Dave Patrick Edge 540T Arrived TODAY!!!
Well, I made my second flight today and talk about a night and day difference. I haven't measured it exactly, but I have moved the CG forward fairly significantly and it is still just a bit tail heavy, but in a good way for aerobatics. I think I might move it forward a tad bit more, but not much. My problems with pitch instability on approach are gone, and the plane just floats down the runway until touchdown at a walking pace. It did have a bit of a nose up and ballooning tendancy when the power is cut, but I'll work that out in the balance. I had a bit of a frequency glitch problem during the flight, so I am changing over from my Airtronics FM setup to a Futaba PCM setup on the same channel to see if that fixes the glitches. I think with all of the metal pull-pull linkages, all of the batteries, and the CH ignition, there might just be a little to much RF noise for the FM receiver. Hopefully the switch to PCM cleans things up a bit. So basically for all of you building yours out there, don't be afraid to build it with a CG forward of what is recommended in the manual. It REALLY calms this plane down and I think it is going to turn out to be a real ***** cat once I get the bugs worked out.