RE: Onas by CA Models
More pics.....
Posted on: 11/17/2009 1:37 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Electric Pattern Aircraft"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9260356

RE: Hacker C50 13XL (Comp). What's your experience?
I have one and being flying it for about 150 flights. Can not say anything about problems or failures or cost of repairs. Useing an 21 x 14 prop. You have to make sure to relube the gearbox every 50 flights. It`s realy easy, have to remove 4 screws, clean the old grase very carefully, relube it and put all together again. If you need the instructions I have it printed, just ask. Check this thread. http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_8978321/tm.htm
Posted on: 10/29/2009 4:45 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9212898

RE: Help me choose some F3A lipo packs
I have been useing the Rhino 5s 4900 20C packs for a while and are great. A friend of mine uses the Zippy Flightmax 4400 15c and the 5000 20c and both work great too. The Turnigy pachs are heavier than the Flightmax packs.
Posted on: 10/7/2009 5:51 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Electric Pattern Aircraft"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9154611

RE: Setting up a radio
In my case for the snap condition I use more aileron and rudder and less elevator (compare to the normal flight condition) and for spins more elevator and rudder.
Posted on: 9/9/2009 3:38 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9081935

RE: Setting up a radio
tIANci, I´m flying a CA Model Genesis, I use aileron differential, Rudder to elevator mix for KE flight a little amount between 3-5%. This is because when you aply rudder on KE the airplane wants to go to the canopy or the landing gear, and a 1-2 % RUD to AIL mix. This mixes are always on, I donÂ... when I´m going to perform that manuver.
Posted on: 9/9/2009 9:23 AM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9081219

RE: What is the real story from Portugal?
This is how the Aussie team saw the competition. I get this from his blog. http://aussiemodelflyers.blogspot.com/ The Wind conditions were very good, light winds, but as usual across the track. There was a slight bias towards a direction but the pattern could be flown either way. We, the Aussie's, watched everyone of the finals flights. Obviously everyone had good practice for the final schedule, and were flying well. It was the styles that was interesting. Onda, the Paysant-Leroux were HUGE, they had to be easily pushing the 60 degree box marker. But obviously this had no effect on the scores. The Austrian, Gerhard Mayr, to our boys mind, flew brilliantly. Within the rules, not too big or small, with a very controlled flight of constant speed and precision. He flew very level, very technically correct. He is the guys with the unusual little extra-fins on the fin. See pictures below in previous post. In our mind, he should have been in the top three. His electric engine was superb, very quite and just a light hum sound. Next to comment on is Quique Somenzini, again flew brilliantly. Fairly open pattern, his rolls in the pattern were similar to everyone elses, slow and long, but in the last unknown where they had a vertical square 8 with half roll in the middle (see photos Unknown Schedule 2) he cleverly tightened up the radius and quicken the roll rate to keep the maneuver to a reasonable size. Just about everyone else using a slow roll, made a square rectangle, and would have gone into the clouds - if there were any! Quique is one of those flyers who are able to keep the plane absolutely level. His rolling circles and loops were brilliant, on the last unknown he was the only person to go reverse direction on the wind. The reason being, he told Steve, was that the snaps could be done into the wind with more control. In the Aussie's minds Quique would have been a good bet to win the event. We are devastated and that he has been robbed to be given 7th place. As we said to quique at the banquet, now you know what the Aussie feel like..... Onda flew the same style as Christophe, huge, very large radius' with long smooth rolls. His rolling circles were very wide and deep. His ability to fly the plane like this is amazing. All the Japanese all seemed to fly very level. (Because of their training no doubt). The only question on this style "can it be flown at 150m and inside the box, as the rules state?" we think not! But as at most world championships, the guys will copy or follow the person's style who is scoring the maximum! Suzuki and Akiba flew very similar styles to each other, slightly smaller than Onda, but still reasonably large. To the boys, they still flew reasonably well with just small errors creeping in on the harder maneuvers, such as the rolling loops and circles. Christophe and Benoit flew the same type of aircraft with similar styles. Their patterns were HUGE! or bigger! To the Aussies, the wings were always 15 degrees out of level, at least, (we know this looks right, because that is how most of the sportsman flyers want to fly, when you are training them. of course the rules say, wings out of level is a major area of downgrade) One of the areas that was very questionable, was the stall turns. The aircraft never, ever stalled, (so it was never going to flop) and seemed to be driving over with alot of throttle. You can see this by the smoke trail at the top of the turn and the fact that the plane turned over very quickly. Radius and rolls were so big and long that there was little time for straight lines between individual parts of the maneuvers and between some maneuvers. The snaps of alot of the flyers were questionable, with very little elevator being used. So is the case with Christophe and Benoit. (but hey if they get scored for it, why would they want to change!) and example was in the two snaps reversed in the Unknowns where the aircraft wanted to finish nosedown, this being a direct result of very little elevator to pitch the nose up at the beginning of the snap. To Steve, the snap looks like one wing throws itself over. To the Aussies, the scores left us amazed, unsurprised, but amazed. To us we thought they would have finished much further down the results. especially Benoit. It seems strange that one person can dominate the scoring in this type of company for all rounds, including the preliminaries. Christophe won every round of the comp bar one. Especially when the pattern is flown technically incorrect. wings out of level by at least 15 degree, box infringements, lack of straight lines, questionably snaps with no pitch, driven over stall turns, wings not square in vertical lines when there is a crosswind (so you don't have to yaw the model into breeze when pulling level) Spins becoming unstalled when the nose drops so far. Jason Shulman flew his tighter style that we saw in Australia. He also seems to have a tendency to fly wing down (as most of the US team do and have done, except quique) On his last flight of the comp he also hit the famous Darty Fence when landing. The German flyer, Bernd Beschorner, fly brilliantly. Technically correct, very level, within the rules of the box. His only fault was perhaps having difficulty landing the snaps. What is sad for the Aussies, is that the World Championship title should be the best on the day and this title should have been someone elses, we have all spent lots of money and hoped for the opportunity to do our best, and when you make it to the final 10, and out fly people, you expect to get the podium. That was definitely not the case here. We feel for some of the other pilots. Podium Photos. There are lots of pictures in the web. Try this. http://aeromodelismocampoo.com/foro/viewtopic.php?t=974&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 http://www.aeromodelismoecuador.com/f3aboletines2009.htm http://equipoargentinof3a.blogspot.com/ http://2009worldsportugal.shutterfly.com/
Posted on: 9/7/2009 4:01 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9076521

