Click logo to return to home page. ]

 
Home>Forums>Site Polls>Runway surfaces Post Reply   New Topic   
Forum Jump 3 Pages 1 2 3
] ] ]
]
Poll Question : What type of surface do you fly off most of the time
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
164 [ 24.55% ]
468 [ 70.06% ]
36 [ 5.39% ]
You can not vote in this poll
]
] ]
] ] ]
]
Author / Post
Avatar User Offline Admin
Admin Group
Admin Group
RCSB Owner/Founder 		Joined: July/22/2003
National Flag of United States United States
Posts: 5295
IP Logged
Posted: January/19/2011 at 10:44am  Quote
 
What type of surface do you fly off or the majority of the time?

__________________
Mike Chilson,
RCSB Owner/Founder
--------------------
Update Your Browser!


 
Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search  Web 
 
Avatar User Online Sparky
Lifetime Site Supporter
Lifetime Site Supporter
Head Curmudgeon 		Joined: February/10/2004
National Flag of United States United States
Posts: 7111
IP Logged
Posted: January/19/2011 at 2:59pm  Quote
 
Grass then wood for indoor flying then on rare occasion hard top.
Easy stopping don't skin up wing tips for the occasional oops!
taildraggers are less likely to ground loop.
I prefer the close cut grass on our clubs field over any other surface.
Here in south central Indiana I love to go barefoot while I am
enjoying a flight.
Sparky
 
Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search 
 
Avatar User Offline scalebirdman
Lifetime Site Supporter
Lifetime Site Supporter
idahoscale 		Joined: March/26/2004
National Flag of United States United States
Posts: 668
IP Logged
Posted: January/19/2011 at 3:01pm  Quote
 
Our field has both grass and asphalt runways... Grass is much less exciting to fly off of and land on than the asphalt.

__________________
Robert Terhune
In the box: Seagull Grand Caravan, Phoenix Spitfire, TopRC T-28

Building HS-123, XP-67
Assembling H9 OV-10
Flying AF Mig-17, AF T-45, TF 190, Seagull PT-22, H9 T-28 2.0
 
Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search 
 
Avatar User Offline Vicar
Lifetime Site Supporter
Lifetime Site Supporter
South Miami, FL 		Joined: June/22/2005
National Flag of United States United States
Posts: 1863
IP Logged
Posted: January/20/2011 at 9:12am  Quote
 

My field runways are Bermuda grass (golf course type) cut very short. IMHO, it provides the best of both worlds, the grass is very forgiving in terms of damage in case of "hard" landings. Because it is cut very short it also provides the feel of a hard surface like asphalt.

The only draw back is that it requires a lot of maintenance and expensive equipment... regular fertilization, weed killing, a reel mower...



__________________
Vicar
South Miami, FL

Flying: Bellanca XR-3, Fleet
Bench: PC-6
Pending: Stampe, Spacewalker
What to do: Morrisey Bravo
 
Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search  Web 
 
Avatar User Offline Henri
Site Supporter
Site Supporter
 Joined: December/29/2003
National Flag of Netherlands Netherlands
Posts: 1057
IP Logged
Posted: January/21/2011 at 3:56pm  Quote
 
Who wants to spend a sunny weekend standing on hot concrete? 
 
Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search  Web 
 
Avatar User Offline jerrybates
Supporting Vendor
Supporting Vendor
 Joined: September/13/2003
National Flag of United States United States
Posts: 1312
IP Logged
Posted: January/27/2011 at 3:21pm  Quote
 
I normally take off from aspahlt and seems to often land on wood.... Freakin trees!

__________________
Jerry Bates
Jerry Bates Plans
https://www.jbplans.com

 
Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search  Web 
 
Avatar User Offline mikecw720623
Lifetime Site Supporter
Lifetime Site Supporter
 Joined: December/06/2007
National Flag of South Africa South Africa
Posts: 323
IP Logged
Posted: January/28/2011 at 1:09am  Quote
 
very good Jerry i have a simler problem exept mine is with wire cables.

__________________
Mike Whittal
My Email

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss
 
Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search 
 
Avatar User Offline Bauer66
Site Supporter
Site Supporter
 Joined: December/05/2010
National Flag of United States United States
Posts: 69
IP Logged
Posted: January/28/2011 at 10:26am  Quote
 
Anything my Plane comes down safely on
 
Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search 
 
 ]
] ]
Forum Jump 3 Pages 1 2 3

 

  Post Reply   New Topic   

] ] ]
]
   ]
Similar topics you might be interested in...
Building surfaces?
new source
Control Surfaces
SisT control surfaces
 You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
]
] ]

Home Icon Portal Home   Forum Icon Forum Home   Forum Icon Your Privacy

Copyright © 2003-2024, RCSCALEBUILDER.COM, All Rights Reserved