RE: what to get?
I promised a flight report and here it is.
~10mph wind along the runway and ~34*F
The engine started up amazingly good for the temp. and after a little tweaking it was ready to go!
The Saito .82 4s and 15X4W APC had gobs of power and in about 10ft. it was off the ground and heading straight up with lots of power.
when I got to altitude I trimmed it out (which only took 2or3 clicks of aileron). KE is great, absolutely no roll coupling and it only took a hare of up elevator to keep it straight. And it had plenty of rudder for climbing KE. For me, the recommended low rate elevator was not quite enough so I increased it slightly and it was perfect. I wasn't able to hover it because of the gusty wind. With a head wind it landed at walking speed. I tried a flat spin but couldn't get it to flatten out but that is prob. because I'm not very good at flat spins anyway. It does rolls and snap rolls great, I don't know how it does loops, I tried some but the wind messed with it alot when I did loops. It glides as good as my ltra stick. I gave it one washer width of down thrust and it flew great inverted. To sum up the way it flies, WOW!!!
BTW, I have the CG at 4 3/4" and the fuel tank at the cg. I am using a hanger-9 4.8V 1400mah nicd reciever pack, and byron 20/20 fuel.
here are some pics the in flight pic was the climb out after my second take off.