We're out most weekends. State park so only unpowered models.

Mike G.

Need to develop the sarcasm emoji...
Hated to miss this event but from what I have heard was probably for the best since I probably would have come back with 3 planes with at least 1 spear gun hole in them.