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Old 05-20-2010, 07:09 PM
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Default RE: Any tips to make sure i get this landing right?

could you do it? yes you could, you could physically land in the area you described and it wouldnt be that big of a deal. that being said i would put on a good 30+ hours with that plane before you were to even attempt such a thing and heres why. if something is going to go wrong on your plane chances are it will happen in the first 10 hours, im talking about stuff like control horns failing, hindges giving out, battery connections or the battery itself going bad, and stuff like that. after you get all the little things tweaked out, get the engine running where you could bet your house that it would last the whole flight and feel confident about it.
then get to know your plane and i mean really know it, stall speed, its bad tendencies, what to do when xxxxx happens. think about all the things that would go wrong on the lake and practice for them at the field. like what if your elevator servo failed, throttle servo, ect. understand the plane well enough where you could ditch it in the lake and not into someones house.
think about all the things you have to avoid, look around for powerlines, tall trees, even small stuff like junk in the lake, ect.

once you have totally thought through this and every possible thing that could go wrong and prepared for it then you could try it. that being said you better know your stuff or it can and will get ugly very fast. i am not recommending this by any means im just saying if you try it at least think through it and dont do something totally stupid that will get you and modelers in general a bad rap.
cause oneday when your tired of work and just dont have that time to go to the field your going to try it, just use your brain a little beforehand