RE: BIPLANE IDENTIFICATION
[quote]ORIGINAL: Jason Arnold Are smart arse comments ok? [:)] [/quote] Only if they are half-arsed...
Posted on: 6/28/2012 11:37 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "Electric Pattern Aircraft"
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RE: ESC Options - Jeti?
[quote]ORIGINAL: gaRCfield So Jeti Spin or Advance? Does it matter, and is 77A what people use or 90? [/quote] I used the 77 Advance Pro for a number of years with my Hacker inrunner... it only draws 64amps at full throttle. With my Pletty Advance I went to the Jeti Spin 99, even though I'm only drawing 72amps I didn't want to take any chances.
Posted on: 6/19/2012 4:14 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: FAI F3A Asian Oceanic Competition 2012 invitation
I was planning on coming there to fly but I have a work meeting/conference that week that conflicts, unfortunately! Perhaps in 2014...
Posted on: 6/15/2012 1:16 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: California June 2-3 Oakdale 2012 pattern contest
Results of the event are posted on the NSRCA website... http://nsrca.us/index.php/contest-results/2012/d7 . Results of the classic pattern are attached below...
Posted on: 6/3/2012 7:35 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 3rd annual Harry Gould Memorial Pattern Contest - Hemet, CA May 26-27
[quote]ORIGINAL: Silent-AV8R We use a scoring program that enters scores immediately after a flight using a smart phone app at F3J contests. Of course that entry is much simpler with only the flight time and landing score to be entered. But the concept is sound and proven. It updates to a website that can be seen by anyone with the URL and Internet access within seconds of the score being posted. [/quote] Very cool - I've wanted to do this for many years in pattern but my programming expertise is limited to "paying someone to do this for me". [:D] With someone like Peter doing this it may actually become a reality. Who created the F3J app? Was it Sheldon Smith?
Posted on: 5/30/2012 8:25 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 3rd annual Harry Gould Memorial Pattern Contest - Hemet, CA May 26-27
[quote]ORIGINAL: pvogel I am working on an app for iDevices that works with an update to Gordon's scoring system to directly download the scores as entered on the iPhone/iPad. Hope to pilot it at Oakdale, I need to work on the FAI handling in the Excel spread sheet just a little bit. I'm happy to enter scores in the old spreadsheet at any contest I'm attending, just ask! Peter+ [/quote] I can't wait to see this in action in Oakdale... do we need to bring a wireless router?
Posted on: 5/30/2012 6:54 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 3rd annual Harry Gould Memorial Pattern Contest - Hemet, CA May 26-27
Jeff, Welcome to D7! The last I heard you were in North Carolina or thereabouts... where are you now? How's the old man doing? I'm bummed that the Creswell contest isn't happening this year - there were a bunch of us that were looking forward to heading up north to see the McClellalan's and your Dad at the contest and to enjoy the camaraderie there...
Posted on: 5/28/2012 10:44 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Proposed 2013/2014 Sequences
[quote]ORIGINAL: klhoard [quote]ORIGINAL: mjfrederick The darn forum system keeps showing that there are unread messages for me in this thread because Everette was the last to post, and I can't see his posts. Can anyone else see his stuff showing up? [/quote] . His posts look fine to me . . . . [/quote] Yup... looks exactly the same way to me as well - just fine! [:D]
Posted on: 5/24/2012 10:54 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Petition to save a flying field
[quote]ORIGINAL: Silent-AV8R I signed as well. Just curious Derek, have you contacted Larry Tougas (AMA Dist X VP) or Tony Stillman (AMA Flying Sites) about this sitSites)i [/quote] Bill, Yes, we've been on contact with Larry and Tony... we've received some guidance from them but it has fallen on deaf ears, unfortunately.
Posted on: 5/22/2012 4:19 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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Petition to save a flying field
We need your help.... Our club has been given notice by the parks department to vacate... we would really appreciate everyone taking the time to fill out the petition and so that the Parks general manager will know there are people that care about the hobby... the petition can be located here: https://www.change.org/petitions/general-manager-east-bay-regional-park-district-do-not-kill-rc-modelling-in-the-bay-area This is our club page: http://www.barcs.org Thanks!!
Posted on: 5/18/2012 6:13 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Petition to save a flying field
Everyone, Thank you so much for the support! Our hope is that it at least will get them to entertain moving us to another site.
Posted on: 5/18/2012 6:11 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: What's going on with the NSRCA?
