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Thank you Coach Brian and Coach Chuck for your responses. It is very helpful. The projects you mentioned seem to be lots of fun. Another thing we learned from EWS is that knowing what to do is very different from actually doing it. New problems always seem to come up unexpectedly when we actually ...

Thank you Coach Brian for sharing your meticulously planned procedures using the 10-min event window. It is very revealing even though we will have to practice it next time. We finished our state tournament this past Saturday. Our EWS was disappointing to say the least with both flights hit the ...

Thanks to Coach Brian and Coach Chuck. That is very valuable advice. Thank you so much for sharing. We were counting on the practice flights to fly first time in a ceiling height of 8M. We have been struggling with the extra low ceiling and venting issues. Seems that we are heading into un-chartered ...

We are heading to states this weekend. I have never been to any build event at any tournament (EWS is a state only event for us), so I am wondering for the 1-hour practice flight window we are given, how are we going to practice? At a maximum, there could be 48 planes or more (EWS and WS) at the ...

Hi Coach Chuck,

Thank you very much for your response with regard to cap discharge. First of all, we used your method (metal tweezers) all along and sometimes even just to demonstrate the discharge on a time charged (a few seconds) capacitor (~ 1.7v). So far none of our capacitors are damaged ...

Please pardon me for my ignorance. I think I read/heard somewhere that you can use metal tweezers to short the capacitor after the airplane landed but the propeller was still spinning due to some voltage left on the capacitor. I am just told that it is a no-no to short a capacitor. Which is the ...

Hi Coach Jeff,

Thank you so much for taking time and effort in replying and sharing your experience and insight. It is most helpful and deeply appreciated.

We flew this afternoon. With the day getting warmer, we could hear the humming of the AC and cool air coming from the vents. We were told that there was no way to turn it off. We could barely practice because the AC just threw the plane in distress. Our flight path was much more predictable earlier ...

I am very curious to know how much everybody's airplane weighs. One of ours weighs 10.00 g and the other weighs 10.18 because of the heavier power system. Both are overweight. For the second one, the power system weighs more than the airplane by about 0.4g. How can we reduce the weight of the power ...

Hi Coach Chuck,

Thanks for answering my question on quick climb vs slow climb. I just noticed that the motor on the slow climb plane was accidentally installed with a slight "down thrust". I wonder if that's the reason for the slow climb, which worked out well in our case because we were flying in ...