ORIGINAL: overbored77
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those other flyers are taking forever if you got two flights in before they got off the ground at all. They only have maybe 30-45 seconds more pre-flight to do than you do, they should have been queued up on the taxiway. I know I would have been. Takes me longer just to get set up than it does to get my glow cars running around, not gonna putz around with the plane either. Rx pack charged up? connections good? Surfaces wiggling right? Noise coming out of the engine? Time for takeoff
Actually if you can fuel up the plane, start and warm up the engine, make sure the engine is tuned. in 30-45 seconds than you are the best I have
ever seen. All the electric guys has to do is plug in a battery connector.
I keep my engines tuned in such a matter that I don't have to touch the needles from spring to late fall, and then a slight richening on the HSN has it set through the winter. I may drop 200-500RPM on the top end that way, but honestly, having a glow engine that's as plug and play as any brushless setup is well worth it. My touring car is set up that way, I literally don't have to do anything more than fuel it up and start it, and it's good to go now through mid September or so.
So yeah. I'd have it on the runway within 60 seconds of getting it started.