15-07-2012, 03:50 PM
Well after we sorted Waynes Eratix. I decieded to take to Super Tucano out for a few taxi trails as I was still a little concerned that it might be a little underpowered (for my liking).
To my surprise the 5.7 kg flight weight was no issue with the aircraft lifting the nose at 50% throttle with no elevator input. I did 4 take off throttle ups and backed off each time the nose lifted. I set 50% flaps and on the 5th run the aircraft had other ideas and decieded to take off so I pushed the throttle up to 80% and it floated effortlessly into the blue stuff.
The wind was starting to pick up and as this was an unplanned flight I left the flaps at 50% and the gear down.
No trim adjustments at this time with the gear and flaps deployed so I did a couple of circuits just to check the balance.
It felt very neutral and probably needed a few clicks of down elevator but that was probably the flaps.
I flew a few approaches to check approach speed and set the flaps to 100%
To my surprise the fat bastard was not interested in decending until i reduced the throttle to less than 40%, even had to kill the throttle completely on the final approach at the threashold.
It finally settled back onto terra firma with a lot less pace than I thought it would.
I will leave the current power system in and do a couple more flights before I make any changes.
Surprisingly nimble and stable at all flight speeds for such a heavy aircraft
SWEET...................
To my surprise the 5.7 kg flight weight was no issue with the aircraft lifting the nose at 50% throttle with no elevator input. I did 4 take off throttle ups and backed off each time the nose lifted. I set 50% flaps and on the 5th run the aircraft had other ideas and decieded to take off so I pushed the throttle up to 80% and it floated effortlessly into the blue stuff.
The wind was starting to pick up and as this was an unplanned flight I left the flaps at 50% and the gear down.
No trim adjustments at this time with the gear and flaps deployed so I did a couple of circuits just to check the balance.
It felt very neutral and probably needed a few clicks of down elevator but that was probably the flaps.
I flew a few approaches to check approach speed and set the flaps to 100%
To my surprise the fat bastard was not interested in decending until i reduced the throttle to less than 40%, even had to kill the throttle completely on the final approach at the threashold.
It finally settled back onto terra firma with a lot less pace than I thought it would.
I will leave the current power system in and do a couple more flights before I make any changes.
Surprisingly nimble and stable at all flight speeds for such a heavy aircraft
SWEET...................
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