ORIGINAL: Rocketman_
Holy moly, AstroMan!! Your UCD 46 weighs only 5 1/4 pounds with fiberglass reinforcing? Thats a very light weight UCD 46. It should be a super performer with the Saito 72 you're using. If it doesn't blast straight up out of a hover it may mean that your scale is wrong.
My UCD 46 weighs 6 1/2 pounds with a Saito 72 and I'm using 30% fuel to get good acceleration out of a hover. My UCD must be way heavier than everybody else's. If my scale is wrong it can't be reading more that 1/4 pound high.
Yes, 5.25 lbs. and that includes carbon fabric reinforcing on the gear block but I'll double check my scale, and try another one just to make sure, though it doesn't feel that heavy. I was worried about the CG but after stuffing the batteries up against the firewall it came out ok at 5.5" My only real weight saving measure was using an HS-81 for the throttle. Haven't flown yet, waiting for wifey's permission
