ORIGINAL: elan120

Well, I had a chance to maiden the plane during lunch today, my impression from the first two flights were very positive. The power from this Extreme Flight motor/ESC combo was more than enough, in fact, on the second flight I found myself using less and less power on the verticals. Once I have the initial trimming done, I will experiment with 15X7 APC-e to see how that works.

I used far less throws on the elevator and aileron than factory recommendation, and I will cut it down even more before next flight. The factory recommended CG was very close, I moved the CG back slightly on the second flight, and the inverted flight was a little better, but the required down elevator still is a tad more than my liking, which I will try to move CG back a little further and see if that will improve more. Knife edge was pretty solid with the recommended 6% mix from rudder to down elevator, but I need more testing to get that finalized. Down line tracking was very straight with a hint of moving to the belly on very long lines, but I had 2% down elevator mixed in with throttle idle, I might either reduce the mix to 1% or taken out altogether. Rudder response was very positive, which make point rolls and slow rolls very easy.

One other thing I felt positive was the down line speed, it was slow enough that I keep on reducing the throttle on verticals to match the speed, and the second flight was definitely slower than the first, which presents better in the air. Overall, I am very happy with the result from this first trip, and I will find some more time this week to continue on the trimming.