[quote]ORIGINAL: CLRD2LAND Hi Ryan,   To be honest, I'm not exactly sure.  I think the editor puts everything each officer sends him together and in an a, b, c format and then sends it on to the publishing company who uses Adobe InDesign to publish it.  I use that software daily myself so it's not much to change it around for online purposes.  Once put together, our editor sends it back to us to proof and then back to the publisher as a final.  How Dick and Jon Bruml and the publisher work everything I don't know. [/quote] The K-Factor editor is responsible for collecting all the articles (from the board and other parties) and advertisements (from the ad manager). The editor will then review each article and ensure it is grammatically correct and make any necessary modifications to the content. Once satisfied, the editor will send all of this to the publisher who is responsible for formatting the issue (placement of ads, etc). Once this is completed, a draft copy is sent to the editor, ad manager and a few others for review. Any changes are communicated back to the editor and these are then communicated back to the publisher... another proof is then sent back to editor (and others) for review. Once the editor is happy they will tell the publisher to print the magazine - the secretary will send the mailing list to the publisher at this time.
Posted on: 5/17/2012 8:42 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 18th Pattern by the Bay Contest - Richmond, CA
[quote]ORIGINAL: patternflyer1 Thank you Derek for CD'ing this contest for so long! You are a great asset to our sport. It takes a lot of dedication to do everything that you have done for pattern for so long.. It's appreciated! Also a big thanks goes out to Adrian for all his hard work as always! It's also appreciated! Sad to realize after I put my plane away after the 5th round that I had just flown my last flight at BARCS. Almost made me want to go ahead and fly the 6th and also a few more after the contest as it was perfect weather and the view of the bay is so hard to beat. The field and contest will be missed!!!! [/quote] Chris, Thanks for the kind words. You should've stayed around - Jon Bruml stayed and flew a couple more times after the event...
Posted on: 5/7/2012 9:42 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 18th Pattern by the Bay Contest - Richmond, CA
Wow! What a weekend for a contest at BARCS. This was, sadly, our last contest at the field as we'll be shutting down the club on June 4th due to the Parks Department turning our wonderful site into a marsh. Oh well... this is one time I disagree with the environmentalists. We had incredible weather for our event - temps were in the high 70's all weekend with little to no wind. 15 pilots came out to fly and I want to thank each and every one of you for supporting our event over the years. We also had a couple of other pilots (Mark Alexander and Ron Davies) that came out and helped to judge over the weekend and their support is also appreciated. Thank you to all those that judged and to my good friend and flying buddy, Adrian Wong, for again assisting me and helping out with the event for the past years... 18 years is a long time to host an event and unfortunately it took us 18 years to get the weather right! [:D] Scores have been posted on the [link=http://nsrca.us/index.php/contest-results/2012/d7]NSRCA website[/link] but I'll post them here as well... Sportsman: Bill Polits - 4000.000 Lawrence Tougas - 3890.109 Advanced: Jon Bruml - 4000.000 Robert Hixson - 3316.547 Masters: Krishlan Fitzsimmons - 4000.000 Jon Carter - 3895.140 Dale Olstinske - 3589.548 Robert Obregon - 3559.488 Frank Capone - 3520.592 Bill Sneed - 3508.411 Dick Belden - 3167.508 Roy Speights - 2982.380 F3A P-13: Don Atwood - 3000.000 Derek Koopowitz - 2800.250 Adrian Wong - 2606.258 F3A - F-13: Don Atwood - 1000.000 Derek Koopowitz - 897.281 Adrian Wong - 736.041
Posted on: 5/7/2012 9:40 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 18th Pattern by the Bay Contest - Richmond, CA
[quote]ORIGINAL: woodie Blue skies with the Bay in the background.... WOW!!! For those of you that are staying over Saturday night, where are you staying? Dinner anyone? [/quote] Kris F. and few of us were talking about heading to Nantucket Fish Market for dinner on Saturday - that's the little place under the Carquinez Bridge in Crockett.
Posted on: 4/30/2012 3:27 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 18th Pattern by the Bay Contest - Richmond, CA
Weather forecast for this weekend is supposed to be terrific! This should be a blast!!
Posted on: 4/30/2012 8:36 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 18th Pattern by the Bay Contest - Richmond, CA
Contest registration is available at http://www.rcpilot.com/event_details.cfm?event_id=184 - click on the Pilot Registration link below the map.
Posted on: 4/30/2012 6:49 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 1st Annual Bakersfield D7 Spring Pattern Bash
I'll second what Tony said... a great event! I look forward to the next one!!
Posted on: 4/29/2012 10:17 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 1st Annual Bakersfield D7 Spring Pattern Bash
I'm in the same boat as well... my boss (me) has me working tomorrow... I hope to let myself out a little early though... probably get down to Arvin just in time to see the sun set and eat a late dinner. [:@]
Posted on: 4/26/2012 10:56 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 1st Annual Bakersfield D7 Spring Pattern Bash
Since Jon and Dale are the writers... I'll leave it up to them!! [:D] I'd be more than happy to help out with some pics as well...
