18-07-2014, 12:07 PM
The rules actually give an APC part number for the prop, It's suposed to be that particular one
but If all you had was HK you'd still be allowed to race it. It wouls be interesting to see how close a copy The HK prop is to the original APC.
I remember someone takling about buying some for practice but I don't remember seeing any in the flesh. I have a spare APC 8X8 if you need one for Pitt Town on the 2nd 3rd of Aug. Your more than welcome to have it and replace it later if your's don't arrive on time.
It should be a good turn out for EF1, I'm looking forward to it. EF1 is very cool to watch 'cause it's so closely matched. Pogo, Shoestring, Invictus, Proud Bird there's nothing between them, It's really quite a nice formular. They are easy planes to fly too, once they are set up propperly they just groove around the course. Wing Tipper and I had a ball last time we got our out for a bit of practice down at McCoy field. It was a Wednesday and we had the field to our selves so we set up the course and had about 6 flights each around the pylons. No problems landing them there either now that the willows are gone.........AWSOME !!......There should be more of it
The trick is setting up the controll surfaces sencibly. You need dual rates, I set my radio up so I can select which ever set of rates I want for rudder aileron and elevator all with the one switch. I set the rudder rates very low in low rates with a decent amount of expo so I don't accidently use rudder when I turn. I also set the elevator so when on low rates so I can give it full elevator at max speed and it doesn't snap or drop a wing or do anything silly. You might find it usefull to weight the outer wing slightly.
but If all you had was HK you'd still be allowed to race it. It wouls be interesting to see how close a copy The HK prop is to the original APC.
I remember someone takling about buying some for practice but I don't remember seeing any in the flesh. I have a spare APC 8X8 if you need one for Pitt Town on the 2nd 3rd of Aug. Your more than welcome to have it and replace it later if your's don't arrive on time.
It should be a good turn out for EF1, I'm looking forward to it. EF1 is very cool to watch 'cause it's so closely matched. Pogo, Shoestring, Invictus, Proud Bird there's nothing between them, It's really quite a nice formular. They are easy planes to fly too, once they are set up propperly they just groove around the course. Wing Tipper and I had a ball last time we got our out for a bit of practice down at McCoy field. It was a Wednesday and we had the field to our selves so we set up the course and had about 6 flights each around the pylons. No problems landing them there either now that the willows are gone.........AWSOME !!......There should be more of it
The trick is setting up the controll surfaces sencibly. You need dual rates, I set my radio up so I can select which ever set of rates I want for rudder aileron and elevator all with the one switch. I set the rudder rates very low in low rates with a decent amount of expo so I don't accidently use rudder when I turn. I also set the elevator so when on low rates so I can give it full elevator at max speed and it doesn't snap or drop a wing or do anything silly. You might find it usefull to weight the outer wing slightly.
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