18-07-2012, 10:12 PM
It certainly is a sweet machine, I think it flies better than my Edge 540.
I'm sure it won't take you many flights to get confident with landing it.
It's Just a matter of getting the approach right. If it doesn't look good then always go around, relax and have another go. It's very hard to do a good landing after a bad approach.
Landing is all in placing the plane on the right approach if you nail the approach, then the landing will follow easy enough. Two things with our field are, the strip is quite short and there is no straight approach in either direction. But once you get used to it it's no problem even in a cross wind.
I think you've done a lovely job of putting it together and setting it up and it shows in the way it flys. It certainly does sound better with that motor, the other one seemed to have a fair bit of bearing noise.
You might want to increase the rudder travel a little, it will make it easier to taxi. You could add a bit of expo to make it softer around the center if you like, but it's a matter of taste.
Nice one!!
I'm sure it won't take you many flights to get confident with landing it.
It's Just a matter of getting the approach right. If it doesn't look good then always go around, relax and have another go. It's very hard to do a good landing after a bad approach.
Landing is all in placing the plane on the right approach if you nail the approach, then the landing will follow easy enough. Two things with our field are, the strip is quite short and there is no straight approach in either direction. But once you get used to it it's no problem even in a cross wind.
I think you've done a lovely job of putting it together and setting it up and it shows in the way it flys. It certainly does sound better with that motor, the other one seemed to have a fair bit of bearing noise.
You might want to increase the rudder travel a little, it will make it easier to taxi. You could add a bit of expo to make it softer around the center if you like, but it's a matter of taste.
Nice one!!
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