Hi all,
I test flew my mates turby a few weeks ago (no pics yet),it took off so quick (120 se)and was very stable once we put a fair amount of aeileron and down elevator trims in,well it felt like lots of trim but it was only about 4 clicks[sm=spinnyeyes.gif].
The flight was simple and kept down to four minutes (3litres of fuel).
I had briefly tried the flaps, but as the plane rolled abit i thought better to use very little flap and an approach that downwind appeared to be quite slow, surely by the time it was ready to touch down, the speed would be about right,so down wind turn into final,coming towards me,slowly dropping to head height and then i realised just how quick it was still travellins so,with the end of the runway fast approacing and at waist height i finally hit the throttle wide open-THANK the lord for the fast spool up and just as it was getting trouser shakinly close to the ground,the engine punched it out of trouble,i went round again and still only used a small amount of flap but slowed it down earlier,it still arrived at good speed but luckily,not too much.
I got it down ok but had a small problem(which every one agreed was not my fault) and parted one retract complete with bearers from the wing,it has since been fixed as well as strengthend and just waiting for some good weather when i am not working-so just in case any one has any good weather spare,maybe you could send it my way till the end of the week please
Having read with interest about a littlew crow brake with 50 degrees flap-how much up aeileron and is there any pitch tendancy both with or without crow please?
cheers Mark