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Old 12-15-2003, 10:00 AM
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Geistware
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Default RE: Too Much Power?

One of the things that I learned early on is to walk the fields when you are at a new (to you) location. DOing this prevent suprises. I found all kinds of things from tree roots and half buried fences.


ORIGINAL: forestroke

Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended up doing two things 1) put limited the travel to about half throttle and 2) put some throttle aileron mix. It flew extremly well. Problem was that I had set the timer at 10minutes as I always do but the fuel only lasted around 8 minutes and I had to deadstick her. I thought I had done a pretty good job since I set her down pretty softly but it was quite far away. When I went to examine, the right wing had caught a rebar (the steel bars that reinforce concrete) that was sticking out the ground and tore it clean off. The rest of the plane is still "as new". I'm picking up a wing from a friend who had crashed his (planted his into the ground when his receiver battery died) and will be back flying.

The power is still too much but I think I can handle it. :-) By the way, I still fly at half throttle even with all the adjustments. But it's a pretty plane and the sound of that 63 is oh-so-sweet.