Hi All,
I am going to send in our order for the Weasel slopers that we got a special deal for, as discussed at the November meeting and in the AstroWings Newsletter, on December 4th. If you are interested in getting one of these versatile, fun slope planes, get a message and payment to me, greg@slopeflyer.com, by Monday, December 5th.
If you need more info let me know.
Thanks,
Greg
From my bunker of an office (no windows and lots of air conditioning) the only link to what the weather was like was the internet, and it was saying 70deg with 18mph winds…at the end of OCTOBER! I called Greg in the morning so I knew he’d be flying the new Omega Hills site this afternoon. I’d had about enough of work at 2:30…Ok, who am I kidding…I had enough the moment I walked in but I thought it’d be bad form to just walk in and walk out so I waited till the afternoon.
I got to the hill at about 3. Greg was already flying his 60” LEG P51. Greg is a master flyer and was making the P51 really groove. The winds were about 16 – 20mph giving impressive speed and half pipe turns.
I grabbed my Soaring USA Spyder. This plane’s been crashed and repaired several times so it’s the perfect plane to limber up what skills I have before flying my Opus. A few laps with the Spyder and I was ready for more.
Mike got there about 20mins after me. He’d repaired his Pixel after knocking the tail off on Sunday and started ripping it up. Mike is another fantastic flyer. I usually struggle with landing and he sticks them every time. He had gotten a slope fuse for one of his planes and today would be the maiden flight. As it was the flight had some ups and downs. Turns out the elevator pushrod was binding which made the elevator not center. Makes it hard to fly when your elevator isn’t working well. Pull up and it keeps going up. Push down and it keeps going down. He got it on the ground with no damage except to his nerves. Way to go Mike!
Ben Bauman got there moments after Mike and had a Zagi looking plane. He said he flew on Wednesday when we had a NW wind and temps in the high 40’s. With temps about 70 it was quite a difference.
I flew my CSD P51 till a bad hop on landing broke the tail. This type of PSS plane is real easy to repair so it won’t be down long.
Greg tried some DS with limited success. We’re determined to make this spot work for DS so we’ll continue testing till we find what winds work.
We continued to fly till about 4:30 when Greg, Ben and Mike had to leave. I continued to fly for about 30mins practicing my landing with the Spyder. Toss it, make a few passes and land. Repeat.
This hill is going to be a dream come true. Winds that we couldn’t do anything with are now an invitation to fun. Thanks Greg, Mirko, Roger and everyone else who made this possible.