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Old 10-23-2008 | 05:12 PM
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tessmar
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Default RE: First bipe?

I am an old guy who only started in the hobby two years ago. The SIG Hog is my first (and thus far only) bipe. I fly it with a Super Tigre 60 that has plenty of power for my skills. The plane was a good project to build. I did not have previous kit experience in aircraft but have built model rr stuff for decades, which helped with minor parts of instructions that were not crystal clear to me. The plan views are excellent (some I have seen do not provide enough information or views). The plane is strong and stable, and is even fairly easy to control on the ground for a tail dragger. It's rudder is fairly sensitive and it wants to drop the nose on turns but has no really bad habits. It does want to land on a little power but at the same time it doesn't simply drop like a rock on idle. Tower claims you need stronger servos for some of the control surfaces, but I pretty much used standard ones except for a higher torque one on the ailerons (which, oddly enough, Tower does not specify). There is a single servo controlling all four of them and I thought that was a bit marginal with a low torque servo. Perhaps for that reason I find the plane more responsive than I anticipated (very pleasant though).