This is my first post here. Hello.

What's the best stuff to clean a plane at the end of the day. I've always used windex. Some guys make their own.

Just curious.

Andy

You're probably going to get as many answers as people who answer. I brew my own. Pretty easy to do. Gallon of windshield washer fliud with a good size squirt of Dawn dishwashing liquid. The dawn cuts the oil really well, and the windshield washer fluid cleans with out leaving streaks. And it's cheap. Windshield washer fluid is usually less than a buck.

Hope this helps.

I got a spray bottle of Simple Green along with a gallon size refill at my local warehouse club (BJ's). Works great and smells kind of nice on the drive home. It also included a tube of waterless hand cleaner that helps deslime my hands before I get in the car.

Try any cheap brand of baby wipes. I started using them a couple of years ago and never went back to Windex.

I used simple gren myself , and the search up top

I would also recommend a deflector on your mufler it helps with keeping the plane clean and it does a good job. Thats whate I use but You will still have to clean the plane no matter what.

I tried that myself, but like you said, no matter what it goes all over your place, deflector doesn’t help to much when you doing flip and such.

yea, if flying a long time there no use in a deflector. The delefectors help a little, but after a while your plane is drenched.... I just have gogten sued to cleaning

hey New, I finally found a trainer thats so freakin kewl man and guess what HE DOESENT CHARGE!! hahaha

I do give him gifts like monokote , fuel and things like that. he's saving the monokote to teach me how to use the monokote on a plane.. how kewl is that. So what part of training are you at? I know we kinda started at the same time. What are you able to do now?

forgot to add, sorry about the crash but I know your up and running again.

Did you get lost and post this in the wrong spot casue im just a little lost now .

I soloed. I plan to still fly with my instructor most of the time cause he is one of my only flying buddies. But I soloed and can fly by myself when i want to.
It's good you found an instructor. Mine was awsome. He lent me things when i didnt have them. He helped AMAZINGLY. Too bad you don't live here or i am sure he would instruct you.

The crash was a leanring experience. I am actually glad it happened because i needed to know some things out of it. (and it gave me a reason to go the the LHS and buy new landing gear) I learned alot and will go back up in the air on sunday. I might go one session on buddy, but am not sure yet.

oh man thats kewl congrats on that. Maybe one day we'll fly together during the summer this sig kadet plane is so amazing man, its a glider I always gotta bring the plane facing down when comming for landing cause it just wants to fly.

Has anyone tried a silicone tube that connects to the exhaust and extends through the fuselage and exits at the aft? I know this may affect performance a little, maybe a lot, but just wanted to ask. This would keep the fuel almost completely off of the plane.

I decided long ago that for me, the hassle of such devices is not worth the minute or two it takes to clean a plane. Others may have different opinions. I've seen such things, occasionally, but I think most just accept that they will have to do a small amount of cleaning at the end of the day.

Switch to gas engines and your cleaning days will be over!!

Just kidding, but not really. I use windex, fast orange or simple green. They all work pretty well.

rwright142,
For me cleaning the plane is not just a process to get the plane cleaned off. I use the time that I'm cleaning for also inspecting the plane after flying it. This should be part of EVERY pilots routines. You should be checking that the airframe is still sound, clevises are tight, servo arms secured and the holes not rounded out, throws on control surfaces, holes and damage in the covering, bolts and nuts tight especially for the motor, and anything else I might not have mentioned. I've seen a lot of pilots just wipe the oil off and put the plane back in their car, and then on the next flying day they pull it out of the vehicle without doing any maintenance other than recharging the batteries. Poor maintenance causes a lot of crashes just because problems aren't spotted before than can bring down the plane.

Hope this helps.