Uhhh?
Perhaps Garf was saying:
How do I pick up my model and take it back to the stooge without dragging my lines either through the grass or across a gritty hard tarmac or cement without wearing or damaging the lines.
So much depends on the surface?
I don't know bout'chew' you guys..but when flying alone on a hard tarmac only...I would simply drop an old phillips screwdriver near the center of a cement or tarmac flight circle.
Check to see if I could find the holes that I had carefully drilled into the tarmac...when no one, especially the Boeing Security guard staff was looking.
I GOT CAUGHT JUST ONCE!
Drill a nice fitting hole..(usually on that old Space Center lot, it was already full of previously drilled holes by other stunt grunters doin their round round round thang.
It was rather important however, If I could make it within a reasonably short distance on the landing...
I would simply walk over and pick up the phillips...LOOK FOR PRYING EYES.. and quickly "stick it into a very well camay'ised hole" that the circle center.
Walk over, pick up the handle, place the saftey strap or handle..Walk back to the model... Pull the slack out of the lines...Carefully pick up the model, just enough pressure to get them up and off the cement.
LOOK AGAIN FOR PRYING EYES.., while walking the short distance back to your stoog?
YOU SHOULD BE "GOOD TO GO AGAIN?"
Actually, I practiced very seldom on grass...so I never really gave it much thought about grass fields due to the ease of whippin the model as most contests are flown on black top. NO BIG DEAL? Not true....Especially if your next contest happens to be on grass.
Practice makes perfect and sooooooooooo many great black top flyers have lost soooo many events...simply because their lack of practicing their ability to fly off and onto grass.
No matter how beautifully they fly the rest of the pattern...with the high quality of competition fliers...if they haven't done their home work by practicing on the surface that they will be flying the even on. Be it GRASS, OR HARD TARMAC, will often be the difference from winning or not placing at all.
HOWEVER....MORE IMPORTANTLY ON GRASS!!!
I alway tried to MAKE CERTAIN...that I wacked all the old dandy-do-da-day lion & weed tassles away, at least from the immediate take-off zone.
Which then would make it quite an easy task by just simply picking the model up, carefully head or should high and DRAAAAGUM' back to the stooge with no harm done.
Some flyers use that stoog as a landing target...and hopefully learn to touch down just beyond the stoog and not IN FRONT OF IT!
(Hey...I have repaired more than my share of purty wheel pants and landing gear fairings due to my serious lack of ability to judge distance! OUCH!
"WHO PUT THAT FLYING BOX...RIGHT IN THE LANDING PATH??...OPPS! OK! I remember n~
Shultzie,,
Dandilions is a 2 four letter words, I have no fondness for the little bas***s after Portland last weekend! Stupid things cost me my best ever flying plane,, ask Randy he was there!
another lesson learned,, another plane lost!!!!!!!!!!!
Let me say this with clarity!!!!! THOSE LITTLE DANDYLIONS SUCKUTH!
Yes, I read about your loss of a beautiful work of sky art! Just thinking about that PUCKERS MY LITTLE....UNDERPANTIES IN A KNOT!