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In this week's show we are missing KarlK and IFLYOS, but we pick up some dude named "Cathead" to help fill in. We talk about our usual bunch of stuff - both on- and off-topic, including news items, and such. We also get into a little discussion on finding and setting the Center Of Gravity ('CG') on kits, ARFs, and Scratch-built designs. Also, we have an opportunity to visit with our buddy Vintauri about WATTS Over Owatonna, which is coming up very soon!

LINKS:

RACores GremTwin

Mac's B-29 Goes In (Vid by Blueray450)

eLearning Related to sUAS (April E.C. Minutes)

Finding CG Of A Scale Model Plane

Designing CG Using Moment Arms (Swarfer's site)

Flying Wing CG Calculator

Aircraft CG Calculator

Determining CG For A Well Flying Model

JOIN THE AMA!

Sign The Petition!

Respond To The FAA's Model Aircraft Ruling!

Write Your Congressmen/women! (Let 'em know you don't agree!)

This Week's Slideshow Pictures

In our 268th installment we talk about some upcoming events that you'll want to add to your schedule, and our buddy Eric Kendall comes on to talk about Wings For Wishes Montana!

We also cover a little news regarding the FAA's new 'Interpretation' of what constitutes Model Aviation.

LINKS:

Laine's RCG Blog

Castle Creations Vertigo Motors (Not just for helicopters!)

GWS Best Pilot Contest (Laine wants your vote!)

New Lemon 7ch Rx With Satellite And Stabilization

Wings For Wishes Montana (DONATION link and Facebook Page)

WATTS Over Owatonna

RCEFF

WFC's Electric Fun Fly & Airshow

Youth Day At CARDS Field

ATTF Back With WATTS Discussion (Show #289)

RCHangarTime Podcast Is Back!

Download RCRN's 7/1/14 Show! (With AMA's Rich and Dave)

Flite Test Weighs In On FAA FPV Ban

EAA Reviewing FAA's Proposed Model Aircraft Policy

JOIN THE AMA!

Sign The Petition!

RESPOND To The FAA's Model Aircraft Ruling

WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN/WOMEN (Let 'em know you don't agree!)

This Week's Slideshow Pictures

This week we continue with the fight to persuade all of you to unite and let the FAA know that we disapprove their new "Interpretation" of the Special Rule For Model Aviation. As well, we have a special guest on the show that brings a unique perspective to this issue, in that he is a full-scale pilot AND one of the early adopters of the FPV game.

We here at TheCrashCast urge all of you, whether you're FPV'ers or not, to help us in this fight by signing the online petition and voicing a pro-AMA stance against the FAA's ruling. My concern is that if they can take FPV away from us (FPV in the SAFE way that AMA has layed out), then how long will it be before they take away ALL of our model aviation rights?

LINKS:

e-Flite Apprentice

HobbyZone Corsair With SAFE

Tornado Frames Hurricane 4PQ

Pilatus Porter Kit

Corrugated Paper VR Headset?

RTFQs Mini 4-in-1 12 amp ESC

WMPF 4th Of July FreeFoam SALE! (July 3-6 only!)

Model Aviation Mentors Program

WATTS Fly-In (Still Time To Register Online!)

Bruce's Very Well-Worded Rant (Excellent points made!)

AMA Government Relations Blog

Daily Tech News Show (5:29 - 10:50)

Respond To FAA's Ruling!

Sign FPV America's Petition!

Okay, so our Academy Of Model Aeronautics has been working diligently with the FAA to ensure that our flying hobby is protected. The AMA has set up Safety Guidelines for us to follow, both with regular RC Flight and FPV Flight, and with those guidelines in place, there have been no reported issues. This proves that model aviation, under the self policing practices of our membership, and through the guidance of the AMA, is a safe activity.

That is, until yesterday. The FAA has decided to 're-interpret' what consitutes the Special Rule For Model Aircraft, a rule that was originally written in to pretty much allow us to continue to govern ourselves by the guidelines established by the AMA, thus exempting our hobby from FAA scrutinization. As it stands now, the FAA has pretty much put the screws to us, banning FPV!

This is the main focus of this show. Compared to everyone in the United States, those of us that are affected by this fiasco are an extreme minority. Therefore, now is the time to back the AMA and look to their guidance as to how we should collectively respond. If you are NOT an AMA member, or have let that membership lapse, NOW IS THE TIME TO JOIN!! The only chance we have to defeat this thing is to do it by being a unified, uniform, collective group. While we're are waiting for AMA's plan to be revealed, I urge ALL OF YOU to become aware of your State's Senators and Representatives and be prepared to let them all know how you feel about our hobby being taken away from us, those that have followed the rules, by those few bad examples promoted by even worse media!

