A day of light wind slope soaring on the NE slope of Meio, near Caerphilly in S Wales.
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@edwojtecki385126 күн бұрын
The serenity of watching your plane fly on such a nice day takes me back to my days flying a Melora a dihedral plane with the same flight characteristics. Cheers
@PaulMacklinAmazing2 жыл бұрын
Marginal days can be some of the most enjoyable flying working the light lift. Beautiful vid.
@alistairclark68142 жыл бұрын
Definitely a pleasure when it stays up in light conditions. I am living vicariously through your videos during a Calgary snowstorm at the moment. Cheers from Canada!
@A470RCSoaring2 жыл бұрын
Yayyy Canada 🇨🇦 If you’ve looked closely at my cap you’ll see it’s a True North cap which I picked up in Vancouver in 2019. But I spent my early years growing up in Kingston On.
@susansinclair49142 ай бұрын
Great video that brought back memories. God knows how you got that piano up there though.
@davidmartin10935 ай бұрын
I remember a lovely Summer's evening flying from Kent's Holly Hill slope. It was nearing sunset past 9pm floating my Sunduster glider too and fro on the very light breeze seeing hot air balloons taking off from Leeds castle in the distance with their bright glowing intermittent burners going and gradually getting bigger and bigger in the sky. The orange from the sunset was lighting up the Sunduster's semi translucent tissue covering and for 20 minutes or so I created memories that will last the rest of my life. Great times. A very relaxing video thanks...👍
@user-qj4gd1qj8y3 ай бұрын
Love your style of flying. Keep it up !
@kartherton2 жыл бұрын
It looked like it might off been a good thermal day. Just look at them clouds. Perfect small isolated clouds. ☁️☁️☀️☁️☁️☁️. Keith. UK 🇬🇧
@anthonywatkins2783 Жыл бұрын
I use to fly slope as a teenager on the Westbury White Horse, always enjoyed flying in min wind conditions as it tested your model and flying ability, that was many many years ago, really enjoyed your video and love your BIrd Of TIme soarer. 👌👍
@A470RCSoaring Жыл бұрын
Thanks Anthony. You may have seen some of my other videos that feature my BoT also. Particularly the one where I’m flying with John Woodfield in Cornwall. Then there’s the series of micro BoT videos also.
@Marcoaiolfi742 жыл бұрын
Beautiful fly and beautiful heron, it'll be my next glider👍
@garryperrin24082 жыл бұрын
Beautiful place and plane!
@A470RCSoaring2 жыл бұрын
I’m very lucky to live where I do.
@martygoldman9217 Жыл бұрын
used to do this so long ago, was such fun watching this !... thank you !!
@A470RCSoaring Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
@jimmymustang72892 жыл бұрын
Nice filming. Quite excited about the MPX Heron. My first glider. Just bought one 2 weeks ago. I'm painting it for more visibility, should be ready next weekend.
@A470RCSoaring2 жыл бұрын
Enjoy the Heron, they fly well 👍
@CliffHarveyRCPlanes2 жыл бұрын
Nice Steve, at least ferns are soft, we have a lot of gorse as well on Dartmoor, now that's nasty stuff, looking forward to your next video 👍
@OliversAviationvideo2 жыл бұрын
Lovely flying spot.
@geordienufc31322 жыл бұрын
Good call to take a motorized plane along as well. Nice flights. The farm fields around our club field are usually planted with canola and boy is that stuff hard to walk through if I have a plane go down.
@riccojames12 жыл бұрын
2 of my favourite gliders
@jacobdavidcunningham1440 Жыл бұрын
nice view
@heartsoul43866 ай бұрын
Great! I see there is the Heron and the Solius. Which do you think is the better aircraft? I hear the Solius is quite arobatic, but is the heron also capable? I'm thinking of pure slope gliding in my case. Thanks!
@joobydooby9 ай бұрын
We used to have a standing joke about power off the slope - "Every launch, with motor on, causes the pilots balls to shrink ever-so-slightly, until eventually, they disappear..." ;-) Much prefer to chuck her off and fight for it, only giving in to the motor when admitting defeat!
@A470RCSoaring9 ай бұрын
😂
@bmpowellicio2 жыл бұрын
Yes the ferns have sprouted a lot in the last month. It wont be long before they are chest high and able to hide even the biggest and brightest plane. Extra caution needed.
@clubaeromodelismograncanaria2 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏
@steverobbins8952 жыл бұрын
Hi Steve how much nose weight have you got? Mine is around 333gms atm still playing about with it but we are getting there and loving it!
@A470RCSoaring2 жыл бұрын
I don't know Steve. I bought mine 2nd hand so it was almost ready to fly when I got it.
@steverobbins8952 жыл бұрын
Hi Steve looking at your micro bot series l can see that you don’t have to worry about the xtra weight too much the Thornberg design can obviously tolerate cg and nose weight extremes as he discusses on the original plans more weight means more speed on landing tho ! Thanks for your inspiring posts too
@stepheny6321 Жыл бұрын
Aren't the ferns called Bracken?
@A470RCSoaring Жыл бұрын
Maybe, although I thought bracken was stiffer & more robust. Not so good to land models in.
@petermach86352 жыл бұрын
I love spot and some nice flying but that green plague carries a risk of ticks, nasty little critters that carry all sorts of illnesses, some of 'em quite serious and longlasting ...... beware !