Will a Global Freestyle hover on the prop with a .46FX? What prop should I use to get best performance out of the freestyle? How does it knife edge? Thanks!

Hey, where did everybody go?

I can't help you much on your questions about the engine or prop. I fly my freestyle with a Magnum .75 on it. It has plenty of power to hover and lots left over to pull it out of the hover. I wold imagine a .46FX will hover it but you won't have a lot left over to accerlerate out of it. As for the prop, I have no clue for a .46. Mine also balanced out fine with the servos in the stock location and the .75 out front. You may be slightly tail heavy with just a .46. Add a little weight to balance it where the plans say and then as you get comfortable with it start removing the weight and have fun.

It will knife edge great as long as you have enough servo on the rudder. I can get mine to knife edge at a high speed across the field and low angle of attack on the knife edge, or I can do a lsow knife edge at a high angle of attack where it is kind of a hover sliding sideways.

I really enjoy mine. Good luck with yours.

The freestyle will have trouble hovering on a .46 The plane should balance fine and fly great but the .46 will be at its limit hovering. If you stick the the stock gear which is weak but very light and save weight any way you can the .46 is a possibility for hovering. Try 12x4 or 12.25x3.75 or 11.5x4

I used a .61FX with macs muffler (21.5 oz total) and moved the battery to the tail. The .46 should balance fine. The CG the instructions give is very conservative.

I had a mid-air with mine and another one is on order. Very nice flying plane.

Thanks for the replies. I might try a .50SX or move up to a .61. I have an MDS .68 on a US 60. That may even be better. Don't know how much trouble I'll have mounting it though. Thanks again.

I didn't have much trouble mounting my engine. I used the mount they sent with it, but turned it so that the engine was on its side at a 90 degree angle so that the head stick out the side of the cowl. I used a pitts style muffler with mine. I didn't like the way the stock mounting made you use a wood screw on the one corner and blind nuts and bolts on the other three.

Definitely replace the gear if you go with a bigger engine. The stock ones are very flimsy and won't give you the ground clearence you will need with a bigger prop. My gear didn't even survive the first takeoff.

The size of this plane reminds me of my trainer (Sig Kadet LT-40/w tt .46), bigger than the avg. 40 size. So I think that a .46 may fly it, but will limit its performance (probably perfect for pattern flying though).

I read an article where the guy said that his o.s. .50 sx had similar performance with his ys .63. The 63 is ideal for this plane (read that is what I'm flying with), so I bet a 50 would be also. Without the extra power I would definitely be in trouble(case in point, last weekend I was starting knife edge loops in a vertical downline....and hearing all the ruckus behind me; you know, yelling "look out", "pull out", "uh-oh", people grabbing for trash bags, etc.). Man what fun.......

One thing that suprised me last weekend, somehow I got this plane to perform one of the hardest, ugliest snap rolls that I have ever seen. Of course everyone thought I did it on purpose (who am I to say otherwise), but I will make sure it never happens again.

Lots of good tips in the review on the main rcu page (especially which landing gear to get).