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Old 01-07-2005 | 05:06 AM
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Lancair-RCU
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Default RE: cap 323

Ive got a 40 Blackhorse Cap232 with OS50SX in it. If I use my elevator high rate setting for anything other than up high snaps and aerobatics when I want it to snap, it will snap easily.
That being said, on low rates its a *****cat. I doesnt tip stall easily like so many rumours about the CAP, its easy to sow right down for landings. In fact after 12 months of flying RC with foamie slope gliders the CAP232 was my first powered plane. I borowed a trainer for a few weeks to get used to the takeoff and landing idea then flew my CAP232.

Shogun, above you mentioned moving the CG back as a possible or part of a cure for the snapping problem ? Surely you meant forward.
Last time I moved my CG back in the CAP it was a handful with pitch at my usual low rate settings. I set my CG at recomended postions then fly, one of the tests I like to use is to enter a 45 degree climb at full power and do a half roll inverted. I set my Cg so the model slowly drops the nose. Inverted straight and level flight usually then needs a touch of down to hold level.