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Old 08-10-2004 | 10:23 PM
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Default RE: 35% Giles...

ORIGINAL: les2097

I bought a 35% Wild Hare Giles from a friend... it has a BEASTY ZDZ 80 single on it with pretty good Hitec servos...

The problem I have with the plane is on landing... it seems to bounce... ?? !! Two feet off the ground ... I ease it down... and it bounces...? into the air and wants to fly again... I have to keep some speed on it on landing as if it gets too slow... it tip stalls...!!

Any suggestions or tips... ??? I sure could use them...

Thanks

Larry
Larry - the WH giles you built for me (the RCU giles) also did the same for me on a paved runway. It just didn't want to come down. I attributed it to the idle maybe being a bit too high but not sure. I have to get more flights on it to get a better handle on it. Only flown it a handful of times due to time constraints and non-cooperative weather in the last year. There was another WH 35% giles at the sussex show that I flew at that also did the bounce thing. Somebody at that meet told me they heard this was not totally uncommon with this plane. I still would guess if you bled off the right amount of airspeed and got the idle low enough it just would stop flying. It does weight over 20lbs afterall