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Camp n Fly 2025!!! May 3-4th!!

So we have spoke about having a time to fly molded planes in the past, and we certainly can. But it would be the same amount of planes in the air, but all moldies! LOL. Then instead of hitting a foam plane, 2 moldies go down. $1500 + $1500. What would be best, is to limit the amount of planes up at a time, but that is too difficult to manage. We can always ask and see if everyone is good with that, but most people want to fly when the winds pick up because they have been waiting all day for the winds to hit. When I fly my moldies there, I look before I launch of course, then fly further out and stay further out from the hill. Even in the early years of this event, we had moldies hit each other with only 3-4 planes in the air. Wayne's fluffy bunny went in. I actually have the video of it from the air on one of my GoPro's, you can here the hit, but it flew just out of the view when it did.

Jeremy
 
Diceman said:
So we have spoke about having a time to fly molded planes in the past, and we certainly can. But it would be the same amount of planes in the air, but all moldies! LOL. Then instead of hitting a foam plane, 2 moldies go down. $1500 + $1500. What would be best, is to limit the amount of planes up at a time, but that is too difficult to manage. We can always ask and see if everyone is good with that, but most people want to fly when the winds pick up because they have been waiting all day for the winds to hit. When I fly my moldies there, I look before I launch of course, then fly further out and stay further out from the hill. Even in the early years of this event, we had moldies hit each other with only 3-4 planes in the air. Wayne's fluffy bunny went in. I actually have the video of it from the air on one of my GoPro's, you can here the hit, but it flew just out of the view when it did.

Jeremy
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Hi Jeremy, I'd love to see a situation where 20 crunchies are up simultaneously, which seems normal for the foam models. Mine, by the way, would be on the ground.

But I guess some governance will have to creep in sooner or later as the event right now, although great fun for the foamies, practically excludes the crunchy models. I'm sure everyone there would like to see some crunchy models - especially new ones - fly even though they mainly foam themselves.

How about this: Let's say an hour would be granted for the mouldies in the morning and maybe an hour in the afternoon. Then, maybe we could return to the old frequency peg days and have four or five tokens. The guys with the tokens are allowed to fly within a time limit, say 20 minutes, and the others queue. As you say quite correctly, we do not want to end up in a situation where there are too many expensive models all flying at the same time.

I suppose the other alternative is to declare the C&F an all-foam event and say that crunchies fly at their own risk. Period.

Would that work?

Cheers,

Doc.
 
Everyone flies at their own risk... regardless of time and place.

This is a fun fly - come and have fun.

I love flying my vintage, odd and combaters at Sunset. For go fast, the Los Banos event has more potential.

You can limit the flying all you like, and Sunset will still have mid airs due to the nature of the lift on this slope. If you are going to fly the energy belt at Sunset you will collect other planes. I have had at least 2 mid airs when only 3 planes were in the air, and not one of those planes were foam. Both were head ons that totalled the planes. Neither pilot saw the other plane.
 
Wayne said:
Everyone flies at their own risk... regardless of time and place.

This is a fun fly - come and have fun.

I love flying my vintage, odd and combaters at Sunset. For go fast, the Los Banos event has more potential.

You can limit the flying all you like, and Sunset will still have mid airs due to the nature of the lift on this slope. If you are going to fly the energy belt at Sunset you will collect other planes. I have had at least 2 mid airs when only 3 planes were in the air, and not one of those planes were foam. Both were head ons that totalled the planes. Neither pilot saw the other plane.
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Last year was sad but epic in the moldy on moldy action! Red’s Aeroic took out a jester if I remember correctly… 😬
 
Doc J said:
Nate - look out for a parcel coming your way; it's marked:

"NOTHING TO DO WITH AEROIC" and "DEFINITELY NOT A BOMB" - just to avoid confusion!

I look forward to seeing you, buddy!

Doc.
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Hey Doc! Glad to hear you’re gonna try to be at sunset this year! I won’t be the guy who travels the farthest to be there. 😂
If you send a care package to Nate would it be possible to get an elevator servo cover for the Sessanta in that package? The plane I got from Wayne last year just happened to have it missing. If not then no worries. 🤙🏽 camouflage yellow.
And how are you feeling after your surgery?
 
Hawaii Sloper said:
Hey Doc! Glad to hear you’re gonna try to be at sunset this year! I won’t be the guy who travels the farthest to be there. 😂
If you send a care package to Nate would it be possible to get an elevator servo cover for the Sessanta in that package? The plane I got from Wayne last year just happened to have it missing. If not then no worries. 🤙🏽 camouflage yellow.
And how are you feeling after your surgery?
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Hi Kelly - as was his post, my message to Nate was purely joking.

I'm feeling great. With the new artificial aortic valve, my heart function is up to 70%. Since the valve uses bovine tissue, you can call me Captain Beefheart! :eek:

Legs are next on the agenda.

I now have so much metal inside me that they will have to classify my grave as a mine!:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Yep, I'll be in the USA next year.

If you could send me your address in Hawaii by PM, I'll get you a yellow elevator servo cover sent.:)

Cheers,

Doc.
 
Junk wing plank ready for a battery. Now to get back to the p-38

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Diceman said:
So we have spoke about having a time to fly molded planes in the past, and we certainly can. But it would be the same amount of planes in the air, but all moldies! LOL. Then instead of hitting a foam plane, 2 moldies go down. $1500 + $1500. What would be best, is to limit the amount of planes up at a time, but that is too difficult to manage. We can always ask and see if everyone is good with that, but most people want to fly when the winds pick up because they have been waiting all day for the winds to hit. When I fly my moldies there, I look before I launch of course, then fly further out and stay further out from the hill. Even in the early years of this event, we had moldies hit each other with only 3-4 planes in the air. Wayne's fluffy bunny went in. I actually have the video of it from the air on one of my GoPro's, you can here the hit, but it flew just out of the view when it did.

Jeremy
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Of course there is still risk, but when I fly foam I for sure pay less attention to traffic than I do when I'm flying something else,. I know you do as well, I suspect many others do too. It just seems to me it would not to be too large of an ask for a couple "no combat" time slots, that ought to be enough. It has grown into a large enough event that some structure is warranted.
 

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