Eight more flights over this weekend, the Bolt is everything I expected and a little more. As my usual process I have been flying it with very little gyro dialled in so I could balance all the controls with movement and expo. Once this process is complete adding gyro generally just makes a model even better. A bit like my UF the Bolt flys really well without a gyro, after six flights I started adding gyro percentage to the 15% I had set for the test flight and as expected it’s just getting more and more locked in. I didn’t end up with any mixes before adding the gyro with my balance position just behind the wing fixing screw, gear down, landing fuel in the tanks. Timer is at 7 minutes with the JetCat P-220 and I’m landing with safe fuel when using full power-people commented today it accelerates going vertical from a slow pass.
One of the things that amused me is the surprise people showed at how slowly it lands, I guess the thought is it’s a high speed machine, but the speed range is massive.
I hope to get someone to video it soon.