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Old 08-11-2008 | 12:07 PM
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Default RE: stopping!

Yup as he said, what you are experiencing is symptomatic of running a larger than recommended engine on a plane.

If you stick with the recommended props, the extra/excess thrust causes the plane to be pulled along the runway.

Since the plane already has velocity at landing, it doesn't slow down.

The fix is as John said, a lower pitched wider prop.

Even at fairly low idle my Funtana would take too much runway to slow down, that is until I changed to a 16x4W prop which did the trick.