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Old 01-01-2005 | 04:44 PM
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Default RE: Kat 40 Dude!!

Ok woooohooooooooo I finally got to fly mine today. Brief flight report. I didnt get many pics an the ones I do have on disk arent reading right for some dumb reason. Also I ran up to Canton NC to fly with Capman at his field. Turns out the eleavation is about 1300 feet higher then where I fly. I about went crazy trying to get my webra dialed back in. Never got it quite right.

I started off with the CG ? wherever it balanced out with no weight
That seemed to be slightly nose heavy so I strapped my 4way wrench to the tail That did the trick.....maybe a little to much actually. It climbed slightly when inverted as well as having to hold a little down elevator when landing.

Blenders: entered them very crisply an fairly violent. The tail really pops around!
On into an inverted flat spin.....nice flat spin that slowly looses altitude, I couldnt quite get it to climb. Maybe some more CG work an throws.

Inverted harriers. I think this is one of the planes best maneuvers. Just floats down out of the sky with hardly any correction. It may be even better then my chuckflyer!

Hovering. Very stable but with my engine problems it caused issues Still got in a cpl 9's.

Upright harrier: Still has some of the wing rock the older P model had. I havent tried any mixing. I did manage to drag the tail down the runway a time or so. At one point it was in some tall grass beside the runway an jerked a bunch of grass out in the elevator counterbalance. I nearly lost it right after that as it jammed it up an I was heading right into the flight line inverted with almost NO down elevator......It popped free an I did a nice inverted wall right over the pits. Around 60 degrees AOA it does start to smooth out btw.

TRing. Because of my engine problems I never was able to get much going on. I did manage a cpl aileron assisted rolls.

Knife Edge. This is probably ties as the best maneuver this plane does. Hi alpha knife edge is slow an sweet with very little coupling. Almost none at my forward CG slightly more back farther.

This one is a keeper. Once I get my engine back in tune where Im comfortable bringing it down on the deck an wringing it out Ill update my opinions on it. This was one of those days where I never quite felt comfortable an my thumbs showed it.
Overall one of the better planes Ive flown....especially the inverted harriers... . With 10 being perfection Id say we are looking at about a 9. Ive never flown a perfect plane....but this one comes close

Special thanks to Capman for helping me with the webra ( he had his yellow Accel Katana GS there ) an welcome to the brotherhood!