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Old 07-21-2008 | 10:24 AM
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Marian
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From: Madrid, SPAIN
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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
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