Great technique and video. I watch the launch frame by frame. You take a really wide stance before unwinding. I've learning more from this video than if I was there in person. If anyone deserves high frame rate slow motion video, it is you. Thanks for your efforts. My highest launch today.......58' !!!............from which I caught a thermal.
Very good, most helpful, I’m watching as much as I can before investing in a glider, 40 years powered model pilot, this is the most exiting next step, many thanks.
You make it look easy!,i am just so glad nobody watches me when i launch mine,i end up inverted,but practice makes perfect i guess,excellent tutorial thanks!
Skip miller also has some great dlg's. I'm just starting I'm flying a dream flight libelle it reads lift very well and climbs in the smallest lift of thermals but lacks penetration to fly upwind. Great video by the way learning to launch is very difficult its all about form and fallow through like a golf swing I'm still learning and hope to get a molded f3k bird soon.
Great video, thanks for teaching. I flew my first DLG flight (ever) today and ended up with broken fuselage =( . Sometimes it gets inverted when launch. I wonder, sir, how many DLG's have you already broken since day one before getting to be this good?
Interested in starting this. I noticed in all the launch videos I've seen the glider does a rapid ascent. Do you have a seperate mix switch to add in up elevator to do this and then switch off for normal flight? If so what % throw is it? Been flying models for 30years now and gliders have always been my favourite, most recently electric ones but this does look decent.
Hi, Use a preset in the elevator so it has some up in it. Tune the elevator in both phases (rotation and vertical) so it gives you the trajectory you want.
Hi Marcus, I had my first goes at DLG today :-) I love it! When I throw my plane straight it doesn't go up by itself and I always have to pull the elevator to make it gain height. Should the plane go up just by the ailerons or do you have some elevator in the launch mode as well? I have a Blaster 3
Hi Paul, You can get an MX-20 and all the accessories through Modelflight. You will find them on Google in South Australia and they have an excellent postal system all over the world
its to bad you have to do all that knee action for this aspect of the rc hobby.. i think id really enjoy gliders etc. but i have a bad knee, fake knee, etc and i just can not put any kind of load on my legs or ill end up in the hospital needing surgery. i am tempted getting a DLG and just throwing over hand may not get 200 feet or compete or anything but its about the only option i have. stay healthy kids, never know what hobby you may pickup where you need your body in good condition :D rock on from AZ.
Chris c. You can always use a high start to do this and best of all no twisting, a high start is old school , you can buy one on most any large Hobby retailer it's a string and rubber you stretch and hook to your glider and off you go, you will need to add a hook of sorts To the glider. Hope this helps
Hi Christophe, Unfortunately I do not know how to do subtitles on video's. I can only take then and upload them. Maybe someone can PM me. Sorry. Marcus
Hi Marcus ! There is a guy who is asking for subtitles on facebook.:-D Can You write something in the steps of the video, or a small text to explain important steps under the video frame ? Many thanks, and, holly sh..! what a launch !
Hi Marco, Sorry, I am not very good with RU-vid yet. I will try in the future. If you go to rcgroups under 'Launch Video - Comments please' you will find lots of info. I am called Machineman.
