I've just been tuning my engine a bit. What are you running? I would definitely rule out 'number 4' !


The best way to tune an engine would be to do the hover>full throttle>lean or rich to suit. But if you are uncomfortable with taking it up higher then I don't think you will really need to fine tune your engine, just keep it at factory setting, then once you are able to fly circuits etc then you will benifit more when the engine has been fine tuned. Whilst hovering, you will seldom notice any difference with the mixture settings off the factory ones, as long as you don't richen/lean it too much.

Number one is reasonable, I would get a large plank through the skids and peg it to the ground either side and chuck some large bricks on. But you are limited to what you would achieve as you really need to fine tune it to it's normal flying conditions.

Sitck with the basic settings, if it's boggy in the hover then lean the main screw a bit at a time ( 2 clicks at a time), or if it's screaming and after a minute or two it starts to die down, then you're too lean so just richen it. From there you could just fiddle with your idle mixture a tiny bit and then fly, you will only need fine tuning to make sure your headspeed doesn't die off in the middle of a piro-flippin loop

James