Comment on Free Talk Friday - December 5th, 2025
snooting@wetshav.ing 1 week agoDo you have pictures of before/after? Sounds like an awesome project.
I don’t think I realized that you fly RC planes. That’s awesome! What sort of planes do you fly?
I don’t have a “before” picture, but here’s the current state. We still have some final touches, like building a table to put chargers/batteries on. But this gives a good idea of what the final product will be like.
The old panel was located under the “Safety First” sign in between the studs.
This is nice. We do most of our flying at a sod farm in eastern PA. All battery charging comes from car batteries or from one of those portable chargers. A nice thing with gliders is that as you get better, there’s less time used on the electric motor which is the big current draw on an electric glider, and therefore fewer batteries to charge.
walden@wetshav.ing 1 week ago
Oh, and for airplanes right now I have an E-flite Ultimate 3D and a Sig Kadet LT-40 to teach people with (plus it’s fun to fly).
Until recently I had a 74” Extreme Flight Laser EXP with a 35cc gas engine. It’s in multiple pieces now because I crashed it!
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 1 week ago
I thought I would go down the 3D route, but for excitement, I still prefer screaming FPV quadcopters. The only problem with these is that I live next door to the most restricted air space in the world, and none of the local AMA clubs like people to fly quads.
walden@wetshav.ing 1 week ago
I think we allow quads and helicopters, but I’ve only seen a quadcopter flown to record fixed wings :-)
A helicopter guy showed up one day when I was there and at first I thought “hey cool”, but then I realized when they’re flying you can’t take off or land… they block the whole runway!
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 1 week ago
What’s fun with FPV quads is doing acrobatics at high speed near things. I like that, and I really like flying FPV through close terrain. Flying at a field is just boring, therefore, most of us guerilla fly. Because of this, I haven’t done it in a couple of years.
The guys who are good with helicopters are just scary. They typically do crazy 3D acrobatics a few feet from where they are standing on the field.
snooting@wetshav.ing 1 week ago
Very cool!