maiden cap flight
 

some of you guys helped me a lot here with my first Nitro... flew it today and it was superb!... she is fast like you told me and also landed it with speed to avoid nose diving and snapping... was really awesome to fly her... just wanted to thank you guys with all help... you know who you are...

RE: maiden cap flight
 

Great, and congrats!!!

Next thing you might want to do is see just how slow you can get it to land safely.

Go up, what we call in the business.. ;) three mistakes high, and point it into the wind. Then slowly drop the throttle and carefully watch what it does, trying, at the sametime, to monitor your throttle setting. When it dips to one side or the other, you've reached the stall point (for that wind speed). If it's calm, all the better because you can truly see what happens with no wind and can then judge your throttle setting for landing accordingly.

Good luck with it. Just keep the pointy side facing forward and the wheels on the bottom and you should be ok.. [X(] :D

RE: maiden cap flight
 

yeah man, gonna do that next time... was just so scared to stall it and just really wanted to land it... so I landed it rather that the plane landing itself if it makes sense... sweet for all the help dude...

RE: maiden cap flight
 

another thing... when do I know if the motor is too rich? at moment its about 6.5 turns out and its still hitting over 10 000 RPMs, which is a concern as SAITO says it must be 9500 at WOT but I kept on richening and couldn't achieve this... I have now set it at 3/4 full throttle, 9500 RPM... and the fuel is leaking from exhaust still... response is great from idle to WOT and from 1/2 to WOT... is there maybe another method of tuning apart from checking RPMs?... I am using an Evolution 13x6 prop...