Posted on: 4/17/2012 11:06 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 18th Pattern by the Bay Contest - Richmond, CA
Great views!
Posted on: 4/17/2012 11:04 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 1st Annual Bakersfield D7 Spring Pattern Bash
I'll be there as well... I'm only coming in late on Friday night though... I have my GeeBee ready to go as well.
Posted on: 4/17/2012 10:56 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 1st Annual Bakersfield D7 Spring Pattern Bash
XL for me...
Posted on: 4/11/2012 1:38 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Prop for Neptuno?
I don't know anything about the Scorpion motor but I would start with a 20.5x14...
Posted on: 4/11/2012 7:47 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "Electric Pattern Aircraft"
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RE: 18th Pattern by the Bay Contest - Richmond, CA
Thanks for posting this, Adrian... You can register for the event by going to the [link=http://www.rcpilot.com/event_details.cfm?event_id=184]NSRCA Events[/link] page and filling out the registration information. We hope to make this a "bang-up" last event for BARCS... good weather/flying and a time to kick off the 2012 season for us in the northern part of the district. See you all in May!
Posted on: 4/5/2012 1:05 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Toxiris
[quote]ORIGINAL: desertrider49 Who makes the plane, where is it available, etc., etc., etc.. [/quote] [link=http://www.toxiris.com]Gerhard Mayr designed the plane[/link]
Posted on: 3/24/2012 6:04 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "Electric Pattern Aircraft"
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RE: Toxiris
4 more flights yesterday - playing with the CG some more... I moved the battery a little more forward and I think it helped. I'm still working on the snaps - they are pretty close now. Once I've got the plane trimmed out I'll post CG location. BTW, I have not touch wing incidence at all - I'm flying with it the way it was set at the factory.
Posted on: 3/24/2012 10:35 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "Electric Pattern Aircraft"
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RE: New Plettenberg F3A motor
Bob, I'm using a Falcon 21x14 prop with my Advance - 74amps on the ground at 6200 rpm at full throttle.
Posted on: 3/16/2012 8:07 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "Electric Pattern Aircraft"
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RE: 1st Annual Bakersfield D7 Spring Pattern Bash
[quote]ORIGINAL: TonyF The Gee Bee only comes in a bind and fly. The micro receiver is a unit that has the rudder and elevator servos, the ESC, the 3-axis gyro and the RX all on one micro board. No way to hook up a separate RX. You Futaba guys would have to get a DSM2 module or a Spektrum or JR DSM2 capable TX. Here's a link to a really low cost one that will fly the Gee Bee and other bind-n-fly models well. http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/dx5e-dsmx-5-channel-transmitter-only-mode-2-SPMR5510 [/quote] Thanks Tony... I was looking on the Horizon site for the TX modules but they are out of stock on them. I may have to get the DX5E instead...
Posted on: 3/16/2012 8:04 AM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: 1st Annual Bakersfield D7 Spring Pattern Bash
[quote]ORIGINAL: Passport1 [quote]ORIGINAL: Doug Cronkhite Sounds like a lot of fun guys. I don't know if I'll have airplanes by then, but I hope the idea really takes off! [/quote] Come up for the Gee Bee race, at the least and we could always use you as a judge for Masters and F3A. Also the Sat. night party at Kirt's house is a must. BTW as of last weekend he is officially off the market. Kirt proposed to Andrea (I hope that I spelled that right) and she said yes. Not sure on the date yet but from what they told me its going to be one heck of a party. As for the figure 8 course, I guess we can use that in the Gold Race only. I am sure we will do some testing between now and then to get a better handle the number of laps and how big of course to run. I am sure we will get it figured out. BTW Chris F., I have already ordered your plane so get Lasik your flying. Derek and Jon don't laugh they come in lots of 3 so you guys are in as well LOL Remember its all in fun. We are also going to have the noon demos put on by one of the best 3D Heli Pilots in the world. I spoke with Dave Dahl, Kyles Dahl's father today and he told me their calender was open on our date so he should be able to attend. The coolest part is he has been flying airplanes lately and has a 50cc Slick so he can enter the contest as well. I am going to go checkout a few hotels in the next couple days and will get that info posted. And last but certainly not least Mike and Jean if your out there can you PM me your number, I have asked several people for it and no luck. C [/quote] In looking at the Gee Bee plane - does it come in a provide your own RX and fly mode or is it only bind-n-fly?
Posted on: 3/15/2012 7:31 PM by Author "Derek.Koopowitz" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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