This thread is dedicated to RCI members meeting up with each other and sharing their experience. Remember, outside this forum some people (Like sandy Jain, Mr Nagar Tahlan sir and many others) are meeting WPC officials and trying to get a absolute legal standing (Without any shades of grey) for this hobby. Our networking will serve towards this common goal of promoting this hobby. Network, we must, and share your networking experience, so that we know the clusters of friends, if ever we have to come together as one for the hobby.

Following threads (in the chronological order that i met them) are because of RCI, we could network and made some friends who are for life.

Sandy aka sundaram aka sundaram velar

Rohit, Ankit and Kalyan

Sushil Anand

VC

Sandy Jain

Karma Paljor

Saurabh Rastogi

Santosh

Palladagu Sujith

Jack

Sai Krishna


to meet some more people soon, eagerly waiting to meet them.

I am ever so eagerly waiting to meet Anwar Bhai

PS
E&OE, point out if any

Gusty

I'm looking forward eagerly to meeting you on my return. How long will you be in Mumbai?

Sanjay

middle of jan, well after your return from "truly asia". looking forward to meet you sir

Forgot me  

of course not, how can i, your pic and the book, and clancy

But someone deleted some pic. like "Question : How much LiPO is essental for field ?"
Deleted on September 12, 2012, 11:28:24 AM of post of " June 03, 2011, 06:30:26 AM"

Do I have to say "Oh GOD What I had done" as it is observed just now and can not go beyond time and say the phrase now ? A PM may solve this earlier. However, the picture was really good, and will be missed by late joiner of this forum. I pray that the recognition should come as early as possible from wpc.

Honoured to have featured on this list in august company.......

VC

more than one in this forum will agree, the honour was ours as much if not more than you, to meet you

PS
not able to reach, could you call when free

Thanks Gusty bhaiya!!

Met Sampath at Shameerpeth lake flying ground, here is his vid Sampath aka spoth , had some Biriyani and 'Shahi Tukda' at paradise .

Caught up with Ujjwanna, Shadman, Adarsh bond, akshay, karthik and Sanjeev of rcdhamaka. Ujjwana kindly looked after me, thanks johny, sanjeev and karthik allowed me to their club Bowring institute, thanks guys, It was great to fly with Shadman, had the opportunity to fly his MXSR 50 cc. Flew most 3 d manoeuvres. Best compliment was 'Where has this balloon come from', in a hover (though it is prelude to a Mano and not a Mano in itself). Thanks Shadman for letting me fly your beauty( I know I gave you some heart in mouth, sorry for that) pics to follow.

Met Ujjwal John & his Calmato

Johny, Sanjeev, Karthik & I


Shadman MXSR we flew it to our heart'c content

Sanjeev, Karthik & I went to a club (the Best RC Shop this side of Suez may be !!)

hello??

Of course  
Karma & I of course met because of Sandy Jain   (That was a neat cover up, no   )
here is a pic of Karma when he visited home and my Ardhangini, an avid diver

looks like i really missed a lot.... waiting for ur belgaum trip..!

this was, when i went flying with paladagu sujith to shaamerpeth lake area, look at the spad, with skewed thrust line and ugly build, it did rolling circles, maker of this model was mighty thrilled with his build. on board cam is on that spad

Thanks Sujith for a good time and flying time

cheery on the pudding was catching up with VC again and discussing the whole trip,

VC, his birds and I

Oh god.sorry gusty sir for gatecrashing.But who is mr. karma?Is he the one on CNN-IBN?oh god.dont tell me he is!dad and me are big fan of him!

Yes he is so am i, (a fan )

 
Is madhavan(3 idiots actor) also oon this forum.saw him in chennai once.flying his gassers.ndtv has made a video on him too.

?

respected gusty sir,
please have a look at this.


 
 

of course kartik, this one (the actor) is a freind too, just that he is not on our forum as yet (Hopefully will be soon)

Thanks for being there Gusty.

