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Old 05-27-2015 | 02:48 PM
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No, but mods often help a plane behave better. I had a friend that built a very nice Fleet and I flew it at shows for him. He installed a gyro on the rudder to help him keep it straight. It worked and was on a switch but if you forgot to flip the switch after take off it fought you during flight.
I once had a take off mode set up in a Bipe I had built, it was just some right rudder added for take off but like the gyro, if I forgot to flip the switch it was out of trim in flight. I soon removed the feature after I got used to the way the plane handled on the ground. It just takes some time. The fellow I gave that plane to had a heck of a time with it on take off but we were on a lake bed so he just let it go where it wanted to. He ended up crashing it a few weeks later so it didn't mater.