How's it going all? Does anyone have a UCD .46?? I have about 30 flts on mine and I like it so far.. Anyone else??[8D]

have you read the 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000033 33333333333388888888888855577777777777777777666666 6666666666666939 threads on it .everybody has one fun plane with a satio 100.

Well almost everyone talks about the 60 size.. I have flown both and you can't compare the two..
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http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/U%2D..._817264/tm.htm

Amen

Hay......Play nice or go to your room....LOL....he's new to the site...give hime time .....JW

Naa I was just wanting to get a forum going about flying the thing, not about how the muffler's keep falling off or crap like that... Or the good one "How big an engine can I put on this 46 UCD??? Try this, The size it was designed to fly 3D with... But ohh well maybe some people need all the help they can get.. Sorry to bother all of you!! This used to be a hobby full of great people..

If you ask a question that someone brought up a year ago you will get the same response. They can spend five minute's bad mouthing you, but won't answer your question. Some of these threads are 100 pages or more. You might have to spend three four hours of reading to find a one sentence answer.
They find time to make fun of you, but not to answer your question. Maybe it makes them feel like experts.

I AM an expertJk, your right

BWGREEN, i have one with a Satio 1.00 on mine and love it also, lots of power.

But ohh well maybe some people need all the help they can get.. Sorry to bother all of you!! This used to be a hobby full of great people..
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dude the hobby is still full of great people. i just thought that thread mite help you. there is a lot of u can do's out there. after a while when you see that name you think it says i can go nuts. i have flown 7 big and 3 small ones . its getting like tv to many reruns .[8D]

How about flight characteristics of the ucd 46? Mine has a Saito 100 on it, at 5000 feet, turning a 16x4 apc at 9300. It is my second ucd, oops. I ran flaperons on the old one, and spoilerons on the current model. With spoilerons it will waterfall like mad but falls to the side, probably because the motor is sideways and I didn't lateral balance the plane. Elevators wing rock like crazy with spoilerons on. I could get the old plane with an mvvs 77 to do inverted climbing flat spins out of a waterfall, but haven't been able to on the new one. I haven't done much harriering with the spoilerons, without it wing rocks. Knife edge takes a lot of aileron to hold, just a touch of elevator when inverted flying.
Blenders start out well then slow into a floppy spin.
My cg is a hair over 6 inches, the plane weights 6 lbs 2 oz.

This is all at the hands of a rookie pilot, maybe with more stick time I can get the wing rock tuned out.

Think I should lateral balance it?

probably not lateral balance, you might need more right thrust. I had to add quite a bit to mine, it was very ugly to fly without it. (with no wind, go straight up with enough throttle that it will stop and fall back. does it do an automatic hammerhead at the top or fall straight back before turning?)

I had to add 1/16 shim of right to mine before it would hold a decent vertical line.. You may do a lat bal, but it sounds more like a thrust problem.. Also mine had ALOT of up-thrust built into the firewall, a 1/4 inch to be exact..