ORIGINAL: mach2
ORIGINAL: wjcalhoun
Jeremy
Nice maiden
As jstanton said, bouncy landings are common, and are often related to landing speed that is too fast. This plane will keep flying at a remarkably low airspeed. In my experience, the key to landing this extremely clean airframe well is a low idle. Consider using the idle-down feature on your radio, so that your in flight idle is reliable (~2400), but your landing idle is SLOW (~1700). With a higher pitched prop (10 or 12), even this low idle might not allow the airframe to slow below flying speed. In that case, spoilerons (not flaperons) might kill enough lift and add enough drag to let you settle her onto the runway (without inducing tip stall tendencies the way that flaperons can) without bounce.
And that's exactly what happened. It idled down great without the cowl, and landed great. With the cowl on, it didn't idle down and wanted to keep flying. I should have the "choking cowl" issue resolved. I opened up the bottom of the cowl ALOT and also put a small hole in the top so that I can make carb adjustments without the hassle of removing the cowl every time i need to make an adjustment.....
Im using a Y connector for the ailerons to keep an open channel for my smoker. i am using one channel to power the battery, but now that i know that I can still use the channel and power the reciever via a Y connector on that channel, I might look into removing the aileron Y and use independent channels for the ailerons and set up spoilerons.
THANKS!
Jeremy
Opps, I didn't mean to quote myself.....can a mod delete this post?
thanks