I bought the Pieco-O-Cake thinking that I want to learn to fly and an instructor is not convienent right now and this might be the right plane to learn on. Well I got it built and flew it three times yesterday. The third flight was successful with nice landing. (I have 14 very short incomplete flights on a now very battered two channel Jr. Falcon from a yardsale prior to this). I put a Norvel .049 with throttle on it by mounting a micro servo on the out side of the fuselage thinking this will make it fly even slower. While in a Hobby Store, a guy told me that the design is a little off because the incidence of the horizontal stabilizor is not the same as the wing so I shimmed up the horizontal stabilizor. I had to add about 25 quarters to the nose to balance it. When I hand launched it it flew straight and slightly climbed. It was trimmed real close. The first flight I forgot about the throttle and flew it full speed until it ran out of fuel. The long glide phase was great because the plane was slow. I hit a tree in landing. The second flight I remembered the throttle and slowed it down and it flew great. Hit the powerlines on landing. By the third flight I was caught up enough with the plane to try to trim it but couldn't find the trim buttons without taking my eyes off the plane. (I hear that will cost you).

I believe this plane will teach me to fly. After hooking up the servos and not having a computer radio, I wish I had hooked up the rudder servo to my aileron stick. The throttled engine helped but without one is OK because all I was trying to do was get altitude before I ran out of gas.

Your plans look like a version before mine. Mine has pushrod tubes instead of balsa. I don't have scanning abilities but the book is handy. If you have no plane modeling experience then the book is even more useful.

GLF