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Old 03-12-2008 | 01:51 PM
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Default RE: What battery for an easy glider?


ORIGINAL: elmog

If you haven't flown RC before I would strongly suggest that you seek out an experienced hand to help you get started.
Too late, flew it crashed it, broke it. Which I knew was going to happen someday, just not on day one.

I have flow R/C stuff in the past, and am an experienced pilot of full scale aircraft, still I knew there will be carnage in my learning experience. I was basically tossing it lightly to try and fine to the trim and controls. I got a few tosses in before my girlfriend joined me in the park and "helped". The landing area was small so I was just giving light tosses off a small ways up the slope. The space was wrong, the hill was wrong, and my idea was wrong. It was basically a series of stall recoveries followed by not so smooth landings, none too rough though. On my last one the horizontal stabilizer caught and broke off taking the rudder with it. The vertical stabilizer broke off clean at the joint, which confirmed my thought it was not on that strongly. Application of the rudder was causing it and the whole horizontal stab to flex in a way I did not like.

It will be an easy fix. I will also flex the hell out of all my control surfaces to get them operating more smoothly and apply some of the fixes if that does not work. I will also contact the local club about getting some help. Problem is: my schedule is a difficult one, I have the new Airtronics 2.4ghz radio, not sure if i can find someone to buddy box with it, and lastly I am just not a patient person. I would love to be able to walk to the park 2 blocks away and fly. Hopefully I can meet up with someone from the local soaring club this weekend to prevent any future carnage.