My buddy has a edge but i don't remember the size, a glow 120 size engine. He flew this last weekend and it flys good but it becomes a handfull on landing. If you come in hot any slight touch on the elev or gust of wind and it goes skyward, Being low on fuel and seeing him getting agitated l told him just to hold the glide slope till touchdown everything looked great untill the 2 foot mark them it just lost all lift and dropped square on the landing gears, ripping them off, nothing major. I would like to help him get this plane landing well but since i fly scale i am a novice on these 3d types. I am thinking it might be a cg issue but then again thats why i am here to get your imput or ideas on this matter.

Is he landing on low rates or high rates ? If the cg isa little aft within thereccomendedrange, itwill slow down a littel better, but if the cg is anywhere near correct, the Edge does not need to land that hot. They are very light and will respond quickly to any added power or headwind, but they will slow down very nicely when you learn how. They do take a little practice tolearn how to flair without ballooning back up or stalling out.My guess is he justneeds to practice his glide slope and practice stalling it out at a higher altitude to get a feel for how slow he can go with it before he has to add in some throttle again. If the plane is too responsive onhigh rates, then he needs touse low rates or tame down the throws on his elevator. He may also needto modify his approach to come in a little steeper with less power before he flairs so that there is less chance of stalling and groundeffectwill play a lesser role.
If there is a club with an instructor near you, it would be well worth it to get some experienced one-one-one help.

Thanks hugger i will discuss the rates settings with him. He flys jets most of the time so getting this right on this type of aircraft is something new, will see what happens.

Maybe he has his idle set too high

This is an aerobat... landing requires flying it all the way to the ground... if the elevator is too sensitive... maybe it could use some expo to soften it up a bit. I would wonder if the rates are even set on it.. or maybe they're still set too high... What you experienced was a stall obviously.. flying to slow will induce one of these. The key is to keep the power to it, while flying it right down to the runway.. a few inches from touchdown is when you go to idle... other then that you're maybe 1/4throttlle... the plane should be stable enough though... once the elevator issue is worked out.

Most of these aerobats are capable of doing touch-n-go's at half-throttle.. they are that stable... but when it comes to landing them its a common problem for those with less experience to want to glide them in, rather then fly them in... it might take a few times of gluing the gear back on to really grasp this concept.. but just keep it flying until the front wheels touch down.. if that's too "hot" for your friend.. well.. maybe a different type of plane is in order until he gets used to it.. I am reading this is a 1.20size plane... which is a bit bigger/heavier... not big enough to be giant... but it does still carry some weight..which will make landing a bit more tricky..in that it will tend to seem fast..and probably is faster then say a .40size plane of similar type.


Good luck..

Have him do low approaches and touch an go's
the touch an go's will teach him alot about his plane.