Tea? (Part 2)

[TVC]

Strange, we had sausage and chips for tea. Granted the sausages were Longhorn Beef and made by the farmer himself, and the chips were.... well you know. The tomatoes came out of avtin though.

Just off to Boots to collect my new glasses

Smell you later.

 

[potsy]

How many sauages and how many eggs and will there by any other food items on the plate with them ?

Lots

All in my strict calorie controlled diet though

 

[phil_hg_uk]

How will you know how to get to the right Boots?

Is boots open at this time

 

[phil_hg_uk]

He'll soon find out

Maybe not if he cant see

 

[potsy]

He could borrow Jo's dog - Snipe would make a good guide dog, me thinks

She only knows how to get to the health food shop

 

[potsy]

She only knows how to get to the health food shop

*edited before bumpkin sees it*

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I have finally learnt how to do figure 8's with my RC Helicopter ............. then I snapped a blade linkage ............. damn that wind

Can you do a loop the loop?

I can in my Hurricane (on the simulator).

 

[potsy]

Didn't that say something slightly different?

No

Stop causing trouble you, it's only just come back

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

No

Stop causing trouble you, it's only just come back

It? IT? To whom do you refer?

 

[potsy]

It? IT? To whom do you refer?

Typo

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Can you do a loop the loop?

I can in my Hurricane (on the simulator).

I am not up to doing 3D with them yet, the one I broke today is a Blade mCPX which is a micro Collective Pitch and cant do 3D, but I will be taking my Blade Nano CPX out at the weekend which can do 3D.

I took a 5 year break from heli's and I am just getting back into them again, I will have to get out the big heli sometime but judging by the amount of times I crash the small one that can wait. When I crash the Nano it is only a couple of quid for the parts but a top end rebuild on the big heli can cost upwards of £50 a time.

What simulator have you got I use Pheonix which works with my TX. I have been trying the planes recently on the simulator I managed to master take off a loop then landing from the opposite end in about 5 hours. The only thing that worries me with planes is that if you cant turn it round it will just bugger off into the distance with a helicopter you can just fly it backwards.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I am not up to doing 3D with them yet, the one I broke today is a Blade mCPX which is a micro Collective Pitch and cant do 3D, but I will be taking my Blade Nano CPX out at the weekend which can do 3D.

I took a 5 year break from heli's and I am just getting back into them again, I will have to get out the big heli sometime but judging by the amount of times I crash the small one that can wait. When I crash the Nano it is only a couple of quid for the parts but a top end rebuild on the big heli can cost upwards of £50 a time.

What simulator have you got I use Pheonix which works with my TX. I have been trying the planes recently on the simulator I managed to master take off a loop then landing from the opposite end in about 5 hours. The only thing that worries me with planes is that if you cant turn it round it will just bugger off into the distance with a helicopter you can just fly it backwards.

Well I have the IL-2 Sturmovik one. It's just a game really, WW2 planes. It feels realistic but I'm sure flying is much harder than the simulator lets on. There are differences in the way the simulated aircraft fly tho'. There is a Jet (forget which one) which, if you get the speed up too high, becomes a brick. I'm yet to figure out how to survive that.
I think there are heli simulators. Perhaps I should give one a try. A friend of mine built a model heli back in the late 70's. He never flew it (in case he crashed it). He got as far as flying it on some sort of tether. He reckoned figuring out how to use the controls was tricky because left and right exchange places depending on which way the thing was pointing (unlike a plane).

 

[Speicher]

As the Paris to Nice race is next month, I have been getting some practice in descending. At about sixty seconds in, you can see me overtake The Doctor.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Did you not stop at the top for a "rest" Speicher?

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Well I have the IL-2 Sturmovik one. It's just a game really, WW2 planes. It feels realistic but I'm sure flying is much harder than the simulator lets on. There are differences in the way the simulated aircraft fly tho'. There is a Jet (forget which one) which, if you get the speed up too high, becomes a brick. I'm yet to figure out how to survive that.
I think there are heli simulators. Perhaps I should give one a try. A friend of mine built a model heli back in the late 70's. He never flew it (in case he crashed it). He got as far as flying it on some sort of tether. He reckoned figuring out how to use the controls was tricky because left and right exchange places depending on which way the thing was pointing (unlike a plane).

Ah right I see you are using a Flight Simulator of a real aircraft. The one I use is a simulator of RC aircraft and heli's and enables me to plug the transmitter I use with my RC Heli's into the usb port on my PC and control the models on screen with it. I can then practice manuvoures without having to do it on the actual thing and risk crashing. The models in the simulator are copies of the real models and programmed to act exactly the same.

With an RC Heli you start flying it with the tail towards you (tail in) and then progress to side on figure 8's (which is where I am at) then you have to master nose in, which is flying it with the nose pointing towards you. As you point out at this point most of the controls then reverse so it is just a matter of training you brain to do it automatically which is what I am working on at the moment.