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Raystorm HD Road Map
Achievement difficulty: 6/10
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Missable achievements: None
Glitched achievements: None
Cheats disable achievements: No cheats
Difficulty effects achievements: No
Welcome to Raystorm HD, an updated classic shooter orginally released for the PSOne. A number of changes have been made from the original, such as ranking leaderboards and a new mode called "13 Plane Mode".
Though there's co-op, its only local and all achievements are strictly Single Player. Also, whether or not you're skilled in this game, the two achievements, "LOCKON DOWN 10000 UNIT" and "SHOOTINGDOWN 15000 UNIT", will take quite some time to earn.
Regardless, the difficulty setting doesn't effect your achievements and once you earn "UNLOCK UNLIMITED CREDITS", earning the rest of the "Easy 6" should take 3-5 hours. While the "Hard 6" will really push your skills and patience.
Step 1: Unlimited Credits
From the start, go to Help & Options > Configuration and change the difficulty to "Very Easy", change Lives to "1" and Credits to "9". From here, play either Arcade or Extra until you get a game over. Do this six times and after getting a game over for the sixth time, the achievement will pop-up when you return to the menu screen.
Step 2: The Easy 6 (80http://www.xbox360achievements.org/f...isc/g-icon.gif)
With one down, it's time to get the other 5 achievements. Head back to Help & Options > Configuration and change Lives to "5" and Credits to "Unlimited". Now head to "Extra Mode" for "R-GEAR ROLLOUT". Choose your R-Gray and set to auto for earning "OVERALL SHOOTINGDOWN AVERAGE 80%". While playing, focus as much as the small targets as possible and use the special attack when the screen gets very crowded. This is a must during the sixth stage, as the screen quickly fills up when getting close to the boss fight.
Now with the R-Gear available, head to Arcade for "R-GRAY0 ROLLOUT" and "OVERALLL LOCKON AVERAGE 80%". The one thing the game doesn't explain is what the "Lockon Showdown" means. Its a weapon kill ratio, i.e if all the kills made in a stage is mostly shots and special attacks, the lockon percentage would be low. With the R-Gear's unlimited lockon and a special attack that makes it temporarily invincible, its possible to play an entire game with Lockon ONLY. Using lockon only in every stage will net you "100% lockon showdown" guaranteed. Regardless of how many enemies missed or the number of times you die. By now, you should also have earned the "UNLOCK 13 PLANE MODE" achievement. This should take about 3-5 hours to get this.
Step 3: The Hard 6 (120http://www.xbox360achievements.org/f...isc/g-icon.gif)
From here, there's no more hand holding. "13 Plane Mode" will put your skills to the test as you use one specialty ship (R-Gear or R-Gray0) and twelve standard ships (R-Gray1 and R-Gray2, both auto and manual) in a one credit playthrough. Now, select 13 Plane Mode > Extra Mode, as its easier, and go for "UNLOCK EXTRA STAGE SELECT MODE" and "UNLOCK RATE VIEWER". A useful tip to completing "13 Plane Mode" is to try not to lose at least one ship for the first three stages.
Once that's done, you can go back to 13 Plane Mode for "UNLOCK ARCADE STAGE SELECT MODE" or go straight to the standard Arcade/Extra for "NO CONTINUE CLEAR", if you've really gotten good. If you have gotten this far, or gotten a game over a lot, you should be one step closer to "LOCKON DOWN 10000 UNIT" and "SHOOTINGDOWN 15000 UNIT".
Raystorm HD is one of the few classics that's greatly enjoyed with friends. Its such a shame that there's only local co-op and that all achievements are restricted to single player. If your very good with shooters, getting most of the achievements should be a cake walk, while the two Unit achievements will take hours. Raystorm HD is still a good game to pick up for nostalgia lovers and for those looking for a shooter with an easier learning curve.
Nice, but this guide looks pretty much like a roadmap, and not really an achievement guide without the achievements posted and their descriptions. And I'm guessing TC isn't never coming back to finish it...
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Apple Mug Cake
I saw these adorable little apple bowls at Daiso in Costa Mesa and just had to buy them. The stem is actually a spoon. It's perfect for single serving desserts.
So of course, I thought about making a mug cake. And until now I haven't yet made an apple mug cake.
