Ok, I have been waiting 2 weeks to fly my New Hanger 9 80!QUOT! cub until my instructor was able to meet me. BUT - we were having a HARD time finding a day when the weather, our schedules, etc could all be in agreement. SO - since I have flown alot of electrics I went in to his shop and talked over me soloing it by myself He gave me all the good advice (it will float, take your time setting up your approach....use up elevator to hold the tail down on the takeoff roll, etc...

I setup in the large field I fly electrics in and got it all running and pointed into the wind. On my first takeoff run, things started to get squirrelly so I aborted and taxied back for another try...

The second lifted off steady as a rock, beautiful....My Magnum 61 had plenty of power and it actually started flying around 1/2 throttle, although I powered up to full to get altitude....It was SWEET!

I ended up with around 10 flights this weekend, no mishaps. There were around 3 aborted takeoffs, but I thought that was better than trying to force a bad one.

I also had 3 dead-sticks, but this plane literally floats forever. I was even having to spiral down to lose altitude (my son almost passes out...he is a firm believer in GET IT ON THE GROUND) :P

Thanks for listening....my wife doesn't understand the difference in skill between a 16 oz GWS 109 and a 8 lb gas plane, so I don't get many high 5's from her.

Thanks for listen to me ramble...

Jess