No problem Ed, I appreciate the input.
Well I got to fly her today, a member of my club helped me tune it and got it running good.
so first flight only needed a little trim, and got her flying stright. Engine was running okay but I was worried about it, Done normal stright passes to see how it was doing then I did a Roll , WOW that was fast for pattern, So fliped to low rates and tryed again, Much better that looked like a Pattern roll to us.
next thing you know I was doing stall turns, 4 point rolls, 3 continuious rolls, half cuban 8's whatever you can name. the wind calmed down so i could land right to left ( uphill and everyones choice at my feild) so i went for it, first landing was great.
got it on the table and trimed out my trim in the radio, and gave myself some more rudder control and got it working the same both ways.
2nd flight was good but a little out of trim from the re trim got it trimed out and flew around same stuff as first flight. then it started raining so had to come in early, that was a short flight.
Checked things over while it rained and found the round piece at the nose of the plane was loose, so i glued it with some CA and flew after the rain.
Wow some people online had me scared, I am glad i do not listen to everyone, i had read this is a bad plane to do 4 point rolls with, well I done 4 point rolls w/o issues and then thought hey lets see if it knife edge. well it will KE as well as my 3D planes, I KE the lengh of my feild no problems at all.
So it was a good day at the feild, wish could have flown more but worried about the tank, I am about to try to add a header tank and hope that fixes the fuel issue. so i can get lots more flying done on this plane.
ORIGINAL: Ed Cregger
If it runs good on 10% and you can stand the fuel consumption, don't bother changing. I was just trying to tell you how to get the most flight time out of a gallon of fuel. The nitro percentage of the fuel does have an important impact upon fuel consumption. Of course, this also depends upon your tuning habits, type of prop used, glow plug, ambient weather conditions, etc. Have fun.
Ed Cregger