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Old 09-14-2003 | 10:42 AM
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southern_touch9
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Not a bad job for your first time covering. About the tail wheel: If you power it with a saito .72 you wont have to worry about staying on the ground for over 3 seconds. Mine rolls for about 30 feet and when I yank it off the ground it will climb forever. The reason I picked the .72 instead of a .50 is b/c I wanted great power. I can take off and go from 6ft. off the deck to a wall to a hover with EXTRA power to spare. If your hovering on the deck and you get in trouble you can just punch the .72 and the plane blast out of trouble. It kind of sounds funny hovering at such a low setting but man does it have the thrust. The wing loading is not increased enough to tell a difference with the .72. I can put fly it inverted with a good stiff 10 mph breeze blowing and make it look like a kite.
I think you will enjoy this plane. It will do most of the 3D stuff cleanly and it lands twice as slow as your trainer. As far as the flight characteristics go its the best 2nd airplane I know of on low rates and a low throttle setting. PLEASE and I cant emphasis this enough, PLEASE use your throttle only when you have to and keep in mind that this thing is built light, a power on dive with a sharp jerk could cause serious problems. The only time mine sees full throttle is on take off (and thats only if I am going to do something crazy right after I break ground), powering out of a hover or torque roll, and when I am doing waterfalls it sees a short blast to full throttle here and there. For your first flight you might want to keep those rudder and elevator rates on low (20% deflection or so on the elevator).

HAVE FUN