Darrell King Mr

I bought the sapac Jas Sabb -39 and am just not starting  to put the mosnter together. Much bigger than I expected it to be and came with no instruction manual. I guess I will be going by the seat of my pants on this one unless anyone has any suggestions??  

Way to go there dude

Well now you are one very lucky person to have won this bueat! Have fun with it . I know I would have . Congrats!!!!

Now this is one I really hope to win . Count me in

here we go lets win

Thanks a lot so far guys I will take all the advise that I can get and use it .

Hey everyone. Hope all your flights are happy ones. Why is it that some of the planes in my hangar want to roll to the right or left at takeoff and then flip over and crash????  Is it to much power on the take off or not enough??? I don't consider myself anything but a beginner as I have less than a year in this hobby but I can do very well in my flight sim on all aircraft and it does become boring after a while. I do have some planes that just take off as smooth as you please and others that just refuse to go up and those that refuse just simple roll to the left or right and flip over and crash. Also I have a slow flyer that just shoots striaght up , stalls and crashes. How do I fix this ??  

aLL , WELL MOST ANYWAY OF MY BATTERIES ARE FROM OVERSEA'S AND HAVE ALL FUNCTIONED PERFECTLY. i DO HAVBE THREE THAT HAVE LOST CELLS AND THEY WERE ALL MADE RIGHT HERE IN THE GOOD OLD USA

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Ah yes the PZ P-51D. What a nice flying experience for any newbee, myself included. You know when a person decides to get inot a hobby I don't think they think of all the aspect that are involved in the hobby. They just see a person flying a plane around a park and say "WOW thats cool I want to do that".  Next thing you know you got a plane that you have no idea how to fly.  That has been my experience.  In the beginning I went out and bought these cheap 4 channel fomies and never got a one off the ground. I sure learned how to use tape and glue tho. I got my PZ P-51 and crashed it first time out . Rebuilt it and promptly crashed it again. I fixed it so many times the front of the plane was almost flexable. Thats when I finally got the hang of the plane and how to fly the thing.  Yes they are some touchey planes at lower speeds and present a challange but hey thats what it's all about right. If you want smooth flight try the PZ FW 190 very nice and if you want an even more touchy plane try the spitfire. boy is that a handful.

Well guys  I live in a small midwest town in the USA. Missouri to be specific and Carl Junction is the name of the town. There are only 3500 people in the town so you can get a pretty good picture of what I am dealing with here.  I came out here 18 years ago and just never left. It's very nice. I have a nice big park 1/2 block from me that holds five baseball fields and three soccer fields and there is a large creek running next to the park. I would say its about 40 acres of land that is pretty much open and that is where I fly. There is a paved road that works just great as a runway and there is really very little traffic on the road except after school lets out and all the teams come down to play. The guy who sold me the plane is from Calif and he is a pretty cool guy and is going to wire me up an electric package that will fly the plane. I will keep you all posted on whats going on and let you all know when I am successful. As most of you know I have only beeen flying and modeling since May 08 and since that time I have managed to aquire almost 20 models . Most of them are park flyers. The Zero is the only scale plane I have. I really like the warbirds and all but two of my planes are warbirds. I do have quite an impressive hangar. At least I think so. I have not flown all of my planes yet just the foam ones as they are the least expensive. I am just a little to scared to fly the wood planes because they are so pretty and took a lot of work and I just don't think I am a good enough pilot yet.  I am pretty much teaching myself how to do this but with the help of all of you guys it gets easier. I am training on a HobbyZone SuperCub and have gotten pretty good at all the aspects of flying it. Landings are improving daily and I am having a lot of fun with it . I also have a Diablo jet and a F-18 Hornet ducted fans for my jet training however the Hornet has taken a beating and the Diablo has faulty motors that overheat and quit on me. I just think they put cheap motors on that jet.  I have built up a pretty good workshop but still lack a lot of the tech knowledge that goes along with this sport. Sizing motors and ESC's as well as batteries are not a strong suite for me and I will usally go with what the recomendations are on the model kit that I buy. It usally turns out pretty good.  Anyway thaks everyone and I will keep everyone updated  

Ok Scott what do you suggest???

Frank Thanks a bunch. I sure do appre the help . I never thouht of looking on the net for the infor but then again I guess I don't know HOW to come up with the info. I suppose that I could just look up the motor and then check the requirements. Thanks for giving me not only a learning lesson but a way to solve my own problems. Best rc help place in the world is right here . Thanks guys . I will let everyone know what happens when I get he right right battery in the plane.

