Mark,

Have to disagree on landing the Reaper or Draco. And ecoliburger listen up too.

Here is the trick. On what would be your normal gear down check pass, keep the plane high and reduce power to idle and pitch the nose up a bit. Once you feel the controls getting a little mushy start to add power. If it gets too mushy then drop the nose a bit. But keep adding a bit of power until you regain positive control with the nose pitched upwards. This will put the plane into what is known as slow flight. You may have to bump the throttle just 1 or 2 clicks up or down to get the right feel. Fly your normal landing leg as your would any other plane. As you setup for landing once you know you will make the runway, start reducing the power and pitch the nose up just a little more to maintain a nose high attitude. A bump of power may be necessary depending on the wind. Hold this configuration until you are over the runway and then go to idle and hold the flare off until it settles on it's own. That's all there is to making good landings with the Reaper or Draco.

Unfortunately I discovered this 4 flights before I put my Reaper into a fence coming in on final. I did not pay attention to the increased wind speed and got it too slow on final. Yes, too slow which is funny because everyone knows that these delta wing jets like to float on by. But in slow flight configuration it can get too slow if you don't adjust the power to compensate for the wind.

ecoliburger give this a try once you get your Draco in the air and you will not have any problems.

JR