Second flying day

Finally some sun and I could put in some more flights, 9 in total now.

Continued to work on the mixing for knife edge and up and down lines. This plane needs much less mixing than the Altair. Almost nothing for knife edge and a little for downline.

I tried to change the incidence of the wing to solve the down lines but that did not work, so I will add a mixer throttle to elevator.

I also tried a bit more forward CG by moving the batteries as forward as possible and that made the plane more stable, as with the glow version.

For the rest not so much changes as I wanted to get used to it first.


Rolling is fantastic with this plane ! Straight as an arrow and sooooo slow. Since I switched to flying with a transmitter tray the rolling (2x slow roll in P11 or 3x in P09) was always my weak point but not anymore ;-)


One improvement to make: rudder horn length. Those are too long and do not allow for enough throw. Could not dial in enough rudder compared to the glow version but then I realized that that one has shorter horns.

Also have some repair work to do as I dropped one battery in the plane on the mounting tray. Nothing related with design or manufacturing, just my clumsiness. I am not used to batteries any bigger then receiver batteries ;-)

Actually the biggest thing at this moment is getting used to the e-power system. Throttle response is different but also braking feels different. Any tips here ? Anyone who want to share settings for a Hacker C50-14 and Jeti Opto ? At the moment I have braking at “hard” and 3 degrees of timing.


Regards

Roald