Aloha and Welcome to my small speck of cyberspace! Dec 8, 2010 is the birth date of my blog. Never had one before, but my son encouraged me to have one, and it seemed like a good way to at least keep a log of my RC airplane building and flying. With the initial design kicked off by my son, I'll carry on from here and have fun with it. Now that I have it, I will use it to also keep track of my oil painting efforts, and any other ideas, hobbies, travels, or whatever else that come up. LIFE IS GOOD!

Update on 02/25/2011. It's been a few months since I began this blog, and I am enjoying creating and having it! I like documenting the things I have done in my hobbies, and sharing with my small family. I think Jer and Tad actually view it fairly regularly, as a means to see what I've been up to lately. At worst, it serves as a reference for my own use.

Update on 12/22/2011. This blog stuff is habit forming. My blog is a year old now, and I make an entry about every other day or so as that seems to be the frequency of doing something in one of my hobbies. Like my hobbies, this blog is a lot of fun, and it has become in itself another hobby that I enjoy.

Years are flying by...update on 01/11/2013. Still enjoying maintaining this blog even though hardly anyone sees it. I don't advertise it anywhere or to anyone, and it is mainly just a way for me to keep my own notes and thoughts on my flying, painting, and cars. If a stranger happens upon it, I think it is by pressing NEXT at the top of the current blog they are visiting, lol. It's a great device for me.

August 2014: still here! Took up flying RC helicopters one year ago and got hooked. Had flown micro Helis up to then, but got serious with 450 size for a couple months, then bought the Goblin 500 and Gaui X5 . Also got my Boxster in April 2013. Most importantly, Ariel was born 12/02/12 followed by Skylar 07/20/13, and they are little beacons of joy in our lives. Life is indeed good!!!

Saturday, August 20, 2011

KRCA Valley Challenge

On Oct 1, we will have the challenge pitting the top three finishers in each club's individual challenge contest against each other. Today we held the KRCA individual contest. Somehow I lucked out and came out on top, with 900 of a possible 1000 points. Ron finished 2nd with 800, and Joe beat out Jer in a tie-breaker fly off for 3rd place, both with 700. The Imagine 50 was pretty well suited to the 4 tasks we flew in 4 separate flights. At first I wished I had brought the SNAFU, but it turns out it could have been too slow for the timed flight through the gates at each end of the runway. I believe my only 100 pt deduction came for flying too fast on Task 2, where I had to complete two passes through the gates in 4 seconds each. The first pass was 3.8 seconds, the second was between 4 and 5 seconds, AOK. Anything can happen in the finals with different weather and wind conditions. We had about a 5mph crosswind out of the North today, and about 90F by the time we ended around 1PM. I will add a scan of the task directions given us at the pilot's briefing.

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