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Old 04-02-2002 | 09:02 PM
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Default Nice report

Hi Fly4Fun2,

Great report. I really appreciate your obvious experienced perspective between the Extra's 3D and precison abilities.

I too find the elevator's extremely sensitive, even on low rates. At first I thought it was CG related, but it is not, though of course it does become even more sensitive as the CG is moved back, but it is even sensitive with a fairly conservative CG. I have no problem with it, I just increasedt he exponential on low rates, but until you get used to it I definitely tended to overcontrol the pitch.

I too added a little right thrust to straighten the uplines. This seems to be a common adjustment necessary on this plane.

Slow landings:

How much does your's weigh? Mine doesn't land as slow as my 40% Carden Cap did either(or doesn't appear to), but I think that is to be expected...and also the relative visual speed between this plane and the 42% Giles might account for the Giles seeming to be a lot slower too.