yes, the band sucks, but....
Ok, kinda click bait on the title, but the story worth reading!
Few weeks ago on a whatsapp group devoted to CL in Brazil a gentleman invited us for a local competition within 4 days. The goal was to have 3 categories> beginners ( take off, level flight, 45 degrees flight and landing), intermediate ( same + wing over, loop and inverted laps) and mini-fai ( all round figures of f2b pattern).
It was a 2 hour drive for me, i have just learnt the clover and i though, why not? I would only benefit of learning the trade of competition, tips, advice, and congregate with some virtual friends. I took my 2 practice planes, the e-power Holeshot and my glow slightly modified version named Holeshot Master.
To my surprise the Beginners had a lot of entrances, and when they started to arrive to the field, i was amazed how young they are!
i arrived a few hours early to test fly the Glow plane as she´s a better flier than the profile version. Upon take off on the first wingover/invert the engine was strange, when i recovered from the wing over the engine had a cut/start and i thought would be some dirty on the glow.....again on the vertical 8 same thing....but i was o competition mode and carry on. Halfway the clover the engine finally quit overhead and my 30 min daily runs on gym really payd up. after some frantic running i landed safely. Shaken from the incident i´ve found out that the tank top cap went away and the pressurized system was the culprit of my erratic flight. I must admit my weakness but i opted to go electric for the official flights
this first picture is the Beginners , girls from 10 up to gentlemen with 61!
this post will be updated , plese return for more. as the pictures are big i have to split posting