Flying In Turbulence With The BAMF2
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Navigating the massive sink between thermals are frustrating, but makes catching that next piece of lift so much more rewarding. I'm doing some light practice with my BAMF 2 DLG. Discus launch gliders are unpowered RC gliders that are thrown into the air like a discus, and rely on rising warm air - thermals - to climb while flying.
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That was fun to watch. Must admit I'm not at all a fan of rudderless on this machine. That glider needs it for smooth efficient flight, IMO.
Flying well with rudderless is no problem; Switching back and forth between ruddered/rudderless has become a bit annoying, as the way I would enter the turn is a bit different.
@@ArmSoar Yeah, I totally what you're saying about you needing to adapt, but I'm referring to how the model is handling rather than your flying. It just doesn't look as good or as efficient as one with rudder.
F5j competition ,perfect landing 😜🤘
That's exactly what I was going for ;) haha
Thank you Thomas! I enjoy seeing an example of how to find lift in turbulence. We usually have pretty good wind around here and it's nice to hear your commentary giving the play by play about what type of air you are encountering, what the dlg is doing etc. Why go rudderless? With the lightweight of airframes today, I am all too often adding ballast, seems to me a rudder just gives you more options both, up in the air and on approach.
I have to say, at 11:41 on the right side of the screen there something zooming across the sky! Maybe one of those sphere things? Or some visual anomaly? Anyways it was moving fast! Right when you say "backwards", it enters at the very upper right of screen traveling out and away.
I'm glad to like it! As we get out of summer, conditions here will become darker and windier (and much more wet!), so we will have a lot more windy/turbulence flying videos soon.
Rudder does give you more options; I've always been a fan of simplicity, we try to build in simplicity into all of our models, and personally I really like the way rudderless DLGs fly. It's not really about weight savings nowadays, planes are light enough as you said. To me it's just simplicity in structure and flying.
With that being said, I'm just about to maiden my next BAMF 2 and this one has a rudder. I've been flying a lot of different models recently and switching between rudder/rudderless sometimes takes a bit of time to process in my head.
I couldn't see the UFO, haha :P
@@ArmSoar Hi Thomas it's def there. It is moving so fast it takes less than a second to travel out of view. Listen for "over rotated" THEN train your eye to the upper right corner before it appears. Right when you say "backwards" it appears in the upper right corner of the view and travels down and slightly towards the center of are view which is out and away if you get my meaning. It is sort of transparent yet metallic and sort of pulsing. Somewhat resembling a sphere. If you glance at the DLG you'll miss it! LOL. 11:38 is a bit before you say "rotated". Prob hard to see on tablet or phone. HD on desktop
Ballast would have made things so much easier :) why is it always windy when I forget to bring ballast?
I just returned from a session with my Deviant and similar sink conditions. Some of the shortest flights I've had. Since I'm a newb I didn't really realize the glide ratio could look more like an elevator making it's way down to the first floor :-) Felt like it was good practice though...
It's quite frustrating when you're on the ground in 30 seconds! But once you fly it more, you'll know when to push, how much to push, etc... and you'll become a much better pilot in those conditions. Keep at it buddy!
I really like your explanation of assessing where the thermal might be by using the wind direction when it is different to the normal direction and how the string is pulling say to the left more. In your past videos I have noticed you have just looked at the string and said oh the thermal is over there. Could you add more explanation of where you think the thermals may be by explaining the indicators you use? Thank you in advance. I also like your mistakes. It makes me feel better that other people make the same mistakes or are just not perfect all the time.
I'm planning on doing a RC Glider Basics video on thermal basics, and I can cover that with a bit more clarity in that format.
It's good to hear that you're enjoying the videos that shows my mistakes and flying in harder conditions. I was worried that viewers might not enjoy it, but I think there's a lot to learn for both the viewers and myself when I show and highlight the things I'm doing wrong or not doing well. We can't have every video just skying out now... can we? Haha
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this I found was an interesting observational video on thermals.
what measure of differential millimeters are you using? up down thaks
Always fun the air just says "no"
Got to learn to say “yes” when the air says “no”! I’m still working on that… 🥲
@@ArmSoar yeah you gotta be so fast to react, I sneezed once in slope lift on a sand dune and that was enough time with my eyes off the plane for the next thing I saw to be the plane coming twords the base of the dune, idk how it all of a sudden had basically done a 180 but there was just no recovering it and although I did soften the landing, it still went nose first into the sand which sucked because it was a powered glider, that motor took a while to clean out and get freely spinning again. But it's all still a good learning experience, next time I'm about to sneeze and I'm flying a powered glider, I'm gonna power out away from the slope so random crazy turbulence doesn't ruin my day.
I would love to see more instructional flights like this. 4k helps a lot. What camera are you using for the videos?
Thanks! We’ll be doing more once it stops raining :)
For the flying videos we’re just filming with an iPhone 11, need to save up for better gear!!
@@ArmSoar iPhone 11 video looks great to me. Phones have come a long way.
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What is a”hold”
A hold is consecutive frame losses.
Hey - why you copying my signature landing?
I had to do some structural testing 🤣
@@ArmSoar Lolol!
there tough
I don’t see any damage after the visual inspection, but I’ll go throw it today and if there’s any damage I missed…. The throw will find it for us 🤣