LINKS:

Get Your Wings For Wishes Shirt (Only a few days left!!)

Sawatt's 2014 Warwick Photos

AJ Aircraft (230Z Coming soon!)

WMPF (Watch for special sale starting July 2nd!)

FAST Helicopters!

FAA Press Release

FAA's Interpretation Of The Special Rule For Model Aircraft

AMA's Response To FAA's Interpretation

JOIN THE AMA! 

This Week's SlideShow Pics

In this 265th installment of our show we talk about all kinds of stuff, and some of it is even RC-related! Thanks go out to our buddy Shadow102 for popping on to share his experiences at the 4th Annual Pecan Patch FPV Meet!

LINKS:

Wings For Wishes Montana IV

Buy A WFW T-Shirt! (Hurry! The clock is ticking!!)

RCTS Fun Fly (I'm gonna attend this one!)

Korey's Pecan Patch FPV Meet Videos:

   Playing In The Trees

   Part 1

   Carts, Wings, And Full Scale - Oh, My!

Bigger Than Life - Ice Caves (BEAUTIFUL FPV Vid!)

WeatherFlow Anemometer

8 Reasons Children From The 70's Should Be Dead (LoL)

Skylark Tiny OSD III

This Week's Slideshow Pics

It would probably be easier to write here about what we DIDN'T talk about in this show, rather than what we did talk about. LoL We cover all kinds of fun stuff in this 264th show. Good luck with keeping up with this one!

LINKS:

Who Owns The Air?

EastBayRC OPQ

RealFlight Mobile

RAMS Dragon Fly (July 11th-13th)

Heli Extravaganza At Triple Tree (Sept. 19th-21st)

Quanum DIY FPV Goggles With Monitor

RoboFlight/Ritewing Partnership!

In this 263rd installment, we get to hear all about Karl's trip to the Wings For Wishes Washington event last weekend, and how one person can can destroy a young man's dreams by simply adding an extra cell to his battery. LoL

LINKS:

Wasp 280

Libelle DLG

Keep Mike's Open! (Video)

Mike's Hobby Shop (Sign The Petition!)

This Week's Slideshow Pics

In this week's show, we dip into the mail bag and do our best to answer some listener emails that have been lingering for a while. There's some discussion on safely parallel charging your LiPos, some Taranis info, and even some advice on getting a listener started in Multi-Rotor FPV.

LINKS:

Observer FPV Frame

MicroBurst 220 Frame

RMRC Pico FPV Combo

Watts Over Owatonna!

Be-Be Norman

Radd's School Of Rotary Flight

This Week's Slideshow Pics

The 'theme' for this week's slideshow (shown during our live stream) turned out to be detailed pictures of the cool stuff we all rounded up for our Veteran from our "Help A Vet" project. I am happy to report that three packages are in transit and should arrive soon!

My sincerest THANKS!! goes out to all the kind people that helped with this project. As discussed in the show, there were many things offered up that we chose NOT to accept for this package, and I would like that offer my THANKS for those offers, as well. Had we accepted everything, I think it would have taken an entire truck to deliver it all!! LoL

This week we get a chance to help someone out with an interesting project aimed at satisfying his collegiate requirements. Our friend Willmsy decided to take on the task of building his first Multi-Rotor aircraft and set it up with his first FPV system. The end result is to have a UAV that can be used as a tool for Search And Rescue applications. Join us as we do our best to offer up options and considerations to Willmsy on the interesting project!

LINKS:

WFW WA

WFW MT

WATTS Over Owatonna

4th Annual FPV Fly-In At The Pecan Patch

Garmin Releases A Contender

Another Full Scale Electric

FPV250 V2 Frame

Scratch-built H Quad Frame (Hard to beat this option!)

FPV Gear In One Easy Purchase

Groundstation DVR

MWC Pro 2 With GPS

In this 260th installment of the show, we step up on our soapbox for a bit regarding all that is going on today between modelers and the FAA. Now is the time for us to pull together and inform people what our hobby is all about, rather than letting the misleading mainstream media do it in their most sensationalistic way possible (Ewww! Scary Drones!).

LINKS:

SPADFest 2014

Interesting Tx Concepts

Live Webcam From ISS

Helicopter Physics Video Series

Parallax Plans

Something's Fishy In Florida...

New York Incident (and HERE with Video)

FAA Mythbusters

Mashable Article On Drone Laws

Drone Law Journal

These are the two links I forgot to include in last week's show notes:  Bobby's Charging Station (that I am copying) and the RCHN How To: Setting Up The HP DPS-1200FB Power Supply