RE: THE WC 2009 THREAD!!! its about time!!!
The 2 unknown for tomorrow finals.
Posted on: 8/28/2009 6:06 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9052709

RE: THE WC 2009 THREAD!!! its about time!!!
Chad congratulation for your 16th place. It´s your best WC position?
Posted on: 8/28/2009 2:41 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9052285

RE: THE WC 2009 THREAD!!! its about time!!!
[quote]ORIGINAL: Doug Cronkhite I'm confused.. I thought the preliminaries carried over as a 'flight' and then was added to the semi-finals score. Was the semi-finals a completely new contest again? [/quote] The carry over points are in the column that say "Panel 1" and the "Panel 2" column are the normalized semis points. If you add Panel 1 + panel 2
Posted on: 8/28/2009 2:38 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9052280

RE: THE WC 2009 THREAD!!! its about time!!!
Andrew out of finals ?????????!!!!!!!!! It´s hard to belive. I would bet my head that he will finish in the top 5. The 13th place of Bret is very good consider this is his 1st WC and his age. It seems that the battle for the WC will be between QQ, CPLR and Onda. Hope Jason "kick the table" and win.
Posted on: 8/28/2009 2:02 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9052211

RE: THE WC 2009 THREAD!!! its about time!!!
[quote]ORIGINAL: flywilly Where is Roland Matt? [/quote] Probably at home.
Posted on: 8/26/2009 10:22 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9048146

RE: THE WC 2009 THREAD!!! its about time!!!
One more, it seems that his plane has a thicker TE rudder
Posted on: 8/22/2009 8:01 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9036462

RE: THE WC 2009 THREAD!!! its about time!!!
In a couple of pictures I saw he was with his Comp - ARF Integral but he added a T Canalizer. He calls it the INTEGRAL-X
Posted on: 8/22/2009 7:52 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9036446

RE: Ecuadorian F3A team at Portugal
Xavier, my best wishes to all the ecuatorian team. Keep pictures coming Mandales saludos a los integrantes del equipo, y mis deseos de exitos
Posted on: 8/21/2009 12:16 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9033586

RE: the winner of F3A WC 2009..
It´s "Electric era" I go with JASON. It would be great to create a poll in this thread so we can see the percentages of votes for each pilot. Some pilots in the list could be: CPLR, BPLR, S. Carriere, QQ, Jason, Andrew, Bret, T. Onda, Y. Akiba, K. Suzuki, Seba, G. Mayr, B. Beschorner. Just options.
Posted on: 8/13/2009 4:20 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9013902

