RE: GP Extra 300S 60 Build
Oh also, this screwed me up pretty good. The plans show 1/2 degree of downthrust. I had to put it to 1.5 degrees of down thrust to get the flight right. She floated like CRAZY with .5 degrees of downthrust. I over shot the runway 3 times trying to bring her in. 1 click of power too little and stalling 2 clicks of power and she was climbing... It was a bear on the first flight. Once I set the down thrust right she was a totaly different plane.
Oh and no matter what I tried she always liked to pull a bit to the right on the uplines. no amount of reduced right thrust would fix it. I just got use to it and corrected with the rudder in flight.
The pumped saito 100 was a perfect match on 30% with a 15-6 MA. I had my imac buddy put her though his routine, rolling circles, rolling loops, knife edge, slow rolls, 2, 4, 8 & 16 point rolls, walls etc... She does it all. Hover was ugly though but more than enough power. Good pull out at that weight but not space shuttle blast out. She is a nice plane but I would prefer more of a mid wing with no dihedral. More like a 260.