Dreamer
Hi,
A couple of weeks ago I finished this kit. I enjoyed a lot building it, no problem at all.
As this is my first biplane I hesitated a little bit before the first fly but than I flipped the propeller and "Let´s go ..."
I am experienced pilot (3D , pattern), but I was really busy to fly this one:
During the take off it moves on runway as on rails. Airborne: it gains altitude smoothly. When I try to make the first turn, at the beginning everything goes well, but suddenly it falls on wing. I was able to gain speed and level it, but from that moment I was much more tense. I tryed to land it at relatively high speed (just estimation, but it seems no coreect) but about 20 m before the runway the plane did not react to elevator and landed softly by itself.
The second fly was a little bit better: I added exponential to ailerons and throw to elevator. The take off was again very easy. I made all turns extremelly carefully to not repeat the same error.
I went for landing at much higher speed that with my pattern plane. The result was that I needed a lot of runway, but once it touched land it was again "as on rails".
CG is accoding to plans.
Is this behaviour normal for biplanes / Dreamer and I should get used to it, or should I check something?
Regards,
Marian