RE: Skymaster Gripen ARF Engine Selection
I don't know if this is going to help you but I have just flown my gripen with a jetcat P-120SE. It's the old heavy gripen and weight's in a 10kg exactly.
I think power levels is a very personal thing and my thing is POWER.
I have flown a Eurosport with a P80 in it and I was dissapointed, this is why I bought the Gripen as it was smaller that the euro and why I bought the more powerful 120SE.
Having said that I also think a rookie II with a p160 is underpowered as well. (I know it's a sickness)
To sport fly the gripen and use the canards to full effect you want the extra power. (O.K I wanted the extra power) I still need more flights to make a final decision.
The full size Gripen is a short take off and landing type aircraft, shouldn't ours be as well??
What I really want to know is can we use full canrad for landing like you can on a rookie?