The alternative would be to make a second wing, without retracts. A lot of the warbibird guys do that, so they have a sport plane for easy flying and on rough fields. Easily done, since you are doing a tail dragger, although you may need to mark 2 different battery locations.
Don
ORIGINAL: viva_peru
Hello guys,
Thanks for the info. I fly off grass and we do have a reasonably nice field so I think that the retracts would work, specially if the plane comes at the lower end of the allowable weight for the gear. My intent is to build the plane as a tail dragger in part to save some weight on the landing gear but also in order to give myself more room under the nose/ over the wing to fit the ESC and battery. The plane will be electric. That is why I thought the E-flites would work; they allow me to tap into the battery that I already have and skip the additional servo.
I would like to use the plane as a parkflyer/practice plane so I will also be looking for good performance. If I think the gear will add too much weight, I might go for a simply fixed gear or even a belly lander. I am not a bad pilot, but I would not consider myself a great pilot either, but for the most parts my landings are pretty smooth so I think I could make the retractable gear work. Actually, the only 10 I ever received in competition (flying sportsman right now) was for one of my landings at the last contest.
Thanks for the advice,
Teo