Flew the CAP 4 more times last evening. Flew almost till dark. Had a great time. I routed my vent line as Steve suggested and that seemed to help. I had no deadsticks and I did a dozen or so inverted flat spins (my personal favorite maneuver). Anyways, It seemed to be picking up the throttle quite a bit better but still not quite the same as in level flight.

I did my first waterfall series with this plane. Wow! This thing will just snap on the wind tube. It's a big plane but it waterfalls beautifully. Hardly any elevation loss. I got the KE down low tonight again. Man, for as little time on this plane as I have I'm amazed at how confident I am taking it low.

I have noticed that when you fly out of a blender you better start flying out pretty high up. It doesn't want to come out of the spin willingly. Usually this means you come out in a stalled condition going straight down. You have to allow time to build up enough speed to start pulling up. This is complicated because with the elevator set on med rates there is a real tendency to snap. I dialed in a bunch more expo to make it come out a bit softer. But man...this plane will get very flat. As soon as I throttle up it wants to roll out of the flat spin. So I've got to work on that to get the rising flat spin down.

I'm trying to avoid the "inverted flat spin landing" that I'm so famous, make that infamous, for.

I did some Harriers also. They were pretty good into the wind. But I had a tendency to have the plane blow sideways and then out of the harrier. I'm still working on that. But I didn't experience much wing rock at all.

When I come in for landings, just about at the stall speed the tail drops. If you keep just a tad more speed that doesn't happen. Still, not hard to land, but a little nerve racking if you're not watching right to the ground.

I also noticed a tendency to lift the nose in turns if you don't apply a little rudder. With rudder it appears very scale or normal. No problem, just an observation.

The snap spins on this plane are amazing. It's like you just spin and there is no forward motion till you get it level again. Pretty cool.

Set up time at the field is super easy thanks to the one piece wing. Hauling the plane to the field is awkward thanks to the one piece wing.

I'm still very green to the gas engines but I'm learning fast. Too fast. I already got my second gas plane. This hobby.....


Thanks
Barry