In this visit to Mumbai caught up nandan(Xantos), Saurab(saurabhhsrivastavaa) Amar (Vector)

Had a good time sailing and Flying Jets with Nandan & Catching up again with Sushil and meeting THE Dosu Bhiwandiwala at his sprawling mansion

and a good day of tech and history discussion with Saurab and Amar at Saurabh's Place, couldn't catch up with Sanjay Sir, bhanu and Shannon

Thats a great collection

looking forward to meeting you on your next visit .............

looking forward for RC Pilgrimage to Aizawl too ... :-)

That is some pilgrimage Gusty. Hats off.

By the way Chaps, were you aware that Varsha Ma'am (Mrs. Gusty) is an ex IAF Officer? She is a Squadron Leader (Retd.) and served as a Flight Controller. 

thanks guys, i know i don't deserve any kudos, all my friends received me like their own and showered me with overwhelming love and hospitality, and certainly no embellishment in this statement.  like i said in my first post, this thread is dedicated to networking amongst RCI Members

Visit to MAA will be executed soon, the moment Sandy comes back from pune, we are driving down

Not before you two horrible, despicable characters maiden some virgin models ( I mean some coro / depron RC Aircraft Models - just to clarify) in Guwahati.  

Btw, you are DRIVING down to MAA from Shilong? When, Count me in, I will ride in the boot/dicky..............

thanks for the clarification,   starting with the mig 29, ford has made an endeavour to carry us and the models. it is far we can take turns driving

Anytime Capt.. as long you promise to bring her down in one piece - I am serious and I mean this Gusty - she is yours.

Gusty, the loss is mine; I do look forward to meeting up in the near future

Looking forward to see the masters Gusty, Sandy and VC ..... among MAA

FPVers family had good time with gaurav, video and one interesting episode to follow, this was a family get together at smit valley, fun 15 kms FPV flying, pulao, paratha and fun. thanks gaurav & fly for allowing us (sandy & I) to host you.


PS
one more meeting on the cards

and i am waiting whenever you come to your so called sasuraal 

Great pictures of a lovely family in a beautiful place

i am waiting too, we can fly in our farm at bidoli

thank you sir, it was great times we had

As usual, the timing was way off for me - so near yet so far. My bad luck. Gusty please elaborate on the 'interesting episode to follow' - I think it refers to an officer and a gentleman and a scuba suit and a fine rescue  . Please don't be modest now. It is a once in a lifetime incident and we would love to hear about it.

This is for you:

It is still fresh in our memories how Gusty dived behind the Quad even without the Scuba gear right from the Canoe till 5M.

  to Gusty.

This was the place where we did yet another memorable recovery and we got to see a beautiful waterfall which we did not know even existed.

Sundaram sir this look really Fab...
Would like to see the video...


Sent from my Canvas using tapatalk 2

Thanks

Gaurav's  video are even more spectacular on GoPro

Ruggedly beautiful  

Thankyou sir 

Here is one interesting episode of recovering a ditched Quadcopter

An another one of cross country recovery

met up with Ghanesh alias Rajshekhar of erstwhile mpowershopping. both him and his father are enthu fliers, they have one floor dedicated to aeromodels, a nice lift that carries you to that floor. Good to catch up with you Ghanesh. There was one nice 14 channel MiG 29 waiting to be maidened there, one day, it will be, maidened by me, which reminds me that one is waiting at Guwahati too (VC, are you listening )

My visit to RcBazaar too will fall in this category of RC India pilgrimage, though couldn't catch up with Sujju, caught up with his team (Minus dilip, who was on a Honey Moon)


Full account Here

Indore
Nearly Fag end of my pilgrimage, (only Delhi left now though met up with some of them). Met up with FlyingDoc (Vikas), Iyer sir & Ma'am, Harveer, Aaron, Salim Bhai, Harveer's elder bro, soni, and some more avid modellors who are not on the forum.

Wonderful place to fly from, After couple of flights we have tea made by Mrs Iyer and sometimes something to eat. First day we caught up was at Iyer Sir's son's wedding(see pic), nice place to catch up. subsequently at the field where i flew my huge sky surfer and couple of other models of Mr Iyer, Mrs Iyer and Iyer sir flew my well trimmed model and had a blast.

Here are some pics

Did some aerial videography, chased some aeroplane, flew below and hovering aeroplane, did some aeros, some pics of the same are here

Did some stunts (Did all aeros with cam) and some formation flying

That's Harveer's Katana (scratch built) beautiful bird to fly

Gusty let RC Aunt fly his plane (note hands behind his back)

Till he decided to snatch the Tx back...

