Originally Posted by Len Todd

About the Flash snapping, … My UltraFlash snapped 5 different times on me when making landing approaches, in my first year with it. I learned to stay off the rudder and keep the nose slightly down until a few feet from the ground, then flatten, and then start to raise the nose slightly and then when the mains are on the ground, make sure the nose comes down by itself versus letting off on the Elev. and forcing it down. (I learned this from a very experienced flash pilot who was not having any issues.) Once I got into that routine, I never had another issue with snapping or landing approaches. I do tend to still come in fast as I too am still a bit nerve wracked from the past snaps. I am sure keeping the speed up helps too. But, staying off the rudder helped me the most. After coming in fast, then there is a lot of braking to do. One needs a good brake controller to maintain control, especially with electric brakes. I have tried 4 different E-controllers and currently am about to test the LG15 on the next flight. It seems to be the only one that works well enough to avoid brake dancing.

Cheetahs are great engines. The only thing that I have seen come up with our jet guys that use them is the brushless starter upgrades use a lot of battery. Not sure if the new ones have that solved or not. Have only seen a couple come back from their routine service with the brushless starter upgrade and the owners were really POed cause they could only get two flights off their batteries that used to give them 5 flights before the upgrade. Other than that they seen to be great turbines with lots of power. Very reliable in starts too.