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Old 10-15-2002 | 01:43 AM
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daven
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Default Sukhoi First Flight...

8u stepped trim.

Stepping the trim tabs down to 1 is a good idea, but only do it AFTER you have the plane basically trimmed out.

If you are test flying a new plane on Step 1 and its way out of trim, it takes a lot of pushes to get it right. Leave it at 4 until you have it initially trimmed, then you can knock it down to 1 and fine trim it.

I was not thrilled at first with the digital trims, but have learned to really like them. You will get use to them, and I would bet, will actually prefer them after you get use to them.

Set up a Throttle kill switch, so you don't have to use the throttle trim to shut down the engine.

I hope to get the 60 sized yellow Sukoi this winter..