Since apple sauce is often used as a substitute to make a recipe healthier, this was the perfect opportunity to use apple sauce in a mug cake. I didn't use any oil, so the cake isn't as fluffy as some of the other ones I've made. It's more like a muffin, but it's still pretty tasty.
I added fresh apple chunks because the apple flavor was pretty light. The apples also make the cake more moist and breaks up the batter. I'll try to fiddle with this some more to try to get a fluffier cake. I might have to give in and add a little bit of oil.
I can't wait to use these bowls for other things like dessert soups.
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4 tbsp all purpose flour
2 tbsp unsweetened apple sauce
2 1/2 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tbsp fat free milk
1/4 tsp baking powder
1-2 tbsp apples, diced into small cubes
Mix all ingredient except fresh apple chunks in an a mug with a small whisk until batter is smooth. Batter will be rather thick. Add in apple chunks and stir. Cook in microwave for about 1 minute.
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Kirbie, these bowls are very cute. Is it Daiso exclusive or any asian(or maybe specifically a Japanese?) store will sell it? Or something similiar ? My favorite fruits are mangoes and oranges so those as bowls I'd love.
I searched and get lots of results for bowl ;
but nothing for apple bowl or fruit bowl.
Thank You.
Awwww, those bowls are so cute!
Those apple bowls are so cute!
Ooh what an adorable mug! It's so Daiso-esque. Haha.
I love your mug cake recipes! I made this one and used some apple pie spice and it tasted great!
Omigosh, I just made my first ever applesauce (we dont have them in my country) just for this mugcake! I will make this soon!
Hi Kirbie! I just mixed up the batter and realized the microwave was not working! So I tried to think about a creative way to cook my cake without a microwave and… BAM! I fried the batter. Yep. It actually tasted good! Thanks Kirbie for the wonderful recipe!
That is awesome! where did you get the cute mug?
I just have to say, if i can put my cake down long enough to type, this is DELICIOUS apple cake. I used almost an entire small apple and use the struessel recipe from your blueberry cake (only need 1/2 amount) and it is OMG delicious…I call it Yummy Apple Mug Cake thanks so much for great recipe ideas.


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Why Isnt Sam Coding Yet
: I am participating in a CS project, and our task (we're a group of 8) is to create a client-server application to solve / run geometrical problems. We feel that we don't get the care we expected to get, and so we'd like to hear some opinions from people with more experience than we have. We've just started with our OO design and have already run across several issues which seem to break "good" design principles.
...the application will have to consist of a client and a server part and has to be implemented in Java... Different clients connect to the server and form "discussion groups"; each group is dedicated to a certain (fixed) geometrical problem as ConvexHull
calculations or VoronoiTriangulations
The server's job is to accept the client's network connections and assign the clients to the groups they request. There will be no client-client communications, so the server has to broadcast some of the messages transmitted by clients to the other clients of the same group. It does so without knowledge of what the clients are communicating, so we have client-server commands the server has to execute (e.g. enter a new group) and client-client commands the server has to broadcast.
The clients "discuss" problems based on a math library we will have to implement among the other things. All clients participating in the same group are supposed to have the same data to base their calculations on, but each client will do the calculations on its own. However, each client is allowed to contribute new data (points, line segments and the like). So if a client issues a new line segment or point, the server will broadcast this within the group and make sure that all clients have received the same data. Once data is consistent among all clients of a "group", any client in this group may issue a "start calculation" command in order to trigger the problem solving process in all clients.
...Can you recommend any starting points for this?
? Are there any "
s" or recommendations on how to implement such protocol classes? It would be nice if we could use the same class(es) implementing the protocol on the client and server side. But what could such a class or set of classes look like?
Now what's most important is each of your features is tested first, not designed first. This means you can experiment with the design, in tiny little cycles, until it is clean and as compact as possible. After each cycle you will get an "All tests passed" ensuring the odds your experiment produced a bug are extremely low.
: I'm afraid of coding before thinking. It may be fun, but also a lot of unnecessary work :)
: Your question implies you think you must design your entire object model out of thin air before any coding can begin. I wonder where you students got that idea ;-)
: Our professor warned us of the WISCY-syndrome: "Why Isn't Sam Coding Yet?" :)
Now can anyone here help this poor confused student? or his professor???
