martynk Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 A placeholder for the 7th 2M Hi-Start 14 day duration Challenge for 2020 Please submit your score below. The clock will start when the first score is submitted. This is a for fun challenge, anyone with a bungee-launched glider up to 2 metres wingspan and the standard Hi-Start can post a time. Object: Fly your 2 metre glider for as long as possible from a flat field, the person who's time is unbeaten for 14 days 'wins' and a new challenge starts. Rules: Launches must be made from the standard Challenge Hi-Start bungee. Flight times begin when line releases from the towhook and the model must land in the field for times to count. While the object is to encourage F3-RES types, any model up to 2 metre span may be flown (F3-RES, foam, full house aileron mouldie) but please state the type of model with your time. The standard Hi-Start bungee is a maximum of 10m of 6/4mm surgical tubing and 50m of static line (minimum 30lb breaking strain). Lighter/smaller bungee rubber may be used. Fly safely! No slope soaring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martynk Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 Managed to get out today. Waited until the power fliers had gone home and started flying at about 3:30pm. Despite the cold and drizzle (just ended as I started with the glider), the air was calm and quite buoyant. I had about 12 flights, 3 over 4 minutes, 5 between 3 and 4 minutes and the rest over 2 minutes. Really quite pleased as I was having to look for lift. Probably learnt more about reading the model in that one hour than the past 4 years.. Packed up when the sun came out briefly and the air went dead. Best flight 4:37 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cirrusRC Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 11 degrees, grey skies, no wind and no feathered friends. First fly of my XRES in ages. See my other thread for my DLG flight just before this one - insane for October. I was optimistic for a reasonable RES flight. 3rd launch off the high start - picked up some light lift and slowly worked it to 200 meters, switched to a different part of the sky and found some better lift until I topped out at 400 meters. Pretty uneventful compared to my DLG flight and fairly straight forward - the lift was smooth and consistent. At around 2:15pm the air went cooler and the lift evaporated, I searched around but didn't find anything. I came down pretty quickly after that. Chuffed for mid October to have such a good flight. I suspect this will be the last good thermal weekend of the year. David | XRES | 35 mins 12 seconds | October 17th 2020 Ignore the time scale - my TX reset back to the year 1999 and midnight for some reason. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martynk Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 Good grief, that is impressive. I thought I was doing well with almost 5 minutes... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Northiam Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Well done both not many good weather windows recently. I want to get up this coming week but I'm hampered by renovation work and tradespeople in the house. Fingers crossed for plasterers on a fine day! Meanwhile, in the garage... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martynk Posted November 8, 2020 Author Share Posted November 8, 2020 Apologies for the delay. Totally slipped my mind. David - CirrusRC won this. Table to be updated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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