sawdust

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I like to use the Easy Star as a sailplane. Mine has a Mega 16/15/4 and a 2100 3 cell lipo. So it gets very high very fast. I use a 6 x 4 prop, extended the rudder 5/8 of an inch, and fixed the wings so they stay on. The wings are still removable.

Rarely do I get less than a 30 minute flight. Most of the time I fly it for 40 minutes and come down. 40 minutes is my physical limit. Anyway flight times have been great. And to date I have never ran the battery down to shut off voltage. I fly it a lot and it does great in 15-20 mph winds.

If you get tired using it as a sailplane, you can do some continuous loops, inside or outside, do a big barrel roll, and do some touch and goes. The Easy Star is probably as durable a plane that you can buy. It is cheap, easy to assemble, and very transportable. And it is fun really fun to fly.

Any body else using the Easy Star as a sailplane? bob

daveosoar

Well, it is, after all, a powered glider.
Daveosoar.

aeajr

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Works pretty well as an electric launced glider. If you use lithiums and get the equipment positioned so that you don't need any nose weight and it will glider great and thermal great and works fine on the slope too.

mjswider

Here is another EZ* slope sailer. I enjoy flying it under power also, but by far the biggest thrill is running it up and down the cliffs along the ocean where I live (So Cal). I am not sure what makes a plane a sail plane, but before I discovered the slopes I would often get my plane really high and just soar it down to low. Never really found any thermals, but I only have maybe 15 flights total if that.