Re: Invitation to ISA Nostalgia Day Saturday September 14th
Posted: 18 Sep 2019, 12:14
I too had a pleasant day on the slope for the ISA Nostalgia day. The ISA members were most welcoming and as friendly a bunch as you'll find.
It was a real shame that there was so little wind, most of us (including the ISA members) didn't bring along the style of models that we had hoped to. Most of us brought along a thermal soarer from the '80s or '90s and there were only a few dedicated slope soarers. And it wasn't like a "Ponty meeting" where many models are built for the event, the ISA idea of nostalgia is to bring along models they used to fly, but have pensioned off. Saying which I can hardly talk as I brought along my Soaron Sunshine 100S glider from 1983 that I hadn't flown since the mid '90s. It still had its original Fleet SCR1's servos fitted when I got it out of the loft
The exception to this was Nick who'd seen the weather forecast for light winds and had built his 'Zeitgeist' in the week leading up-to the Nostalgia day and had only finished it in the early hours of the morning. He had a few friendly jibes made about it being made of depron, but he had the last laugh as it comfortably out-soared everything in the conditions, including my modern Elf dlg. When the wind stopped blowing (which it frequently did), we were all retrieving from the bottom of the slope, while Nick was still flying! I had a quick fly of the Zeitgeist and it was quite incredible that you could do tight, flat turns with just rudder, without losing height. I don't think I touched the elevator the whole time.
Most models still had their 35MHz gear fitted and I can't remember a recent meet where there were so many long aerials extended. In fact, most of the ISA members weren't that interested in Phil's OS Pixie and RCS Reed set conversions or my Min-X GG and Skyleader SLX conversions as they had been modified. I think Paul's converted Gold Wing set fooled them all as he has the 2.4GHz antenna hidden in a frequency pendant and a few commented it was good to see him flying on 35MHz. Nobody asked where his frequency peg was...
Phil took far better photo's than me, so I'll only add a few extra.
Mike
It was a real shame that there was so little wind, most of us (including the ISA members) didn't bring along the style of models that we had hoped to. Most of us brought along a thermal soarer from the '80s or '90s and there were only a few dedicated slope soarers. And it wasn't like a "Ponty meeting" where many models are built for the event, the ISA idea of nostalgia is to bring along models they used to fly, but have pensioned off. Saying which I can hardly talk as I brought along my Soaron Sunshine 100S glider from 1983 that I hadn't flown since the mid '90s. It still had its original Fleet SCR1's servos fitted when I got it out of the loft
The exception to this was Nick who'd seen the weather forecast for light winds and had built his 'Zeitgeist' in the week leading up-to the Nostalgia day and had only finished it in the early hours of the morning. He had a few friendly jibes made about it being made of depron, but he had the last laugh as it comfortably out-soared everything in the conditions, including my modern Elf dlg. When the wind stopped blowing (which it frequently did), we were all retrieving from the bottom of the slope, while Nick was still flying! I had a quick fly of the Zeitgeist and it was quite incredible that you could do tight, flat turns with just rudder, without losing height. I don't think I touched the elevator the whole time.
Most models still had their 35MHz gear fitted and I can't remember a recent meet where there were so many long aerials extended. In fact, most of the ISA members weren't that interested in Phil's OS Pixie and RCS Reed set conversions or my Min-X GG and Skyleader SLX conversions as they had been modified. I think Paul's converted Gold Wing set fooled them all as he has the 2.4GHz antenna hidden in a frequency pendant and a few commented it was good to see him flying on 35MHz. Nobody asked where his frequency peg was...
Phil took far better photo's than me, so I'll only add a few extra.
Mike