[popeyepete]

HK Decathlon 48.9 inch
Well, much more of a flyers plane this one, no 'bank and yank' here. My set-up wasn't spot-on so that translated to a difficult flight. First with the traditional cartwheel on the take-off, over corrected with the rudder..... Second take-off was ok, but very twitchy on the controls and all my trim was out, took me the whole 5 mins to get it flying kinda straight, and i was still all over the place. With Kieran coaching i was able to get it back to terrafirma in one piece.
My problems were..
1. One side of the elevators was out of level by about 3mm. Caused issues with a wicked roll when i pulled back on the stick.
2. Little tail heavy, this compounded the other issues.
3. The ESC was set-up for a heli, soft start. Yep and i still took her up.
4. Didn't set-up expo as i though with such slim ailerons, shouldn't need it. Wrong!

Aside from all this, i knew this plane would be challenging to fly and that's why i got it, and will try and try again.
Thanks Kieran for the coaching and tips today.

Took it up again with all the above things sorted, and it flew very nicely, until......the motor twisted the cheap ply stock frame, called dead stick and landed with no drama's
   

Kieran warned me with this cheap motor mount!!