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Old 09-20-2009 | 07:44 PM
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Default RE: .049 sailplane set up

One of the best planes I've ever had for relaxed flying was a Gentle Lady with an RC PAW .049 Classic. Once at altitude I could just throttle the little diesel back and putter around in the blue. The power pod was just scaled up from some tractor .020 pod on something I had a magazine size plan page for, maybe a Guppy. With a 1 oz CL wedge tank in the pod the PAW ran longer than my neck liked looking way up and certainly longer than my attention span. I spent a lot of time playing with the the flap reflex set up coming in hot and fast at idle and "cruise" 10ยบ up flaps and bouncing back to altitude with a brief application of full down flaps and adding lots of throttle while zeroing the flaps for climb out.


ORIGINAL: gene6029

Thanks for that info, im going to get one Monday. Im looking foreward to building the Gentle Lady with him & i wanted to put one of my many .049s to use. Cant wait to get started!!![8D]......Gene