More flying at the lake. This time the camera is mounted on a swivel mount on the side of the fuselage. The mount kept tilting right and down so this video sucks; a lot. At least it was a clear day and winds under 3 knots.
On-board video of my Hobbyzone Super Cub RC float plane flying from the lake at The Moors. Views of Opa-locka Airport (KOPF), SR828, Dade Christian Academy, Miami Lakes, Miami Gardens. The camera is a MD80/B001/YSB001 MiniDV camera from Hong Kong.
Went out again today and got more on-board video of my Hobbyzone Super Cub RC float plane flying from the lake at The Moors. I set up the camera on a wooden mount behind and 3 inches above the right float. I love the angle but the propeller kills it for me. I will not be using this location for the camera anymore.
I’ve added a few events coming to SFL in October, November and December. Included are the AMPS 50th Anniversary Festival on Halloween day and PBRCA’s Toys For Tots Fly-in in December. We can keep busy with other events like pylon racing and jets at Markham Park this November. Check it out in the Events Calendar.
In early September i took a trip to see some family in Northern Florida and I couldn’t waste the opportunity to fly in the countryside. I packed up the Super Cub and took her along for the ride. While up there, I had many smooth flights, including some of extended length due to a few thermals and well-placed winds. Here’s a video on-board the Cub on a very windy flight.
Twitter users and pilots: now we can all find events and set up meetings using our very own Twitter Group. The place is twitter.com/rcfinder and its purpose it to aid Florida Modelers in finding each other and setting up meeting at the spur of the moment. We can use our mobile devices to inquire to each other about when and where we’ll be flying or to sell parts and such.
I was flying at the park accross the street where I live, the park I fly at two or three times a week, when a Park Ranger approached me and said I couldn’t fly there. I thought he meant THERE: in the spot I was flying, because I had never flown there. So he then says “There are no RC planes allowed in the park.” I said “I fly here all the time and have seen clubs flying internal combustion planes here, too.” I was flying my HobbyZone Super Cub, a park flyer. He said NO RC PLANES at all allowed because of an incident that happened sometime in early May, 2009.
Apparently, a local RC club that had been allowed to fly at Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah, the field we fly out of, has been banned from flying there and, with them, every RC plane. The story is that one of their members flew a nitro airplane into a tree and, instead of getting a ladder or using some reasonable method to retrieve the aircraft, cut the tree down with a chainsaw. Now no one can fly there.
That sucks since there are NO PUBLIC FIELDS IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. If pilots fuck things up for others like this, we won’t be able to fly anywhere but private club-owned fields.
