Re: Rascal Forty and Extra Weight

Ed, I have a home made glow driver in my Rascal Forty, It includes a micro switch, wiring, an external off/on toggle switch, a battery holder, and a sub-c cell. I have never flow the plane without it, so I don't know what difference it made in the way it flies.

However, I have also flown this plane with a camcorder, 3 feet of coax cable, and an additional external camera lens housed in a rubber housing with a mount attached to it. That extra amount of weight in my Rascal Forty was unnoticeable in the way it flew.

I only say this to suggest to Keith that he need no worry much about the weight of a glow driver system in his Rascal Forty. Other planes may have other situations.