Hey guys,

I just got in from flying my Extra today, I got three flights in...I'll have a bunch of pictures to post as soon as my buddy gets them email to me.

Today was good and bad, all three of my flights were great, I'm still trying to get used to landing at such a high rate of speed, the logging dry land I fly off of is pretty big but it still seems small. I bent my landing gear a couple of times but hand straighten them out without a problem.

One question for you guys, I have dual rates on my Futaba EXA 6, what percentage would or do you set your high and your low rates at I have the lows at 40% right now but it still seems like too much and the highs at 100%.

One sad note, the young guy that I fly with just got his Vector Flight Sukhoi finished yesterday, he came out to maiden it, he took off and got her all trimmed out perfect, she flew like an arrow...snap rolls, total vertical the whole nine yards until he was out over the water and his brand new OS .91 flamed out...

He spun the bird around and lined her up for the threshold of the dry land, he had to dive pretty hard to build up enough air speed to make it back, at the last second of the dive he pulled up to flair thinking he would make it he came up three feet short of the end and didn't make it up over the end and smacked it into the rocks, she blew up on impact and everything fell into the ocean.

We ran over and got everything out of the water...and ran home to dry things off..
I soaked the receiver and servos in alcohol, then dried them of with a hair dryer...to our amazement everything still worked !!! we stripped the engine down and soaked it in a WD 40 type stuff...then reassembled it...everything looks good except the plane (Which is a total write off)...

I'll get the pictures uploaded here as soon as I get them...I hope to be flying again tomorrow...

Good Flights and Good Landings to all...

Sam