I think the rather misguided interlocutor is confused and needs help, it's not the student. He suffered from brainwashing strain of XP propaganda. It's not about object models that the student has to think, and
he'd better think
. If the problem as related by the student is described correctly and no unnecessary assumptions are stated, then all the XP blah blah blah that is repeated like a broken gramophone regardless of context is not gonna produce a lot of worth of good code for this case. --
I'll have a go:
First stand back from the problem. A long way back. Ask yourself what is this all for? What do you want from the exercise? What does your professor want from the exercise?
It's a learning exercise.
You're hoping to get credits on it.
The professor wants to feel he's taught you well.
You want something useful to talk about in interviews later.
When I read the problem description it sounds so artificial. When I've done triangulations and convex hull stuff, it's been in the context of graphics software, e.g. triangulating on points that overlay on a bitmap prior to morphing the bitmap. That's an actual real world use of a triangulation. The described application is not a full application, so how do you see what is going on?? My alarm bells also ring when I hear that you are in a team of 8, so all the problems of team work to solve too...
The approach I'd take is to entirely on my own prototype the voronoi triangulation software (
as a stand alone
non client server based java application) with a reasonably nice front end, then present it to the team to cannibalize and client-serverise.
(Tip: Canibalize into
. Client-serverise with
and possibly
. Use Java's serialization and applets/servelets. Don't bother with rmi and absolutely refuse to use ejb. Have teammates research these and make them responsible for the corresponding parts of the report.)
front end is going to be vital to testing
, and it's also highly visible. That's why it's important that YOU write it. The visibility gives it a disproportionate amount of kudos. In my MSc dissertation I included color photo screen shots of an application I wrote. My approach of a glitzy impression paid off handsomely as I won a prize for best MSc that year. Do a front end up front, even if it's not an official part of the spec, it will make your life easier and it is an aspect of
. The triangulation stuff is maths so is seen as 'difficult', which it isn't. If you code the triangulation part too, then you've clearly contributed to the team effort and proved you've understood the maths. Oh, also before all that start by planning your write up, because that is what you
pick up marks on. You want to put a reasonable amount of time into the write up and not spend all your time coding. Or arguing with the other 7 about how to divide up the problem. Me cynical?
You could spend forever arguing the actual message sequences and 'protocol' to send by between entities. You are much much much better off having something to show that does something early. What you start with can be refactored out of all recognition later, always with something that works along the way. With the approach suggested here, even if the team is unable to work well together, something worthwhile will still come out of it. However assuming a decent team, they will seize on the working code and start working out sensible messages / class splitting between client and server. (See Tip above) --
syndrome serves to remind us that there are managers out there who do not understand software quality and who are setting schedules arbitrarily. The guy who asks about Sam is not interested in your prototypes or refactorings. He wants code written today, he wants a demo this afternoon, and as soon as you demo something interesting, he wants it released. Code clarity is way down on his list, not even there. Same for your future problems. He wants you to babysit his customer to whom you just released crap while you fix what's wrong and keep Sam coding (without a clue) for the next round. Some have found this cycle less than optimal. So, recognizing this question as part of a foul dynamic is a helpful thing. Let's not chuck that in order to be glib and extreme.
. . .
The system described above seems to have two interesting parts. One would be the solving of difficult mathematical problems. This difficulty would exist with or without a collaborative model. The other interesting part is the collaborative model itself. The assignment was given in terms of "client-server". The student may be searching for the
architectural style, in which a problem space is shared and accessible to multiple solution agents, each of whom may have expertise pertaining to a subset of the whole problem. These students may not want to have to reinvent blackboard from scratch. Further, after researching blackboard a bit, they may decide that it and other collaborative models are a bad fit for the scope of the current assignment. Nonetheless, an awareness of the blackboard architecture is likely to help decide how to respond to this part.
I'm afraid of coding before thinking. It may be fun, but also a lot of unnecessary work
I believe this statement is based on the belief that changing code is unnecessary work, while changing design documents is not.
There is simply no way to avoid iterative learning and understanding of a task. An individual or a group is simply not going be introduced to a new project and magically become fully knowledgeable. The only choice is the medium to use when investigating the problem.
In some types of work, there are some very real costs to trying the real thing, so a surrogate is used. One would not iteratively enhance the foundation of a building as new floors are added; it is simply too expensive to shore up the structure, tear out the old foundation, and repour a new foundation. Software development, however, does not fit within this category.
