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Thanks to Flash for finding this cool site that shows weather for Ashhurst area.

http://ashhurst.org/welcome/weather/

Hi Everybody

I have found a site that has effective and practical weather info for Ashhurst.  I have checked with flyers while they were at the field and the wind results are reliably correct.  

If you click on the “gauges” word at the bottom of the page you get live wind readings.  Well live within 30 seconds.  The best gauge is the 10 minute average wind speed gauge.  There is also a 10 minute average direction gauge. Depending on what web browser you use, you can either hover the mouse over the gauge or right click the gauge and you get the meaning and readings more clearly.

Try it out every time you go to the field as I would like to get some feed back.  Of course ideally if you have a phone that can access the web then you can confirm the readings for yourself while you are at the field as I have done.  As you continue to use the site you will become more familiar with the readings and their meanings in practical terms to you, for example the wind direction in relation to the field layout and so on. 

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If you are interested in learning more with out going to the expense of buying a plane, helicopter and radio gear, get in contact with us because we are more than happy to share our knowledge and experiences, and maybe a bunch of our time to show you how it all works and what its like. 

Or, pop into your local model shop and check out some serious gear.  Cheap stuff will cause you problems short and long term.  Better Quality gear tends to be easy and better to use adding to the fun of RC aircraft rather than buying yourself a bunch of someone elses problems - Go visit your local model shop and buy brand name gear.

Current club members will find updates and soon we will add a weather section (now added -look under instant WX on the menu).  Hopefully we can convince Michael to provide daily on the spot (since he is closest to the field) wind reports. Last reports are that he is 76 metres closer to the Ashhurst end of the runway than Don!

Please do be patient whilst we populate this site and check back often or at least make a RSS feed to us so that you can be kept informed of progress.

Watch this space as Mike promises to post photos and progress reports of his latest build project!

Catch you in the air.....  

The First Monthly club day went off with a bang yesterday with 14 members down flying.

The day started out well with a icey cold 3 degs before the sun came out with alight S.E winds.

Many thanks to Flash and national gas for supplying BBQ lunch and the limbo poles and yet  another show off with the pulse jet.

Please check out some of the videos of the day (links below)

Michael knife edging and cutting the ribbon camera 1  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXFdKzf7cKY
Michael Knife edging and cuttin the ribbon camera 2   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCJ4YKRhl7Q
Don landing his canary trainner dead stick                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyhjfu-FpLA
Flash thinking the camera was a better target than the limbo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g8EP2V7KUM

Will be great to see others out there next time even if you are not flying

This photo was taken before most people had arrived  around 11am 




Graham on the move




Flash and Don



Allan and michael checking out the limbo ribbon