ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
That's a big NO on the flaperons, if it tip stalls on you now it's telling you something and theFlaperons will make your problem worse when you try to land. By being at slow speed and gassing it too fast will cause the plane to want to roll left, happens all the time. You roll on the throttle to avoid this. Any of the warbirds I have flown require a bit more air speed when landing and you fly them in close to the ground then cut power and they will settle down and land all by themselves. Do a search with the key word Flaperon and see what everyone has to say about them. It's been a topic all the last week or two and it comes up about every month. They have there place but it isn't on a warbird.
Good that you were able to maiden your own plane. I used my advanced instructor for a long tim until he had a stroke. Then I figured I was as good on the sticks as any of the other pilots so I may as well do my own. It's worked out pretty well for me over the years.
Thanks for the advice, I am not sure I like the idea of flaperons either, I think it will make the controls a bit more sloppy at the slow speeds, best advice may be to use the power the plane has and fly a bit faster, I will have to make some adjustments on my approach as our field is not all that long and has bush and trees at both ends, trying to land short is always a challenge.
It was great to do my first maiden, I figured I built it, it looks ok, every plane I have ever built flies great and I am a decent pilot, so just go for it. The fact that I got into real trouble twice and made really good recoveries tells me I am ok to test planes out.