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Old 11-11-2019, 05:35 AM
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The landing gear works great. The other day when I got back from flying I forgot to remove the battery from the retract controller. Well I soon learn that the system will deploy the retracts by it self if the batt voltage drops to low. My nose gear didn’t come out all the way and I was expecting for the nose retract motor to be burned out because the jet was laying on top of a moving blanket on the floor witch obstructed the nose retract but to my luck everything works as advertised. The system must have some sort of protection against binding. The only Issue I have for some reason is settling the brakes. I get full brakes or nothing. Can’t find the in between brakes. Lol
the gear does that by design. When you extend the gear it keeps moving until the current spikes due to a resistance to movement. 95% of the time this is when the gear reaches full extension or retraction. But if the gear binds up elsewhere in the cycle it also shuts off.
as for the brakes, yeah, they're not the best. But a little fine tuning and some silicone spray on the drums to help wear them in can help also.