ORIGINAL: speedracerntrixie
ORIGINAL: Hill202
The maiden was successful. I have to say its a great flying plane. The DLE 55 was plenty of power for it.<span style=''color: rgb(255, 0, 0);''> I think I need to move the CG forward some as it was a little too pitchy for me.
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Its a keeper, so if you're on the fence about an AW, I'd say get one and look it over real good as you're putting it together.
How much elevator throw and expo are you running? Did you have to put in any down trim? Up trim? It may just be a matter of reducing throw and/or increasing expo. I would have set it up for the test hop with 15 degrees elevator travel and 30-35% expo.
Thats pretty much where I was with it. I think I'm at 18 degrees and 40% expo. One other thing, when landing it did not want to sink. I was having to really push the nose down to get it to settle in. It almost wanted to lift when I throttled back. In other words, at about 15 or 20 feet it wanted to keep flying. I was pushing the nose down alot to get it down. ( if that makes sense). Some of the guys were speculating a thrust line issue or maybe moving the CG forward more.
I had to put a couple of clicks of down trim in it.