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Old 03-15-2007 | 07:55 PM
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Default RE: GP Venus II


ORIGINAL: cmoulder

Okay, you hit the spoileron switch right as you touch down, or on the approach? Which switch do you use? Sorry for the dumb questions, but I've been flying only about a year and a half...

-- Bob
I usually hit the switch on the down wing leg before turning on final. I also have a bit of up elev. mixed in otherwise she'll drop her nose big time when you switch the spoilerons. I actually still have to hold a bit of up also on the stick. As I approach the runway I relax the elev. stick a bit at a time and it heads for the runway like a homesick dove. It drops and slows down veeery fast and of course I flare just before I touch down. Maybe it sounds complicated but after 5 or 6 landings it all becomes automatic.

What switch do I use ? Well I have not flown this plane since Sept. and I don't remember [&o] It is a JR 8103 and I THINK I use channel 7 as the activater. Make sure you mark the aileron wires because if you hook them up backwards you will have Flaps not spoilers. On the 8103 anyway. Hook them up and practice in your backyard.

They work very well on the Venus II but I tried them on my Typhoon and they don't work worth a darn. The Typhoon is better with flaperons. I f you think the Venus floats you should try a Typhoon. On a calm day you throttle back to idle when the plane is just a speck in the sky. Landing and getting stopped on a 300' paved runway becomes a fine art.