In software development, the costs of creating detailed, correct, and non-ambiguous text are no higher than the costs of creating detailed, correct, and non-ambiguous code. The costs of correcting text while maintaining consistency is no less (and may be higher) that the costs of correcting code while maintaining consistency. The costs of editing text to improve format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar is no less than the costs of refactoring code. The advantage of using the code as the design medium is that when one is done, one is truly done. With a textual design, one still has to write the code and verify that the code conforms to the text. Finally, the code is much easier to validate for correctness than the text (which is why requirements documents, design documents, etc. are so rarely validated and full of oversights, inconsistencies, and downright false statements).
Iteration in a development environment is unavoidable. Unless there is a true cost saving in using a model of some sort, it is much more effective to perform this iteration with the real thing. Software development falls into this latter category, so the question really should be
When I saw the link I thought the page was going to be about the effectiveness of "SAM's Teach Yourself..." books and their ilk.
OK, OK, OK!!! I'LL START CODING ALREADY! Just stop harassing me!
--Samuel A. Falvo II
I thought this wiki page would provide some illumination on "WISCY", and perhaps even something that would be linkable. Instead most of the comments are so far off topic, it is laughable.
is the only one who contributed something of value.
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A lil video of some bag work
Hey guys abit of bag work i got stuck into today in the blazing heat, its not that professional and abit sluggish but i had fun and its good to be back into it after a 6 YEAR LAYOFF haha its true what they say u always come back
when i used to compete i was alot sharper than this, but ima be taking videos each week of my training and keeping track of how im doing this is my first week, sum bag work
it doesnt bother me too much wat people say, its only bag work after a long time lay off but any input will be respected, cheers
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The main thing would be little more focus on foot work/balance, you seem to lean a little too much with the head movement. Focus on your foot placement to correct that, which will also help your movement in and out.
I wouldent make a habit of resting on the inside if youre tired, try throwing more paced combinations to avoid that. And a little more follow through with your right.
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the fitness will come back as long with the tools for the trade in time!! cheers for the input man
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Good movement...you're not standing still in front of the bag. Power seems pretty good, but I would work on throwing more punches in combination rather than just focusing on power punches. Your lead left hook has good torque, but you're projecting the punch. I would suggest throwing a feint (jab or straight right hand) and then throwing the hook. But good stuff man, keep it up!
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Went flying at our club field Sunday - unfortunately I am still w/out an electric - could have set a pretty high bar.
Flew my winch launched 2M Ruby and MPX Flamingo - not a single flight under 30 minutes
Temps from 45 in the AM to 70 by 1 PM => fantastic flying!
Plans for my 2M ALES are almost complete, built a mock-up cardboard fuse and it was a bit too small - so I need to blow it up just a bit and start building.
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I agree, Martin. The best thermals are often found when the air is relatively cool but there's enough sun to heat up patches of ground. After all, thermals are dependent on a contrast of temperature rather than an absolute. Since my field has a lot of asphalt around it I am hopeful that I'll be able to find thermals all winter as long as the snow doesn't get too deep to get to said field.
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Too many flights to count today. In fact, I'm only home to charge my Tx battery since I forgot my adapter. I got one flight of 30+ minutes with the Specter around noon but mostly I've been doing aerobatics with the ASW 28 with a little ballast to keep my momentum up. I continue to be impressed with how well a cheap bit of foam performs after a little tweaking. There goes the battery buzzer! It's time to go wring out the Yak.
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I managed to sneak out during today's lull between rain storms. The lift was very soft but fairly steady considering the conditions.
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Thermal or Slope: Thermal
Date and Time of flight:11/16/12 12:45PM
Duration of flight: 18:37
Location: Greenville, NC
Had an interesting 'lunch-fly' session today - overcast and breezy (gusting up to 10 mph) - temperature in mid to high 40's.
Decided to take the ballast out and was going to try and fly as many 2 or 3's as I could get - then I caught a 'whirlwind' thermal that propelled me way high and I disovered that there was a large patch of lifty air up there - so I decided to hang out at that height. Actually could have gone longer, but the timer went off and I had to dive and land and go back to work... Hey it pays the bills...
