Take the following test to see if you are hopelessly obsessed with R/C Sailplanes.

Home: DO YOU:

• Watch the weather channel for flying conditions.
• Consider moving just to be closer to the flying field.
• Take vacations to attend contests.
• Have a vehicle used mostly for flying

Workshop: DO YOU:

• Own an electronic scale for weighing parts, and complain it’s only good to 1/10 ounce.
• Buy #11 X-Acto blades by the 100’s, and use them up.
• Have a building board bigger than 2’ X 6’, more than one.
• Own tools that you have never used.
• Have more than 4 kinds of CA., more than 4 kinds of epoxy and 5 fillers.
• Buy epoxy in containers greater than a quart.

Design: DO YOU:

• Know the difference between the SD7037, RG14a, SA7035, MH32, E205 and HQ 2/9? For extra points name the individuals with the initials.
• Put duct tape on a brand new plane
• Know the bending moment formula for spars
• Know the tensile strength of carbon fiber
• Mold you own ballast bars
• Look for loopholes in FAI or AMA rules, and build a plane just for that advantage.
• Bag your own wings
• Design your own airfoil

Flying skills: CAN YOU:

• Thermal inverted, and go up!
• Hand catch, upright and inverted!
• Circle tow.
• Hand toss and thermal out, with your open class plane
• Break winch lines at will.
• Fly uncoupled.
• Trim your plane so nobody except you can fly it.

Equipment: Do You;

• Buy servos more than 12 at a time
• Buy an identical backup transmitter.
• Replace brand new batteries just to get more capacity
• Have a chart on the wall showing when you last cycled your packs
• Own a talking timer, and a spare if Radio Shack discontinues it.
• Have a backup frequency, and a backup to that.
• Adjust your nose weight by 1/16 oz., and notice the difference.
• Lose track of programming your transmitter and had to start over.
• Does the hobby shop call YOU when something new arrives.
• Carry binoculars in you field equipment.
• Own an airfoil plotting program.
• Know how to program your transmitter without ever referring to the manual, more than one manufacturer.

To reduce weight have you ever:

• Cut your antenna short
• Removed the receiver case
• Gone to smaller batteries
• Thrown out kit supplied balsa
• Cut holes in parts, not called for on the plans.
• Shortened factory wiring
• Removed connectors
• Hollowed out foam
• Remove servo lugs, and two case screws
• Used transparent covering, but hated the color.

Have you ever:

• Launched with your receiver off or transmitter off.
• Launched with the wrong program in the transmitter, and still landed OK.
• Totaled a plane on the first day, and never rebuilt it.
• Mid-aired a bird, intentionally.
• Had a hawk come over to your thermal.
• Said to your timer, "that hawk is not in the core"
• Left a thermal just to find another one.
• Lost sight of your plane for more than 30 seconds AND got it back in control.
• Switched battery packs in your transmitter, and didn’t bother to land.
• Had a flyaway due to your airborne pack go dead from over flying.
• Been passed on the way up in a thermal.
• Finished first in a sanctioned contest.
• Finished last in a sanctioned contest.
• Had to jump to avoid your sliding plane.
• Had to jump to avoid someone else’s plane.
• Got to this part of the quiz?
• Written a How to and been flamed.