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Old 08-20-2003 | 02:16 AM
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pdansalvish
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Default Great Planes Cessna 182

Well after 6 months, my wife and I finally got her Cessna airborne tonight. We both believe we received a Friday or Monday plan. Because the part's fit was lousy and we were missing hardware. We spent about 3 hours trying to get the plastic fairings on the wing struts and we finally gave up. I sprayed the wood hold downs with white paint and the look fine.

As for flying, we have a Satio 56 in the nose and the plane turned out a little nose heavy. The first flight went well, we had to feed in almost all of the right airleon and two clicks of down. On landing we broke the nose gear tubing. But in the air the plane looked really nice.

The mods I did tonight was to add 1 degree of right thrust into the engine and replace the plastic Rodi on the nose gear. Tomorrow, I will see if any of the changes help the plane.

The plane looks good and nice in the air. I wouldn't recommend the plane to a new flyer or builder.