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“The Baltimore Area Soaring Society isan AMA sanctioned Club of approximately60 members, formed in 1980 toenjoy the pleasure of silent R/C flight.BASS is sanctioned by the Academy ofModel Aeronautics and is recognizedby AMA as a Gold Leader Club.“Almost all areas of silent flight arepursued within the Baltimore AreaSoaring Society. Our members participatein Thermal Soaring, Slope, HandLaunch and electric powered R/C. Ourmain purpose is to promote friendshipamong modelers and a better understandingof the construction andsuccessful operation of R/C sailplanesand electric aircraft.“Members enjoy the use of BASSsupplied equipment specific to thermalsoaring. BASS maintains both contestand sport winches, retrievers, winchbatteries, battery chargers, retrieverpole, frequency pins and relatedsupplies. In addition to this equipment,BASS even provides a “ClubTrainer” to allow newcomers toexperience the thrill of soaring. Membersalso receive the club newsletter,BASS News. This is published 11 timesa year and truly is the “InformationProvider to the Glider Guider”.The Baltimore Area Soaring Societyoperates two Flying Sites north ofMetropolitan Baltimore.“For additional information about theBaltimore Area Soaring Society, selecta member from our informationContact List.”The ‘Home’ page had a link under acategory called “FYI” that took me to a“Soaring Guide.” Written by Bradley J.Smith. “The R/C Soaring Guide”turned out to look more like a book,divided into 3 parts: Soaring forBeginners, Intermediate Soaring, andPlane Reviews. There are 11 chapters:An Overview of R/C Soaring, GettingStarted, Building your First Plane,Learning to Fly, Intermediate Equipment,Intermediate Trimming, IntermediateFlying, Intermediate Competition,Beginner Sailplanes, NostalgiaSailplanes, and Intermediate Sailplanes.It never ceases to amaze me thatthere’s so much information availablevia the World Wide Web. Unfortunately,I don’t have a lot of time to stopand review the information in-depth,such as Bradley’s “Guide.” For those ofyou interested in any of the subjects hecovers, please check it out!I plan to continue to visit web sites tosee how they’ve changed and whatinformation is available. If any of youhave a specific club or personal siteyou’d like to see covered, please let meknow! And, be sure to point out anyspecial information you’d like me toshare with all the readers!Happy Flying!Judy SlatesA MONTHLY LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF SAILPLANE ENTHUSIASTS EVERYWHERER/C Soaring Digest (RCSD) is a reader-written monthly publication for theR/C sailplane enthusiast. Published since 1984, RCSD is dedicated to thesharing of technical and educational information related to R/C soaring.RCSD encourages new ideas, thereby creating a forum where modelers canexchange concepts and share findings, from theory to practical application.Article topics include design and construction of RC sailplanes, kit reviews,airfoil data, sources of hard to find items, and discussions of various flyingtechniques, to name just a few. Photos and illustrations are always inabundance.There are RCSD subscribers worldwide.R/C Soaring Digest556 Funston DriveSanta Rosa, CA 95407e-mail: RCSDigest@aol.comhttp://www.b2streamlines.com/RCSD.htmlR/C Soaring Digest Subscription FormUSA: $30 First Class(CA res., please add $2.25 tax.)Canada & Mexico: $30 AirEurope/U.K.: $45 AirAsia/Africa/Pacific/Middle East: $52 AirCheck or Money Order, only, please. U.S. funds.Page 4Name_________________________________________Address___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________R/C Soaring Digest
It is my theory that learning newskills as a novice you see thingsmore critically than as a more experiencedperson. Eventually everythingbecomes so automatic that you reallydon’t think about what might havebeen a problem as a novice. For me,every slope flying session is a learningexperience. The following slope flyingtips might be helpful to you if you arefairly new to slope soaring.Think About Your Field of VisionMay 2003Slope Flying Tipsby Bill KuhlBkuhl@luminet.netThink about where you are standingon the hill and your field of vision. Forexample, don’t be standing so low onthe hill that in the course of a normallanding, your plane disappears fromsight on a normal landing. Alternatively,do not stand so far back on thetop of the hill that if your plane wouldsuddenly lose lift that it disappearsfrom your line of sight.Launch it HardLaunch your slope plane straightahead with plenty of force, especiallywhen there are strong gusts. Makesure the trim is correct with test glidesunder calmer conditions before tryingfull-force launches off the slope. Thehard launch makes the controls moreeffective quickly than when using awimpy launch.Don’t Get Caught in a Bad SpotWith strong, gusty wind it is importantto keep your plane flying as fast aspossible to keep it from being blownoff course. This can be especially bad ifyou are flying close to the hill in thedirection of other pilots or spectators.Keeping the Speed UpHow do you keep the speed up on aplane with no motor? Fly smooth,using minimal control inputs for wideturns, and minimal corrections. Whenyou have excessive altitude, this is agood time to point the nose down andtrade altitude for speed. At some pointit might be necessary to add ballast.Avoiding Mid-airsWhen several gliders are sharing arelatively small airspace, there isalways the chance for mid-air colli-sions. Funny, if you have ever flownslope combat, you know how hard itcan be to purposely collide with othergliders. Left to chance, mid-air collisionshappen much too frequent.Try to fly the same direction as most ofthe planes. Chances are that damagewill be way less in a collision with aplane going the same direction. Headoncollisions add the speed of bothplanes to the energy of the impact.At times I try to make a very quickglance to the opposite side of the slopeto gauge the altitude of other planes. Itry to adjust my altitude either higheror lower. Those planes could changealtitude but still I think chances arebetter they will still stay level and acollision will be avoided. If your planedoes collide with another, try to get thenose down to pick up speed rightaway and then try to roll away fromthe hill to regain altitude. In watchingvideo I had taken of a mid-air it wasinteresting to watch in slow-motionhow the planes were tumbling afterimpact. This is why it is important togain speed quickly to regain fullcontrol to pull out.See ya on the slope!SCHEDULE OF SPECIALEVENTSJuly 19-20, 2003Gamblers Gala TD Contest Gardnerville, NVLee Cox, lecofly@charter.net(775) 782-5443www.sierrasilentsoarers.comJuly 19-26, 2003AMA/LSF NATSMuncie, INOctober 10-11, 2003Texas National Tournament (TNT) Dallas, TXwww.SLNT.orgNovember 29-30, 2003Tangerine SoaringOrlando, FLChampionshipswww.orlandobuzzards.orgPlease send in yourscheduled 2003 eventsas they become available!GONESOARIN’ZIKAPage 5
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