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Old 02-21-2006 | 02:39 AM
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Default RE: First low wing - Phoenix Models CAP 232??

Most low wing aircraft fly a bit differently from high wing aircraft. Or at least differently from high wing trainers.

Models such as the CAP, Extra, Giles 202, etc., are designed to become unstable very easily. Stable models do not snap or spin very well. The previously mentioned aerobatic models depend on becoming unstable very easily in order to do what it is that they do - aerobatics.

A model such as the Four Star Forty will be nearly impossible to snap or spin if set up according to the instructions. A CAP or Extra will quite readily go into a snap roll or a spin if too much elevator is used. You do not want a model that flies this way for your first low wing airplane. You have enough new flying information to learn without having a model that will crash by simply moving the elevator stick a little too far.

I am not familiar with the Phoenix CAP, but if it was designed and constructed like the majority of CAP models, I would pass this one buy until I had more stick time flying a less aerobatic low wing model. After all, the point is to have fun. Crashing is not fun to me.