Don Fry

A la Normande, is nice. If an old bird, cook until soft. Easy, does two for dinner. Don’t suppose they eat field fare any more. That’s the pheasant, not you chickens.

In fairness GG, what bits get frozen is individual choice nowadays.

I’m in a pugnacious mood. Allegations of vibrations in an airframe made of wood, a natural vibration damper, causing problems with cheap servos. I would suggest, address addiction to cheap servos. At what price point is it possible to make a servo, and feed the producer, and his workers.

Super cub is a very fine choice. Nice flier. Will get you sorted.

Totally agree, turn the rubbish off. But low battery warnings good. Somethings wrong if it even dips into this area. I ballast this sort of model, same reason you ballast a soarer in the wind, helps it to penetrate the wind. Also note, lose the weight first, nice in calm, get wind, attach weight on CG. That’s logic.

I will say, switch. A good switch costs money, if it’s cheap, it’s rubbish, if it’s expensive, (it might still be rubbish) but if it’s a throw switch, or the maker says it fails open, try it. But never cheap. Or you have forum mates, trusted reviews. Lots of switch posts out there

Doc, fair enough, I’m not too interested in tech, and nowadays even less with telemetry warnings from the plane shouting at me in a desirable accent, but, first line of my post, a J60, ( trundle flight mostly but rudder only rolls and loops also), use about 50 mah of battery per 20 minutes of flight. I also think NiMh batteries are poor things, but that still allows 2 hours of flight, to take about half the power from a 600mah battery. Note for pedants, measurements of power use relate to the numbers given by the charger, to return the cell to full power. I ignore power losses in the charger, batteries, and the principles of thermodynamics. I also dislike adding weight for no reason. Just because it will carry a big wight on the CG , to help in blustery weather, does not mean it flies better like that. Dream, warm summers evening, no wind, scantily clad young ladies serving beer, rolling yer fags, as you carefully waft it along. My view, 2025, all power bits, weather glow, or electric, inc fuel tank, batteries, go in front of the windscreen. Then a 600 mah life battery to power it all, and a pair of HV 15, 20 g servos, behind the wind screen bulkhead, controls to the tail, 10 kg fishing trace. It is tight to fit, it will go it, and with care on a light back end, try balsa depron laminate on the elevator fin, I bet it would not need a gram of weight to put in the nose. I admit, I like light airframes.

From memory, a junior 60 uses about 50 mah of battery per 20 minute flight. It’s a long time ago, used a 500 mah pack. Flew all day.

I’ve lost the thread.

Is that a beer per end mill, an ice cream, or actual money. As a kid, sub 10 year old, dad had me cleaning up bits on his Cincinnati mill for hill climber engines. I settled for contributions for my radio acquisition fund. Just looking after young employees.

Might you have a quiet sit down, and reevaluate who your mates are. Or your core values. And your need to belong to a society that functions.

My missus nags that I ignore her moaning at me. I (again) explain, patiently, I need to have my attention on her, much like my elderly deaf whippet. Then we have been known to argue. “I’m impossible” she possits, my retorts that bullying 20 doctors into line when working is all very well for practice, but I’m an old socialist copper, and not for moving. Then we start to discuss things in a heated manner. Hearing aids exist, but I find glasses a major source of wasted time looking for them, so something else to lose, with batteries to boot, fills me with horror

We will agree to disagree. An aircraft wot needs down elevator to fly staight and level at full clic will dive if that power is taken off. To avoid it, the operator applies up until the excess speed bleeds off, or gets the thrust lines sorted. Thats physics, not fashion.

Thin nylon covered fishing stuff, mine is 15 kilo. Other weights exist, but a mate gave me a reel half a lifetime ago, and it’s still going.

So what happens, build up speed with power, mixes cut in, cut throttle, does it not dive left. Not saying a bit of mix can’t fine tune, but the airframe thrust angles need to be about right first. Not saying it’s easy, but it has to be done.