Please post the model equipment details and sources (if possible) in a separate thread.  It is always good know what people are using and where they are getting their stuff from

Flew the RC Dhamaka Yak 54 after a loooooong interval today   Since there was lots of wind, the most fun activity was to to heli type landings (coming in around 60 to 80 degree angles for landing). 

Changed the spinner today, and it made a huge impact on vibrations.  The earlier one was an old beat-up piece.  I did not expect this much impact from just the spinner being off balance.

Another Sunday passes... no one did any interesting RC stuff ?   

Lots of action for me…
firday morning 6.30am to 7.00 am
crashed my rave inverted… motor gave away – thermal shut down (actually took off at 6.45 am in the morning and I think the humidity and the heat of the middle east was too much of the American electronics...  blades, torque tube, main shaft, flybar cage, flybar, mixing arms, tail shaft, canopy… etc 

7.05 am
pulled out my furion 450 flybrless – my first conversion and my first flight on FBL…
hovered.. fantastic… then dumb instincts took over, without even looking to set up the bell and hiller and phasing number I got the heli inverted and then the servos got locked and I had a non responsive heli… CRASH…  main shaft, blades, canopy (thank god no flybar and its cage). . and by 7.08am packing up my things and driving back home…

came home and fired a CC 60 amp esc... this was my activity and took a break for a few hours and got back to fixing the helis... 

Wow.. that was not the story I was looking for  

Part of life though....

almost finished my pby catalina,hope to maiden by next sunday

I think, this is wht u r looking 4 anwar. Flying in Mansson, it was raining when v r flying today. Gr8 fun to fly under car dikky....

I think, this is wht u r looking 4 Anwar. Flying in Mansoon. Its raining today when v r flying. Gr8 fun flying under car dikky.....

That's more like it

Now, thats more like what happened to me a couple of weeks before!.. my laptop was broken, car GPS gone dead, TV settop box dead, Cellphone gets funny... All electronics were against me! Now, I am thinking like what next..

Did you have to get each of them professionally fixed or replaced ?  That would be NO fun at all

Izmile , it seems you are having a huge Static electricity/EMI problem in your house/locality. Did lightening struck recently

May be... or its just a mere coincidence.. whatever it is the end result is a huge surge out of my wallet.

On this Sunday.......

This week there was lots of action.... Went to Kozhencherry (near thiruvalla, kerala), met Jerry tried to fly my cessna... it was brushed, it flew but power was very low... Then on sunday we converted it to brushless put in a tunigy airodrive 1130KV motor.. We were joined bt dileep.. He came from madras.. We also flew jerrys GEE-BEE, lots of 3d moves... It was fun....

That is cool !  Earlier it was all either Prakkat or Santhosh who were "having friends coming over" for flying in Kerala.  Great to see more people coming together and flying in Kerala

Hope someone remembered to take pictures, amid all the excitement !

Thanx Anwar bhai... dileep had taken pics.. hope he will post it soon...

HI Guys !! Here are some pics of the regular Airoli Flying Field (next to Patni Computers)
Weather was cloudy and windy, so nobody turned up on Sat !!!

And here are the pics of the NEW AIROLI Field which Praveen had discovered  . This is about 3-4 kms from the original field.

The best part.... we have a tarmac !!!! 

There is a new construction that is being done on the Palm Beach road. This is a small patch which is idle and not being used currently. There is not much public around and its open from all sides.. A good flying patch. !!!

A few more !!!

here is the link to this tarmac.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110754926403881943048.00048a9290e2d8749bbe8&ll=19.142386,72.985879&spn=0.002493,0.005262&t=h&z=18

Here's what the daredevils at indore did last sunday and this sunday. On both days the rain Gods were smiling on Indore but that didn't deter any of us to reach our field. We waitied till the rains had slowed down to a slight drizzle before we took off. U'd notice the plastic sheet covering the Tx and that is how we flew these last 2 sundays.
The best part is our styro trainer which we could dismantle in 6 seconds flat after landing, and it can very easily be put under the car till the rains slow down. We had 2 planes up in the air and all of us took turns flying. 3 Cheers for the styro trainer 
Here are the photos.
Flying in the rains has its own charm, I must say.
Happy flying and safe landings
Doc

Thanks Saurabh for posting the link... I have updated the list of fields with the new information

That's the spirit

We also had a similar situation going for the past two weeks, extremely windy conditions.  But we make the best use of it, by trying to "heli" landing air planes (land vertically down).  It is a lot of fun, and can only be done (safely) on days with extreme amounts of wind.

Most importantly, we were also helping a newcomer train on a highwinger in such high winds.  Nothing like practising in less than ideal conditions. Of course it was on a buddy cable, so it is not all craziness !