RE: Just got the Phoenix Super Decathlon
I had a MAS wooden 14X6 on mine when the left wheel broke and it did the ground spiral, with the tail up and didn't even come close to touching the prop. My .91 FX really likes an APC 15X6, but the extra 1/2 inch over the 14 inch seems like it was pushing it. That is why I went with the 2 3/4 inch replacement wheels. Someone recommended 3" for grass. this would be a very solid suggestion also.
DON'T TRUST THE STOCK WHEELS, mine broke on a paved runway. Granted my plane weighs a little over seven pounds, but they still should not have shattered the hubs like these did.
The weather man is talking more trash weather for this weekend, 3/25-26-06, so doesn't look too good here in central Texas for the fourth weekend in a row. But the rains have come and the fires are out, so there is a silver lining to these clouds.
Good luck to ya'll!!
Update 3/27/06, wind blew intolerably last weekend, so still no flight report. I went out in the wind with the UCD .46 and the new obsession on Saturday, but too chicken to fly a highwing tail-dragger in 20 MPH+ cross winds on a maiden flight, with such a small plane with light wing loading. The obsession went dead stick, but glided easily back over the lake and through the trees, onto the runway without incident.
Maybe next weekend????