RE: Turnigy Sentilion 100Amp ESC
A friend of mine is useing this ESC with a Turnigy 63-64 motor and 2x 5s Rhino 4900 20C LiPo (all chineese stuff) with goos suxess. He don´t put too many flights on it, about 30. After a 9 minutes flight on a CA Model Genesis 4.80 Kg all stuff is only warm, 20-22ºC (consider that we are in winter, about 10ºC) Do not espect to have many set up posibilities. If you see the program card you will noticed that you can choose from 3 different options in aceleration, voltage cut of, etc. If you set the brake on the motor start to make an owfull noise in down legs so he disable the brake. For me is a good deal, simple and cheap. Hope this help.
Posted on: 7/29/2009 2:46 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Electric Pattern Aircraft"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8974010

RE: Oxai
Very nice design Bryan, thank you for shearing with us [sm=thumbs_up.gif]. Enjoy the pictures, I don´t think they lasts too much. [:)][:D][;)] (Just kidding, no ofence)
Posted on: 7/3/2009 10:30 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8904812

RE: Oxai
Crap, they (the MIB) ereased all my computer files includeing the Shark photographs. No, the red light again...................... [:)][:D][;)]
Posted on: 7/2/2009 10:43 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8902392

RE: Oxai
Wait a minute, someone is on knocking on my front door.
Posted on: 7/2/2009 10:40 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8902382

RE: Oxai
Now is a GLOBAL conspiracy[sm=shades_smile.gif]. This time I copy all the pictures in my computer.
Posted on: 7/2/2009 10:37 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8902373

RE: Brian Hebert's new F3A Design - Valiant
I want to congratulate Mr. Bryan Hebert for his new design. This plane is made by OXAI. You are a really clever and inteligent guy. I don´t know if all this thread was real or just a big ball of smoke to keep our eyes distract with the Valiant while your Shark been tested. I don´t even know if the Valiant is true. I take my hat of, congratulate and salutte you.[sm=thumbs_up.gif] I think you deceived as all. [;)] http://www.oxai-rc.com/main/Detail.aspx?ID=56&DID=310
Posted on: 6/30/2009 4:32 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8894792

RE: Oxai
Is that a Bipe on the logo ?
Posted on: 6/30/2009 3:56 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8895194

RE: Oxai
Mmmmmmmmm, more bipes !!!!!!!!!!! Really an advantage or just fashion ? A very nice design.
Posted on: 6/30/2009 1:27 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8894800

RE: Ventura- new Quique Somenzini design
[sm=confused.gif]
Posted on: 6/25/2009 9:32 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8881331

RE: Ventura- new Quique Somenzini design
Elan120, I think that Quique spinner is custom made by Tru-Turn. You just tell them what you want (spinner size, shape, color, prop size and brand and if you want something special like Quique´s have) and they will do it. They have a really good custom service.
Posted on: 6/25/2009 9:30 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8881326

RE: Ventura- new Quique Somenzini design
This plane is useing a RASA folding prop and a Plettenberg motor. I really don´t know if this will be the set up he will be useing in WC Portugal.
Posted on: 6/25/2009 6:45 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8880902

RE: Brian Hebert's new F3A Design - Valiant
Mmmmm..... it seems that the "CIA"[sm=shades_smile.gif] or the "Secret Service" [:D][sm=47_47.gif] have ereased all the photos of the new plane.
Posted on: 6/24/2009 9:18 AM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8876688

RE: Ventura- new Quique Somenzini design
For me is the same plane with a different color scheme. Maybe the tail group (rudder) is a little smaller is his new design.
Posted on: 6/24/2009 8:44 AM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8876603

RE: Brian Hebert's new F3A Design - Valiant
New design + CompARF production + JAS color scheme = JAS plane for WC Portugal 2009 ?
Posted on: 6/23/2009 2:58 PM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8874451

RE: Tournoi de Champagne
I meant that he uses 6 Li-Po packs instead of 10 Li-Po packs for feed the motor. If you see carefully the nose of his Yak you will see the sticker with the kidd "pissing" 10 Li-Po. I wanted to know if someone have more information about his configuration (model weight, capacity of batteries, etc.) and performance of his Yak.
Posted on: 6/22/2009 11:07 AM by Author "Ricardo M." in the forum "Pattern Flying"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8871187