Oh well - at least it's Friday and I can sneak in a bunch of flying over the weekend! Hope conditions hold
Thermals! Martin
I had the same weather conditions here today, but not with such a good result. 3 flights of 10mins each.
I flew anyways and that counts by itself
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Yesterday the winds were very light(for yorkshire anyway lol) and I had a loooong dlg session from 9am to 1:30pm with the dog chasing the blaster round the field getting very muddy and smelly, I had a few 4 min flights but the rest were mostly around 1:20, day b4 there was a bonfire in the allotments and I tried to catch a lift from it but just could not turn tight enough to go up, tried ds through it too not that did not work, I managed to hold the height for a while but not go up, I wonder if I am doing something wrong, this newer blaster seems to lose height more then the old one in tight turns, yet is it light and I have played around with the cog, in a tight turn it just seems to lose all it's momentum and then loses height. Maybe I need to make it heavier???
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Maidened my Weasel today. Went up at the slope and toss into lift.
Flew straight in uneventfully. Left me flying with a big smile. For over 10mins I was flying with a buzzard side by side, great experience. Weasel is my first pure glider.
Winds were blowing at 18knots and had to add 20gr of ballast.
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Glider name: High Aspect 3.1 M
November 17, 2012
Duration of flight: 31 minutes 21 seconds ( 22 sec motor run already deducted)
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Today was the first great flying day (on a weekend) in many weeks. Relatively abundant lift without much strong sink. There are not likely going to be too many more days like this before the low-lift short days of winter take hold. Weather: 55 F (13 C), Clear, Wind SE 5 mph (8kph).
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Nice flying, guys. We continue to have unseasonably warm temps here in Minnesota and I've been out flying something every day. The only down side is that the prevailing winds have been from the wrong direction so my choices are to fly in the teeth of the bright sun or way downwind where the gliders get small in a hurry. So? I haven't really been trying for endurance but have become pretty proficient stunting both the Specter and the ASW 28. The winds are predicted to shift over night so I hope I can take advantage of the nice, warm, freeway tomorrow.
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Glider name: Aspire Disser-E
November 18, 2012
Duration of flight: 28 minutes 12 seconds (17 sec motor run already deducted)
Location: Brattelbrook RC Field, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
I know I haven't posted anything in a while, but I'm still watching you guys. I know this isn't in the top flights for the month, but it was still pretty good for me. Between the weather and my work I haven't had much time to get out and fly.
The day yesterday was AWESOME. Clear and 25 deg when I got up and then in the mid 40's by 11:00 AM. Nice lift anywhere you looked for about an hour or so and then it just softly faded out to a warn clear afternoon. Just a nice day to be outside.
Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone.
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Those fall soaring days are just fantastic. Those days rank very high in 'favorites' list.
Good to hear that you were able to get out and enjoy it Murph.
I'm hoping that we will get a good day this weekend! wife gets to go shopping & I get to go soaring. Looks like a perfect compromise to me.
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Welcome back, Paul.
All entries are welcome and, since I don't plan on sending out the fabulous prizes until the middle of the next century, the benefits of topping the list are dubious. I'm just glad that so many of us are able to take advantage of the good flying weather. Winter will arrive eventually so these glorious fall days are a gift.
