Here is the maiden flight of (and subsequent damage to) Ron’s Hobby King Cessna 182 foamie RC model airplane. Note the cheerful banter and encouraging words that can be heard on any Sunday at the South Waikato Model Aero club as the members gladly assist in helping a follow modeler to fix is damaged model. Yeah – right!
This is a video of me landing at night in a Cessna 150. Sorry about the night shot, it was the only way to see everything. This flight was for my long cross country for my commercial pilot training. I flew from Salisbury, MD (KSBY) to Wilmington, NC (KILM), to Norfolk, VA (KORF) and returned to Salisbury. Notice the horrible nose-wheel shimmy haha. The plane is old.
Haha Noobking at work again. LONG LIVE HOBBYZONE!
how far will it fly? can you get the range of the hand held controller signal to over a mile??
lol there goes the wheel bloody hell!
hi.. my HK Durafly Cessna 182 Skylane burnt it’s ESC upon maiden taxi.. had to buy and wait for a new ESC… Servos are of very low quality and are prone to shortage.. however, the fuselage and decals look nice and tough though.. had a crash and only broke half a prop and engine cowl.. landing strut is soft and wheels tend to deform when parked for a long time..
looks good, whats the wingspan?
“wait for the wings to fall off”…
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@48horijoe – Wow, weird! Were about to enter spring in Utah USA
@UtRadioGuy its autum wont be long and the frost will be here
there are flaps on that model!maby use them?
@48horijoe Yeah, you never know what’s around the corner eh?
Sorry for Bruce’s reference to the Christchurch earthquake but this was filmed a few days before the recent disaster. Our thoughts are with those affected by this tragedy. Its a pity those lives and buildings cant be repaired as easy as our mishaps.
Gee isnt there some good looking guys in this club, especially the ones from Taupo.
Looks like it has great flight characteristics. Here, Ron is whipping that thing through aileron turns in knife edge that makes it look like a Yak! So what if the esc fries…..upgrading a stable platform like this with bigger better guts would be a fun and worthwhile project!
@pilotboy17 Right on. All US airports have FAA IDs, not all of them have ICAO IDs. For those with ICAO IDs as well, sometimes the FAA IDs don’t largely correspond with ICAO IDs, sometimes they do. And there’s a lot of airports that don’t have ICAO codes at all, just FAA. And for those who don’t know: Alaska and Hawaii airports have ICAO codes that begin with P, not K. Good call, pilotboy!
@steveowens85 i know its legal it happens to me all the time it’s funny because it always happens when i’m holding short, i’ve never been on final final and watched someone LUAW
@roofy2k You can LUAW an aircraft once the plane is at the landing threshold, the plane on the ground is aware of the aircraft about to land its legal, you just cant luaw a plane behind a heavy on the same runway.
The position and hold instruction was perfectly ok. He was already at the threshold and wants the plane on the runway as soon as possible so when the 150 is clear they can send the citation up. Absolutely nothing wrong with that and, in fact, is a good call to keep things moving smoothly.
@pilotboy17
Although you dont need much wake seperation from a C150, this isn’t the best ATC call I’ve heard…. thats when you find out who your friends are lol.
Great landing!
Very nice!!
Very nice landing i live in the hampton roads area love that airport and its small and has very well trained pilots and atc
Probably not exactly legal, but I would guess ATC authorized P&H well knowing that he could not do so quickly enough to be a factor in the 150′s landing . . .
@stealhty1 –Actually it is called anticipated separation. I believe it was a citation which takes a second or two to spool up and get the plane moving. Perfectly legal, perfectly safe (happens 1000x per day). There was no issue with the instructions.
YEAP position and hold as you was about to cross the thresshold,
atc controller must go back to remedial training,as they had sent me in my past
show off landing, (smooth as silk)! Nice job!!!! happy landings.
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