Jonathan

A big thank you to George from 4 Max He has advised and supplied me the electric set up for my next build the Quaker Flash.

Wow fantastic work there, congratulations.

Quaker Flash Plans up on the wall of the modelling room, study study for the next couple of months. My winter build for flying spring next year, started the shopping list ready for Western Park this year. I built one 40 years ago forgot how blummin big it is hahah 😅

Congratulations very neat looking build you have done

I would say my flying is slow in nature, around 40% throttle, yes your right soon as a little bit more power up it went . I enjoy slow low passed so I can see the airframe.

Just got back from another successful 2nd flight, a bit more wind than last night but coped fine. Less nervous and managed 6 minutes with 54% left. Also noticed the difference, last evening I had to put down trim on , This evening I used a different battery which happens to be a bit heavier than the other one, less trim . On the plan it shows CoG slightly in front of the main spar, level with the first battery slight nose heavy with 2nd , nicer level flight.

George has a great wealth of knowledge re electric, he has kindly advised and supplied me the set ups I need for electric flight.

Hello Tom it was from the plan. Most enjoyable,

It certainly was heaven, had been working hard all morning a bit of work stress, so to end the day enjoying the flight even though I was nervous haha forgot all about the days work

Well just got back from my junior 60 maiden flight. Fantastic success, I was quite nervous after ni on 4 months build. Perfect late afternoon flying conditions. Success everything I wanted from it even was escorted by a red kite who joined me 2 minutes into the flight, no attack just gently flying under and around my plane. Only had a 4 minute flight, gently landed about 20ft away, avoiding sheep haha. Was surprised 71% battery left. 4 minutes was enough for the maiden.

That's great thank you, I will try setting it at 3.5 and compare

Evening all, I have fitted a voltage alarm in my plane , today used with a 99% charged 3s 11.1v 2200mAh overlander lipo pack. Plugged into the alarm it read All 12.5 . I set the alarm at 3.7 , had around a 6 minutes pottering around flight most enjoyable, Then the alarm sounded so landed, I had with me my battery checker, the alarm was showing All 11.9 1- 3.95 2- 3.98 3- 4.02 On the checker it showed 78% As said I had set the alarm at 3.7 Is this ok or am I doing something wrong. Kind regards Jonathan

Hi Adam, great to see you getting into the hobby, l've just returned after a 25 year break, straight back into building old free flight designed models converting them to electric making gentle trainer. Before my break I had many many years of flying experience, however it's taking time for my confidence to build up again, Unfortunately there aren't any local flying clubs near me so I'm flying on my own at a local common, whilst I was flying on Monday afternoon a chap turned up with a Hobbyzone Apprentice S2 1200mm wingspan, he said he'd never flown before, he'd seen me flying a couple of times. He asked me to help him fly it which I gladly did, what a lovely stable trainer it is , I really enjoyed it. We meet again this afternoon and got him in the air and enjoying round and round plodding flight, I did the landings haha. It is a RTF , have a look on YT. Keep on enjoying the build well worth it.

I purchased one last summer, haven't started the build yet. Does look a lovely plane.

Yep it does look a nice plane, I've only got the wheels haha and they are nice