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Second I want to dispel some rumors: - From the behind the scenes tour and the captains mouth the ship does use stabilizers, the Western route has high winds and rough seas, and when the waves are head on the stabilizers on any ship do not help, they only help with roll, that being said I thought it was smoother than my other cruises - The smell does exist, but it is only on Lido and does not take your breath away. It should not ruin a normal person's experience. Cozumel - we did the underwater scooter and loved it. We ate at a lovely restaurant La Choza, just off the strip. It was a gorgeous restaurant, a US 3-4 star place. Was cleaner than most in the US and had delicious high-end authentic cuisine. My parents and sisters did the Adventure tower and zip line and loved it as well. My grandparents enjoyed shopping and tequila factory tour. Roatan - My wife and did the shipwreck snorkel, it was the best snorkeling we have ever done anywhere, including Hawaii. The fish were amazing, the reef was beautiful and the guide really was terrific. After the snorkeling, we got to interact with monkeys. My father enjoyed a scuba tour and my mom and sisters liked their snorkeling. Now let me say something about Belize and Roatan, they are not dangerous, yes they are poor and, like anywhere have their bad people, but they are part of the majority world (yes you rednecks on the cruise it is used to be called the third world but that is demeaning and you would know that if you ever left the South or Confederacy). Over 2/3 of the world lives in these conditions with unrealizable electricity, some without running water, that is why they pester you to go in their shops. You get back aboard America, they get to go home and hope the water runs, the generators still powers and their child does not have a disease for which they cannot afford the cure. So get off your high horse you pejorative jerks who do not understand that reality. Belize - We all went cave tubing (sans grandparents) I will disagree with the other review that I have seen; only three of the excursions were cancelled because of weather. It stopped raining part way through the day and cave tubing was a blast. See above about those who complain Belize is dirty. Our guide was amazing and the people are excited to show off what truly is a beautiful country. Costa Maya - leave the port, I know there are pools, but the beaches here are a postcard. The water breaks on the reef about 250 yards offshore, so the blue Caribbean is like glass. You can see the imported America another time, go see why this a beautiful stop. We did the beach kayak; Roger was the best tour guide we had at any of the stops. If you would like to give America a bad name by getting drunk and being a jerk, by all means stay at the port and the pools, but if you are that person (probably not from the South) then go enjoy this beautiful port.
My only complaint was the some of the Southerners on the cruise. While I was born in the South, and respect that culture, a good number of the Southerners on the ship (65% of our cruise from from the South) were the type that give the South a bad name. I am not offended by those who want to have fun, we had a blast, and I am offended by those who cannot understand how fortunate they are and put down people and places that are lucky to not have been born in. Again, we get to go on the ship and gorge, they have to go back home and scrape by, and I bet most of those people are happier than those on the ship. The certainly would not let a bad smell on one deck for a short period ruin their vacation.


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Sig Riser 2M vs Great Planes Spirit 2M
Hi, I have a GP Spirit 2M waiting in the box, I'm thinking of getting a Sig Riser 2M (still) just to have something light and floaty, Any thoughts of one versus the other?
Is one slower, faster, floatier, more or less resistant to bad landings, more or less maneuverable(given that the same servos/linkages/etc are used???
Thanks - Paul
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Riser has better handling. Spirit is a pain to thermal, because it gets all squirelly. Spirit may be a bit faster. Suggest if you're going to build the Spirit, that you make the fuselage more like the one on the Riser, i.e. longer tail. But why stay with 2M when you could build a 100 inch glider? How about an Oly 2 and an Oly 2S? (the Oly 2 is a real nice floater, and I suspect the Oly 2S is faster)
I agree with lincoln. I built a Spirit 2 meter and flew it for a while. I got so tired of it tip stalling and constant pitch oscillations that I totally redesigned the plane by building a new pod, boom, tail feathers and sheeted the wings out to the tips. It now flies wonderful. But really, the only thing left that was the Spirit are the modified wings.....
This photo shows the plane completed but a little later I sheeted it to the tips.
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Good Stuff....
Thanks for the info.....
PP- Interesting, yes I remember when you did that a while ago. I'll probably do as you did and sheet the outboard sections. Also, something I have been thinking about is doing a lot more mod's to the Spirit such as:
1) keeping the leading edges of the outboard tips straight but tapering back rearward a little, putting less overall rearward sweep to the spars in the outboard sections and putting the angle changes for those sections in the trailing edges.
2) Cutting one or two more slightly longer inner ribs for the outboard sections and making a sorta Albatrossy Bird-of-Time-ish set of outboard sections. Maybe. We'll see. Some sorta Spirit-of-Time if you will.
3) Moving the horiz stab forward a smidge, moving the vert stab rearward a smidge and making the vert stab at least 50% bigger.
4) Maybe, just maybe putting in a 2-piece-takedown full flying horiz stab mounted mid way on the vert stab(built with a nice sturdy thicker airfoil to support/accomodate the horiz stab).
5) Extend the nose section so that I can maybe get away with adding no nose weight (or a whole lot less).
6) If I really get daring and ambitious, re-do the dihedral completely to a gullwing dihedral and maybe put in ailerons, change the horiz and vert stab shapes to more elliptical shapes.
