Hi All,
Today Paul and I went down to the field we rent in order to take advantage of the sunshine which we hoped would produce some thermals allowing us to fly our DLG models.
When we got to the field at 11:30 we noticed that the posts at the furthest end which we had yet to remove, were gone. There were at least 20 posts left to remove out of the approximately 100 that were there. Paul and I had already removed 80 or so with the help of the owner and his son and expected to be removing the last 20 some time soon.We assume the owner has removed them for us. So, we thank him very much for saving us a lot of further effort.
Today there wasn't a great deal of thermal activity at low altitude and despite numerous DLG launches of both mine and Paul's models, we never managed more than about 1 minute at maximum in the air. Paul also brought one of his electric thermal gliders and once that was up, it soared away to incredible height and could have stayed there all day. There was clearly thermal activity at altitude, but we guessed that the field hadn't had sufficient time to warm up enough for the DLG models.
Our advice for warm days is to go to the field later in the day when the ground has warmed up enough to produce good thermals.
However, after 2 hours of flying, we both agreed that it was a really enjoyable way to pass the time and that the field is a very nice place to be !!
Hope to see some more members down there soon....
Best regards
Rob
Slope Soaring Sussex is a friendly group of RC glider flying enthusiasts based in Sussex, UK. We slope soar at various locations on the South Downs and have a field for thermal soaring. ‘Slope Soaring Sussex’ is a BMFA affiliated RC Glider-only flying club. We fly many types of RC gliders from conventional slope soarers to Scale, DLG, F3B, F3J, F5J, PSS and more. Our aim is to encourage and promote safe, responsible and enjoyable radio controlled model flying. New and experienced flyers welcome.
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