January thaw.

I had figured that the snow would be gone by Sunday and I could get in some flying on the circle. I did dare to drive down so I walked. The ground was firm but muddy too. Tire tracks were visable without spinning so someone had made the trip. I brought the Yak-9 and after the hot water warm up it started on the first flip. The first flight was close to the last as the added spinner made control sluggish at best. I spread the lines at the handle and the second flight was a bit too sensitive. I took half that change out of the handle and the third flight was pretty good. I had forgot how to enter the maneuvers on the old time stunt schedule but stunbled through the pattern. When I got home I looked up the rules and the eights are done backwards. Instead of the plane pointing up in the horizontal eights it points down at the intersections. And it starts at the far loop with a 3/4 inside loop then a full outside loop and going on from there. It really is like doing a lazy eight which is what the pictorial view in the rules shows. But the description says the model should be pointed vertical at the intersection. I saw an ad for the Oct. contest in Baton Rouge and the profile event has been changed to everybody in the same class. It is figured that that will shorten the event but I don't think so. Maybe flying a different event at the same time on the other circle is the game changer. Crafty people those Southerners.