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I don't mind 5mph...I can even handle gusts of 10 - 12 mph here and there...just hate seeing forecasts for 10 - 20mph winds for the day...been happening frequently the last few weeks here
Mine look more like I dropped a thin brick off my balcony!
I'll have to work on my technique!
It's always tough flying these birds, but its better to have a foamy bird than building and covering a balsa rc kit, getting ready to fly it, chucking it in the air, and forgetting to raise your futaba antenna in the air and watching 100 hours of labor turning to shrapnel. You are blessed with modern technology and easy repairs, and they are pretty cheap. And when you get the groove, you will be hooked.Mine look more like I dropped a thin brick off my balcony!
Its been oddly windy in the last 3 years. My buddy in Oklahoma has a 3d 4stroke nitro bird that he can fly in high winds but wont. He has a full sized timber ex and its too windy, same down here in DFW, been a bummer.
Yeup, the first crash alway ends it for beginners. I took 5 different people to get me interested, and after a full solo on that mini cub and the duette, I got hooked. I think I have 7 foamies and one nitro that I re skinned and kitted out. It was used, so I left the carb settings alone, it fired right up and ran like a charm...Keeper for sure. The the foamies are genius for sure.When I was younger and much less handsome than I am today...
A friend had built a balsa and monocoat contraption.
Its was supposed to look like a plane but too many "noob" mistakes... months of 1 step up and 2 steps back... riding miles on our bicycles to the hobby shop, building on a "kid's budget".
Finally a LHS took mercy (and a pile of cash) and got it functioning for him.
We bought it to a field where it gracefully took off and slammed directly into the grass. End of plane. End of my interest.
When I was younger than that, Cox tether planes did ok. Had a helicopter up and land about 500yards from the house after it broke loose once.
The drones can hut the ground and not turn to a fine powder.
That has my interest again!
Flying a mini drone by sight has its own challenges too...
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What Doom says, and I will just add, to answer your question: It's "too much wind" when you think it's too much. Not what your buddies say, but what YOU are comfortable flying in. Depends on your skill level and the particular plane. Remember, it's your plane that you might lose or crash, so make your own judgment. Today I went to a nearby field and the wind sock was standing horizontal and changing direction all over the place. Wind, according to the weather report, was ~ 15 - 25 mph. I simply left. My Aeroscout struggles in that much wind, and I am relatively new to flying. Could I have handled it? I think so. But it wouldn't have been fun, and it wasn't worth the risk to me. There is no set answer to your question -- You have to decide that.
I never even thought about taking my Kestrel with me to the airfield lol, I should do that..
Cool gadget!!!
I feel ya, been experiencing the same recently...it's never as it seems once you get out there
