Well this is my first post and I thought I could share it with someone else that may be interested In this Plane. Im flying a Newsed ( 8 years old but refinsished) Lanier Laser 200 33%. It has a zdz 80 engine. and all Hitec gear. The aftermatket stuff is the balsa covered turtle deck instead of the plastic one that comes with kit and a 2 piece cowl. I have played around with the CG and my favorite position is pretty much right on the center of the aluminum wing tube. The bad characteristic of this plane is when to much elevator is applied she will try and snap on you. It really flys on the edge and is not for the begginer pilot thats for sure. Other than that and needing a little more surface on the tail it flys great. The plane has about 1 degree right thrust and about the same down. Im fixing to take out the down becaue on uplines it seems to pull to the gear. So i will try that first b4 adjusting ailerons. As far as IMAC flying it does great. Its like on rails!!! You dont have to muscle the rudder around much in the wind and the upline is straight up. And witht he zdz 80 it does just that. It will hover at a little below half throttle. It really doesnt like to 3D much but it can do the basic stuff. I tryed a wall but that snappy elevator doesnt allow it to do it really well. It torque rolls great. Blenders are nice, and it does a nice slow flat spin. Im flying a big prop on the zdz engine and it pulls the crap out of it. The prop I am using is a Bambula 26x10. I want to try a 26x8 next. I cant say much about what size is best becaue i have only used this one and it does good. Nice and slow with no prop noise..Well thats about it. I flew it in the IMAC South Central Regionals and it got me 4th in basic. Oh yeah. its a tough bird too. I had a mishap on take off when the motor died and it took a hard enough landing to bend the pigsnot out of the landing gear and it just loosened the firewall. A little work and it was fine.
Well there you have it.. Great plane for the price. Lanier RC has this in a kit form or ARF. Excellent plane for Basic, Sportsman class.