ORIGINAL: kellys1729
Hi
I have an EZ Beaton which I have had for a number of years, it was fitted with an Irvine 53, I thought of putting in retracts but to help keep the weight down I fitted a home made carbon under cart It flyes very well and I am sure it can teach you a lot. But a word of warning watch your slow speed as it does have a habbit of aileron reversal (I found out this the hard way is their any other) This happend when I was flying dead stick comeing in to land at height This reversal also happend to a friend of mine who is very experianced and competes in aerobatics, but he just told me thay it had some unusual flying charetistics As far as the YS goes this is a gret little engine but I think this will be a case of over power for this airframe.
Always fly two mistakes high
Wow! I am not familiar with aileron reversal. What causes it? You are right about the YS and I will probably not use full throttle at all, however I already had the engine and it was about the same weight as the recommended engines. It also fits nicely in the cowling. I also thought that it would help with the extra weight of the retracts. What are some of the other unusual flying characteristics does it have?