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  1. CatalinaWOW

    AMA and Multirotors

    Sorry about the above, I am still getting the hang of quoting on this site. Sorry Sleepy. I just assumed you knew that trying new stuff is risky legally. My kids and I toyed with the idea of commercial aerial photography using conventional R/C airframes but it didn't take much looking to...
  2. CatalinaWOW

    AMA and Multirotors

    Shaky in the sense that there was no established law that I have heard about on commercial operation of small remotely operated vehicles and potentially was violating established laws on operation of aircraft. Was operating something that seems like an aircraft or a model. AMA says if it is...
  3. CatalinaWOW

    Getting Kids involved in RC?

    Some may have noticed from other posts that I am more positive towards multi-rotors and FPV than many on these forums. I give you all just one guess where that comes from.
  4. CatalinaWOW

    AMA and Multirotors

    Sleepy, I feel your pain, but you have to admit you knew you were on shaky legal ground from the git-go. Pioneers are risk takers, and many end up wealthy. Unfortunately far more end up the other way. Hopefully the skies will open (in more than a metaphorical sense) and you can get back to...
  5. CatalinaWOW

    Getting Kids involved in RC?

    You may not be lucky enough that they fall in love with what you like. Maybe you will have to fall in love with one of their things. I never was much in to wheelin' until one of my kids took it up. The key is to be doing something with them. I've also found that you may have to wait years...
  6. CatalinaWOW

    AMA and Multirotors

    Totally agree. It's not the airframe, it's the application. Your giant Telemaster or Big Stik with BLOS gear is a bigger threat and bigger hazard than most of the multi-rotors. Those saying that our sport is about miniatures of real aircraft are also excluding most of the v wings, the flying...
  7. CatalinaWOW

    WTF?

    Since we all agree the 3% is chump change, it must be the arithmetic that is pissing you off. Otherwose it wouldn't be worth the blood pressure spike. Maybe it is the arithmetic that is getting to the sellers too. Kind of like income taxes. I don't much like paying them, but I despise the...
  8. CatalinaWOW

    12 volt Power Source for Field Charging

    A similar setup with larger batteries has kept a bunch of electric fliers in the air for a few years now in southern Arizona. The Harbor Freight panels may not be the most efficient, but it does the job and it is hard to beat the price for a panel/charge controller combo.
  9. CatalinaWOW

    Saw this today. Wow.

    ericb, I am not offended,and recognize that this question didn't come from GSN's beginners forum. But the beginners forum is where I found this thread. I think it makes perfect sense where Bartman has moved it. My only question now is why no one suggested that the solution to his problem is...
  10. CatalinaWOW

    Saw this today. Wow.

    Boy, way to make someone feel welcome in the beginners lounge. I know its all in fun, but WOW.
  11. CatalinaWOW

    AMA and Multirotors

    Those who are worried about drowning in a sea of multi-rotors should take a deep breath and chill out. It could happen, but I would bet against it. It is currently a fad, very hot. But we aren't drowning in pet rocks, cabbage patch dolls or PODS to mention a few earlier fads which threatened...
  12. CatalinaWOW

    AMA and Multirotors

    AMA and Multirotors In a discussion on the same topic in the other Giant website several full scale pilots cited the danger of collision with these "drones" as justification for banning them from the national airspace. To the best of my knowledge no one has been killed yet by a collision with...
  13. CatalinaWOW

    AMA and Multirotors

    I agree there is no need for new privacy laws. But lack of need has never trumped a politicians need to do something. Just as with GPS and FPV the only "benefit" of additional legislation is an attempt to prevent lawbreaking by elimination of the means to break laws. If we were all chained to...
  14. CatalinaWOW

    AMA and Multirotors

    While GPS and FPV are big issues, the other elephant in the room is the GoPro and the like. People are really scared of someone flying over and documenting what they are doing with the neighbors wife or daughter, or their special medicine crop or whatever. A lot of the municipal ordinances are...
  15. CatalinaWOW

    Another new site

    From everything I have seen it IS allowed, and that is one of the things that makes this site great. Good luck and have fun in the north. My old club had several Canadians in the winter when it wasn't flyable back home.
  16. CatalinaWOW

    Desert Aircraft vibes

    Depends on what is shaking. If it is bouncing on the gear it will get better in flight. Also RPMs change so you may be moving off a resonance. The biggest reason it gets "better" in flight is that it gets farther away, where we can't see or hear it as well. Sound falls off as the square of...
  17. CatalinaWOW

    Balance Stands

    If you have room for anything, you don't have enough toys. That said, you are right, those don't take up all that much room.
  18. CatalinaWOW

    Balance Stands

    The three scale method is a perfectly general way to balance an airframe, but if the airframe is fairly well laterally balanced (basically if it doesn't twist noticeably while sitting on its wheels) it can be simplified a lot, and requires only one scale to implement. You need to know the total...
  19. CatalinaWOW

    Desert Aircraft vibes

    Full scale aircraft designers spend quite a bit of time tuning designs so that airframe natural frequencies don't match sources of vibration (engines, wing vortexes, etc.). It isn't surprising that moving an engine from one airframe to another changes results. Since few, if any, of us have the...
  20. CatalinaWOW

    spammers

    Actually, sending them to ISIS is too nice. Staking out on anthills with honey sounds better to me. With medical care to make sure the experience lasts a long, long time.
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