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Old 09-27-2006 | 05:08 PM
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aenigma
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Default RE: CMPro Giles 202 - 50

Yeah I just flew mine again last night and it turns out I had a habit of mixing opposite rudder with rudder because the only airplanes I ever knife edged are airplanes that don't do anything, so you have to force them to do things like knife edge.Just last night I found out that I only have to add a little bit of aileron towards the high wing to keep it straight, it almost does it by itself.But you are right about it being very snappy, almost seems like too much aileron control at slow speed.I messed around a little bit just to see how it might hover or harrier.Hovering maybe if I get the hang of it, but harrier I really doubt it, way too much wing rock.

This Satio 100 really makes it go, and man does it sound good.Instead of having a regular muffler on it(I never use them on 4 strokes, makes them sound weak) I just used the elbow fitting that goes to the muffler and put rubber muffler extensions on it and you can see it coming out of the bottom of the cowl in my picture up there.It had a really good growl to it when flying by at lower throttle settings.But as I thought would happen the muffler extensions ended up tearing/melting and I am going to have to redo it with something else.I just used those extensions that you usually use on 2 stroke pipes and they don't even get hot compared to 4 strokes.

Oh and as far as CG measurements go they sey to measure from where the aileron ends closest to the fuselage and in the book they say 85-95 and after putting the Saito 100 on I haven't rechecked mine since I don't really worry about nose heavy planes, just tail heavy.But I can tell it is nose heavy since I had to add a bit of up elevator to keep it straight, and it just feels a little mushy at times.

It seems like a fun plane so far even though I have just been flying it to get the hang of it and not really doing anything.I haven't tried a spin yet either, although I was trying a hammerhead and it tried to go in a spin.Not the best place to have that happen though!