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Old 03-07-2010 | 10:29 AM
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Default RE: How do I balance this thing?

She flew yesterday!
3/4 throttle, on 2nd thought, I bumped it up to full throttle... Gave it a good toss and she flew out straight and level !! Climbed straight out, nice and easy to the far side of the field.
Rolled into a left turn and as it was coming back to me it was slowly diving. It took full elevator to tevel it off. I switched to high rates on elevator and it seemed pretty good then...
I didnt adjust any trims, alierons were good but it seemed to want to dive if I wasnt careful.
I flew 5-6 times around the field then brought it in. cut the engine and it glided in pretty well. Finally did not break the prop on landing! Next time I think if I have more speed I can give it a little flare at the end to keep the nose up at touchdown.???

Gonna head out to the club field in a couple hours to get some test flights in. Hard to tell anything from that first flight..

Nice to see it fly!!

thanks

Steve