Well I maidened mine today... pretty windy but still had some fun.

The 1.60FX with a Bisson inv. pitts has lots of power for this plane... unlimited vertical with rolls on the way up...a nd that's a new engine on it's second tank... running the APC 18x6W.

Though some might think there would be fuel draw issues due to the lower tank, I didn't find that at all... I set it up stock, started the engine, set the high end and she never leaned or richened the whole first flight of 8 minutes.

My all up weight is right at 12 lbs with a single Futaba digital rudder servo on pull-pull and a mini coreless on the throttle and a 6 volt, 1700 mah NiMH. That's with pants and spinner. My CG is 1/2" behing the suggested 5.75" from leading edge at fuse... so I was at 6.25". I want to experiment with it some.

As I suspected, it ehxibits some of the "snappiness" of the CAP design, but not as much as other CAPs I've flown. Certainly handleable and predictable. Basically if you hammer the elevator, it will drop the right wing. But it recovers VERY quickly.

Because of this design element, it does some really wild snap rolls, especially negative snaps. Upright flat spins were very slow and pretty flat, while the inverted seemed faster and with a tad bit more nose down attitude.

The wind was really pushing me around so I didn't get to try much hovering, but it felt like it was gonna hang in there.

I hope to get moretime this weekend for a more thorough analysis. Then I'll get the RCU review written up and submitted.