...and she wasn't even crashing...

Gusty under the wires but over the cars...

Gusty with my Spitfire upside down...

Just realised that gusty's pics of my Pilatus B4 glider were not taken by him - but by his plane's camera while in flight!

Hahaha! I wasn't. I asked her to land. She insisted I do the honors.

What a fun we had!

Well for the post above here is the proof, RC Aunt is Flying and yours truly is watching with folded hands. Iyer sir, gotcha!

This is one great shot, Harveer on inverted Harrier and me tailchasing him on Sky surfer, My aeroplane was buffeting in his prop wash, we were so close

For the benefit of the uninitiated, the 'Inverted Harrier' is NOT related to a Harrier GR.1 / GR.3 or AV-8A/C/S Harrier flying inverted. Don't bother searching for it in the photograph posted in the earlier post.

It is an aerobatic manoeuvre where an aircraft executes a very slow inverted forward flight motion with the nose high at about 45 degrees of attitude.

Watch the video here:

http://www.modelairplanenews.com/blog/2013/06/05/advanced-aerobatics-the-inverted-harrier/

Hope this helps.

1. Watta shot Gusty!

2. That lady has class - no wonder Iyer Sahab is so proud of her.

Respect and Regards to all concerned.

Well

this was time i met Akky (Akshay Bhardwaj) Chipper Raju at my in-laws place dehradun. Did some good flying of some exquisite aeroplanes and Multirotors.

It was back to back build and fly scene, Chipper's collection is huge, some of the aeroplanes he has, i dont think anyone in India has them, classics, For all and Sundry, Raju is an old hand at this hobby, in fact he co-owned an hobby shop in Pune, has been around since CL days.

Akky, multirotor specialist was my man ! there at Doon

It was a pleasure flying with you gusty uncle ... I see more days like these in future

Certainly Akky. You could come over to Hyde any time and fly my planes

Hi Gusty..... Do you know Amal Gupta from Chaman Vihar in Dehradun... He is an instructor in Doon School and a good friend.. Also are there any flyers here from Mussoorie??

Thanks
Deepak

Caught up finally with Sanjay sir and girish !! some more people to meet up before this pilgrimage is complete





No Sir

How nice... So you guys had a fun flying day in New Delhi..

Wonderful having you over Gusty! Looking forward to the next visit - and flying together 

I have been interacting with Vishvesh a.k.a AEROVISHWA for over 5 yrs now, vishvesh caught up with me at hyde, we went to visit my ole bird, and donning some helmet

Caught up with Ayush owner of www.gimbalworld.com at New Delhi (His handle goes by the same name gimbalworld), an Entrepreneur who is doing a great service to this hobby, bought couple of 10000 mah 6Ss 5300 4Ss etc etc from him and enjoyed having a meal together in his office. Nice premises lot of passion for Gimbals and Gryphon kits (High end nice kits)

What a Pilgrimage this has been, over 4 yrs been to best of the RC mandirs of India like Vivek Sharma's manufacturing Unit, RCBazaar, RCDhamaka, GimbalWorld, etc saw some exquisite collections of Nandan, Chipper and many more

Made some Best Friends For Life, been part of the family in thick and thin.

Best part is this is still continuing, need to meet up some more, before the bucket is kicked

it was indeed an honour and fun to actually meet up with you after a long time talk.

sharing a pic of your storeroom. lost count half way.

https://f4k3url/photos/zZfTPXzwMbVTqbzV6

(URL getting screwed up of the image..)

People have started abusing/misusing URL shortening services.  Plus knowing where clicking something will lead me to is needed these days in terms of security.

Please use the URL (or IMG) tag for posting long URLs, as described in this post.

http://www.rcindia.org/rc-india-forum/tips-embedding-urls/

Finally caught up with Shobit, at Allahabad. Saw his impeccable building skills. ma'am is another inspiring RC wife, fully supportive

Journey continues

 

Great

Hello people
i have a little question to ask.
If i ever come to chennai or indore , to whom  i could  meet ?
I am eager to meet and fly with aeromodellers there as i have relatives there .
There is a possibility/probablity of coming there.
Regards