Having a go at slope soaring! RC glider sloping conversion 

slope soaring is perhaps the most satisfying of all model aero pursuits. The fact that you're working with the natural 'free' energy coming from the lift of wind over the cliff powering the flight and the fact that you have to work within the paramaters of that lift/wind speed/ location etc and design your model for it make it a wonderful challenge. The other benefit is battery life, as you're only powering your rx and servos you can litterally fly for hours on one set of batteries (I think my record is around 3.5 hours) As I said below and other shave said too ballast on the cg is your friend in such a wind - you can really load up as long as your wings can take the load and your penetration will improve remarkably. What a great flying site - would love to make a trip to the IOW to fly planes!!! Thanks for posting - hope it goes well next time.

I think your children had as much fun as you. Great video

Sloping is very theroputic .. if you are finding it a bit windy for the model or there's a lot of lift ..use ballast on the cg ..in the wind and lift weight is ur friend to help with wind penetration ..speed.. just make sure the wing loading will handle the extra weight .. very nice video .. enjoyed 👍

Wow, excellent flying, looks really good fun!

I tried for a couple years, taking a slope soarer with me on every family trip. Than finally i got a maiden, than in the next 3 months after that i got like 3 more flights. Just getting that one flight in i finally understood the wind and location and what i had been doing wrong all those years. Now totally addicted. I switched over totally from powered to slope soaring.

Looks like you had fun which at the end of the day is what it’s all about. In that wind I would have been tempted to get some ballast in her for penetration Maybe up to 3lb under the C of G would have helped you out. It would have smoothed her out a lot but the speed would have increased massively. Don’t think gliders should always be light, penetration is a must. Hope this made sense. Regards Steve.

Looks like heaps of fun had by all. When I first sloped it was such a thrill that it was etched into my mind permanently. Judging by the wind on the day you could put around 150g-200g in ballast over the CG. And an addition 20g in the nose to force it to penetrate. Failing that the plane looks suited to wind around 6-8 knots. All the best with your endeavours. Allen

More weight in the nose is indicated. I fly slope off the coast of California and have added as much as a pound of led to get penetration in high wind.

Nice

Wish we had some decent slopes near me. Hope your doing ok.

Vertical cliffs are not the best place to learn sloping. You did well, but I think you now understand the need for ballast. And you really need to push through the wall to get to clean air. Great job though, most people would have destroyed their plane. I've destroyed a few of my own LOL. Your son seems to love watching your plane. Maybe time soon to put the controller in his hands.

Thats a britflight d-zee, it was my first plane around 10 years ago.

Nice video

at 3:18 it looks very much like your plane needs a TON more weight in it. If you cant nose down and push thru the wind, your too light.

you could have put a brick on it in that wind

This airplane is to light. Add ballast. Gain penetration.

Probably 2lb to light

awesome wk dude..this was ages ago so now i imagine ur addicted to slopeing now! lol... I love slope soaring, we get into combat slopeing too, check out mine here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H1iDIJQguqs.html ,..got a few more on my channel too if ur keen. anyways hope you've been back there and flown a heap more! cheers