All the wood is there in the box, I'll just add a little more. I know, it's a LOT of big ideas at this point, but since I've heard soooo many similar comments about tip-stall, instability, non-reaction to rudder, etc I think I'll likely not make it any worse. Plus, I'm flying my Easy Eagle with the CG pretty far back and reactive so I think I'm up to it. Hopefully.
Due to my overall situation, I'll likely get a 2M Riser and stay within that size range to do to a lot of factors making bigger than that not really practical or more of a hassle.
Gotta get back to work - Paul
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I've owned both of those 2m gliders and built and flown many others.
Honestly those two are the worst of all the popular old 2m gliders.
Among the older kits,
If you want the nicest floater........Gentle Lady.
And a beautiful flying faster 2m...............Sagitta 600.
My free tip: Get rid of that Spirit kit before you waste 80 hours building just to end up with a squirrel/pig hybrid.
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The Sig Riser was my first glider and it was (is) an excellent first plane. Goes together well, flies great, and can be infinitely repaired. I've build the gentle lady as well and the wing structure is much weaker than that of the Sig Riser. Many of those that helped me learn to fly fly moldies and I received many comments on how well the Riser flies. But unfortunately the Riser is no more....l learned another beginner lesson and that is to remember to turn the battery switch in the plane on before launching from a high start.
Riser vs Spirit
In 'Sailplane Combat' the Riser usually makes more, and prettier, confetti than the Spirit.
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852 Posts
It crashes every 5 minutes due to being so ugly it's hard to keep your eyes on it.
Oh, you mean flight performance......well, it just doesn't thermal as well as other floaters and no one who saw it fly wanted it when I tried to give it away.
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In the past, I have posted a link describing my experience with a 2m Spirit and the modifications that finally got the plane to fly reasonably well. Here is a link to my description:
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Joined Jan 2011
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i am trying to decide how to finish an old spirit elite kit. i want to make it electric (for convenience), so i'm wondering about motor/etc. but i was alos thinking about redoing the fuse kinda like what you have done. this is before i learned about the plane's instability with the stock fuse (glad i read your posts).
can you tell me how to build that fuse?
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Spirit Improvements
Mr Williamson - Thanks for the link, I actually saw that posting you made over a year ago and applied much of it to the building of my HOB 2x4 and Ace RC Easy Eagle, Good information. I now regard most(if not all) of what you wrote about as completely applicable to any woody plane I'll probably ever build. I even printed it off and keep it in my folder of reference information. Thanks again- Paul
Sig 2m Riser ugly???? - I always thought it was pretty cool and rather classic looking. But maybe that's just me.
Adios -Paul
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More Spirit Wing Improvement Questions......
......Just curious, Does anyone think that the Spirit can be made to turn a little nicer, smoother, with less tip stall, etc by reducing the uplift angle of the the outboard sections of the wing(in addition to sheeting the forward sections of the tops of the wing LE-to-Spar in the outboard sections, and in addition to making the Vertstab/rudder larger)?
Inquiring minds want to know, Thanks - Paul
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Town Water Superintendent Ken Banker said a pressure spike on South Transit near Robinson caused the water main to rupture overnight. Crews were called to the scene about 2 a.m.
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Even though she was in Las Vegas to accept the awards, Maggie still made time to say goodnight to the Kopila Valley children over skype. Between celebrating two birthdays and welcoming new students into the start of the new school year, it goes without saying that Maggie and the Kopila team stays busy! To read more about the honors, adventures, and new students of Kopila, check out Maggie's blog.


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Less than 24 hours after the premier and several ministers, including Quebec's attorney general, raised the alarm about the election being stolen by "the Rest of Canada," the Parti Quebecois is dialling down its allegations.
"There is no question of disputing the integrity of the chief electoral officer," says Justice minister and attorney general, Bertrand St-Arnaud today.
Both he and Pauline Marois say they are re-assured by the electoral officer's statements that in some of the ridings in question, registration is actually lower now than it was in 2012.
The electoral officer also said that the report that some ridings were a cause for concern had actually originated from a political party which he would not name, and he said the information was unfounded.
Jacques Drouin also criticized the Justice Minister for raising the alarm about the election and placing orders to his office, which is meant to be independent.
But the premier and the attorney general say they had good reason to be concerned, due to media reports and the fact that the present of a registration committee had resigned.
"I think they were legitimate worries. There were questions to ask," says St-Arnaud, but he says his party will remain vigilant.
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