As you know, my posts have been based on flying my Nephew's Sky Fly when I visited him in Texas. Well I finally got one of my own. He is comeing to visit his Uncle Eddy for some flying lessons, so I though it would be best to teach him on the plane he has.

I was testing it out and I noticed something that I wanted to bring to everyone's attention. It is on the radio.

Next to the throttle stick is a trim tab, similar to what is on the rudder and elevator. Now, normally that would change the idle setting on a glow plane but we really don't use it much on electrics. Mine was set all the wan down. Just for the heck of it I moved it up. Guess what! The speed of the motor went up about 25%

I tried it several times with the same results.

If you have not moved this tab, push it all the way up and leave it there. It seems to be limiting the top speed of the motor.

:-)

If your Sky Fly seems to be a bit under powered, this may be the reason. I don't know if this is unique to how this one arrived or if they all come set like this, so check yours. If you get a different result, let us know!


Edit: Re the throttle trim tab. If you have not moved this tab, push it so it stands straight up, but not all the way forward. If you push it all the way forward,and leave it there the ESC does not recognize that the throttle is at zero when you attach the battery. The safety then won't allow you to start the motor. This is a good safety feature that prevents the motor from coming on if you forget to
pull the throttle to zero. So set the tab so it stands straight up and leave it there and you should get full throttle AND the throttle safety should continue to work properly.