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Old 07-15-2009 | 07:40 AM
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Default RE: maiden cap flight

Great, and congrats!!!

Next thing you might want to do is see just how slow you can get it to land safely.

Go up, what we call in the business.. three mistakes high, and point it into the wind. Then slowly drop the throttle and carefully watch what it does, trying, at the sametime, to monitor your throttle setting. When it dips to one side or the other, you've reached the stall point (for that wind speed). If it's calm, all the better because you can truly see what happens with no wind and can then judge your throttle setting for landing accordingly.

Good luck with it. Just keep the pointy side facing forward and the wheels on the bottom and you should be ok.. [X(]