June 2018 Next Meeting: June 20 th, 2018 AMA Chartered Club # 139 Web Site: http://flypcc.org/ P.O. Box 812, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 President Dave Mosher 650-255-3266 dmosher@airasys.com Vice President/Field Marshall Mike Solaegui 415-314-6261 mikes@perfectedgecutlery.com Secretary Lew Chee 650-867-9952 flypccsecretary@gmail.com Treasurer David Santana 650-533-0976 Santanahouse@email.msn.com Webmaster Matt Abrams 415-370-3323 matt@matt-abrams.com New Member Chairman Ray Squires John Bassetto 650-575-4273 650-759-5143 rlsquires@comcast.net geppetto1@mac.com Flight Proficiency Chairman Open Looking for it. TBD Editor Brian Chan 650-867-8813 pcceditor@gmail.com WHAT S HAPPENING @ PCC The wasp is back at PCC, several hives have been found under the tables. We have been removing the hives and its occupants. Check under the tables for hives before you put your stuffs on it. One member was stung last Sunday, at least he is not allergic to the venom. If you are allergic to the bee or wasp stings, you might want to carry some anti-venom shots. Please notify club officers if you see any hive under the tables. 1 MEETING MINUTE Date May 16th, 2018 Call to Order: David Mosher, President. Lew Chee Time: 7:38pm. Guest(s) Introduction(s): Godfrey Watson joined. Welcome! Raffle Prize for tonight: UMX Spacewalker Approval of last month s Minutes: Approved: Yes Announcements: None
Treasurer s Report: Dave S presented his report. Club is doing well financially. Membership Committee Report: There are 105 members and one more joined at meeting. Safety Committee Report: Watch out for ticks. Always check your clothes while walking out in the weeds and after getting back to the pits. Field Maintenance Report: 1) The lock code will be changed and new code will be sent via email. 2) Mowing team has done a great job. Field looks great. Thank you! 3) The green mower needs some work on the housing. 4) The plastic culvert in southeast corner of the field needs shoring up before the rainy season. 5) The washout on south side also needs clearing. Old Business: n/a. Flight Instructors Report: Don continues to fly under supervision. New Business: The Bayside field has been closed by the City of Newark. Tomcats (SCCMAS) also still has limited access to their field. PCC members should keep an eye out for Bayside or Tomcat members looking to fly as visitors. They are only allowed two visits and a PCC member must serve as sponsor for the visit. Show and Tell: Nothing to see here! Contest Reports/Upcoming Events: Several events coming up this month: Sunset Beach Camp-n-Fly, ISR Slope Racing and Castle Giant Scale Fly-In. Also there are some float-flys at Oakdale and AMOS clubs. Meeting Adjournment: 8:43 p.m Raffle Drawing Winner(s): Mike S. Number of members in attendance: 12 members, 1 applicants and 0 guest Minutes by: Lew Chee UPCOMING EVENTS June 2 Biggest Little Air Show @ Hiller Aviation Museum. (see flier on the end of the newsletter) 6 PCC Newsletter input deadline 17 Father's Day 20 PCC Meeting @ Peter's Cafe, 10 El Camino Real, Millbrae. 7:30 pm 30 Float Fly @R/C Flyer Unlimited, Woodward Res. Oakdale July 4 Independence Day, USA 6 PCC Newsletter input deadline 15 Warbirds By The Bay @SACRC, Fremont(see flyer) 18 PCC Meeting @ Peter's Cafe, 10 El Camino Real, Millbrae. 7:30 pm 21 Float Fly @R/C Flyer Unlimited, Woodward Res. Oakdale August 1 PCC Newsletter input deadline 11 Float Fly @R/C Flyer Unlimited, Woodward Res. Oakdale 15 PCC Meeting @ Peter's Cafe, 10 El Camino Real, Millbrae. 7:30 pm 18 Warbirds Over Livermore @ Livermore Flying Electrons, Livermore. NEW GATE LOCK CODE The gate lock code had been changed. You should have received an e-mail from Brian C. If you did not receive an email or need to get the new code, please contact Brian @ pcceditor@gmail.com 2
SOLDER JOINTS. Brian Chan Warning: Not all factory new means good! CASTLE GIANT SCALE FLY-IN Brian Chan A few of the PCC members made the trip to the Castle airport to witness the giant scale models and pilots doing their thing. Also to see if we can pick up a few bargains! This is a 4mm connector on a Lipo battery purchased from a famous online hobby store. Since the pack came with a different connector than the ones I am using, I decided to change it by de-soldering the connectors that came with the pack. Most of the time, I just cut the connector off. I am glad I did not cut it off this time! Now I have a show and tell! After I removed the wires, I noticed that there was not much soldered area between the wires and the connector, less than 10% of the solder cup had solder on it! and may be about 20% of the wires have solder on them. The rest of the solder cup and wires are clean! You can have the best battery, best connector. If you soldering job is not up to par, you are not getting the power through!! I wish there is an easy way to check the soldering job on all the connectors, I don t know any other sure way to check without disassembling the connector first! Keep an eye on the connectors, if the connector gets hot, my educated guess would be a bad solder joint or a ill-fitted connector! Gary, Jake, Ken, Dave smiled for the camera. Flight line. A beautiful Focke-Wulf Fw 190 just landed. 3
Beautiful Grumman F7F Tigercat on final. Jason's A-10 taking off. Look at the size of the Tigercat. It is BIG! Jason's A-10 in flight. Lew is helping Jason prior to Jason's giant Fairchild Republic A-10 thunderbolr "Warthog" takes flight. Another beautiful model, a Mitsubishi Zero. 4
Not all he plane made it home safely. VISITING GOLD COUNTRY FLYER Brian Chan The pit area with shades and starting tables. I have a chance to visit with the Gold Country Flyers in Ione, California. http://www.goldcountryflyers.com Aerial view of GCF field. Pathed runway is 20' x 300'. I was there on a weekday, to meet up with a friend who is aerotowing scale glider. So there were only a handful of pilots there. My friend Dan has a 50% scale Ka-6 glider with 7.5 meter (295") wingspan. And also met up with a couple friends that I did not know who also fly with the GCF club. The flying site is pretty remote, but only a few miles from the City of Ione. You can see the cooling towers of the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station (decommissioned) in a distance. I took a few photos of the flying site with my Phantom 4. The field layout, the yellow plane is 7.5 meter in span. 5
Pit and runway. Trophy wall! http://www.flypcc.org Next Meeting: Peter's Cafe 10 El Camino Real, Millbrae June 20th, 2018 7:30 pm Remember do not park in the front parking lot Summer is here, and so does the fog! 6
Wasp nest under the table removed. Bob, Ladybug and Jim. What's left of the hive! The pit area is free of wasps, for now! Three of the many Ray's we have in PCC! We will not accept any more Ray as new PCC member! Bob with his recently acquired Radian glider. Jason's P51B on final. 7
Latest new members, father and son, they are members of SCCMAS. Welcome. Dave is fixing the fence post. Here is one of their planes. Fixed! Well at least it is standing straight up! JUST ONE MORE Ray, Cruz, Robert and Lew, something serious is happening here! Handy work by the mowing team. I was told Crop circles will be next! 8
Warbirds by the Bay July 15, 2018 All Era Warbirds! Gas! Glow! Electric! Electric flying starts at 7AM Gas and Glow at 9AM Sorry, no turbines E-flite Ultra Micro Warbird Racing! Limited landing approach, see picture on back Lunch served on site All proceeds benefit the Viola Blythe Community Services Center For details on field location and directions visit the SACRC website www.sacrc.org AMA Sanction Pending