Scott I have an E-max BL2826/60 (  whatever that means ) Hey I am a new guy, so give me a break. Anyway it has 11.1 V  - 14.1 V  which I take to mean the voltage requirements. Also it has a prop 12"-13" on it which I assume is the prop siz Hope I am right so far. Thats all the info I can give you on the motor.  Almost every one now seems to agree it is the voltage requirements and that I need to increase that so I am going to wire tw 2400 kvm 11.1 15c batteries together and see if that works. I don't have an amp or watt meter or whatever it is that measures the whatever that you need as I said I have been doing this since May of 08 so five months is really not enought time to aquire all the tools or knowledge that this hobby requires.  Like any newbie I just build it and hope it will fly.  Prob not the best way in the world to do things but I am learning, I did get some other tools and I am building up a little workshop. I am sure I will learn as I go.  I really want to thank all the people here as they are really nice and very helpful  

OH  my  I actually did mean turn on the Transmitter(Tx) first and then the rx (reciever) must be asleep or something like "old timers". Thanks for the advise. I have been talking toa lot of folks about the problem and most have come up with the soultion of wiring two 2400kvm 15 c 11.1 li-pol batteries together in order to get the power that I need as it seems to boil down to a power problem.  Now all I need to do is try that fix and see if it works.  BTW is that your zero in the pic???? Have you flown it??? You must tell me all about it. Thanks again

Have I read "ALL" the threads in elect flight??? Your kidding right!!! As I said I am pretty new at this and don't know a tenth of what I need to know. All I know is this. The motor runs fine withthe prop off. When the prop is on the motor chocks up at about 1/2 throddle. I have been told it is the battery is to small.  The motor is to big, and so on. The ESC is not overheating and the battery is not going puff the magic lipo on me and the motor is still cool after about five mins of runninf with no prop. So here I am thinking it is the prop.  But the guy at the hobby store tells me that the prop I was going to buy ( a wood 13" prop" ) would not work. He then goes on to explain that he thinks it is the motor is asking for more amps than the battery is giving out. so I need a bigger  ($200) battery.  No thanks. Can't I wire these two batterys I have in sequence some how to get the volts I need if that is the problem??   But then again what is the real problem>> Thanks for the help but I still don't know how to get the thing into the sky 

Boy does this sound like my problem. I have an E-max BL2826/60 (  whatever that means ) Hey I am a new guy, so give me a break. Anyway it has 11.1 V  - 14.1 V  which I take to mean the voltage requirements. Also it has a prop 12"-13" on it which I assume is the prop siz Hope I am right so far. Ok, Now,  This motor  is hooked up to an 80 amp ESC and a 11.1 V 2400 3s  15c battery. Here is what happens.  Turn on rx, turn on TX , get all the beeps like everything is hunky dory. all servos work, landing gear retracks just fine and all else seems to be in optium working order.  Start to throddle up and the motor goes backwards.  Woops. So I change the wiring and the motor decides to go in the right direction. Once again start the procedure. Everything is fine. Start to throddle up and the motor goes backwards again. Scratch head, mutter obsenities under my breath and question my memory.  Hummmm di I actually switch the wires I wonder and try to throddle up again and again it goes backwards. I try it again and lo and behold it goes in the right direction. WOW this is great !!!! But why did it start like that....??? So I throddle it up... up ... up.... and at about 60% up throddle it starts to couch and sputter and make sick dying sounds. So I turn it off and try it again . same thing happens. Starts backwards but after two of three trys it goes forward and then cuts off again at about 60%.  OK now I am confused.  I had already changed the ESC from a 40 amp to an 80 amp and that did not fix the problem. Also changed the transmitter as it stopped working.  Ran the motor without the prop and it did just fine except for the start up which still tried to go backwards a few time before it would go forward.  Anyway without the prop on the motor will go to full throddle so I figure it is the prop.  I don't have a 12" or another 13" prop that is a lighter weight right now so I have to wait to test the prop theory.  However why is it starting up backwards  a few time before it will go forward in the correct direction??????  I know the prop may be a little heavey but it's not that heavey for the plane.  Any suggestions????????   

I started this hobby in December of 07 when my son bought me an air hoggs mini heli and I worked it until I was able to fly it around the living room. I then went on to a two channel heli and was disapointed with the performance so I went to a four channel and the fun started. I loved the four channel apache 94H and am still having fun learning to fly it like a pro. This was all this year in Jan and Feb. Then I started to buy planes. What could be so hard about flying a model plane I asked myself????? Ha!!!! was I in for a supprize. Ended up buying four cheap fomies four channel and could never get one of them off the ground. I did get a lot of practice repairing them however and also in the building department.  Finally in May I got a Hobbyzone Super Cub and finally got a plane off the ground and into the sky. I am on my fourth Cub now and this one is in pretty good condition compaired to the others. Needless to say learning to fly is a challenge. I live in a small town ( pop 3500) so findling an experienced instructor is dam near impossible  so I had to teach myself from trial and error and reading fourms like this one.  I am pretty good at the take off mostly on models with landing gear but also have three parkzone warbirds that are hand tossed that I have been able to get inot the air and fly. Landing is still a learning process yet I am getting better at it .  I now have close to 20 planes a few which have only seen a taxi and no air time as I am scared to death to crash them . So I keep working my skills on the cub and the other planes that I am able to fly like the e-flite P-38, and parkzones Spitfire, FW190, and the P-51D. I have a slowflyer S.A.E. 5 which just refuses to go up. a Diamond ducted fan jet  F-18 Hornet with no nose  because of the many crashes, a Diablo that Has been a good learning jet. Building the planes is just as much fun as the actual flying but flying has a lot more thrills. I am still learning and some day will have the guts to put up my other planes .  

I have this exact same plane . I am having a problem with the motor however. It is this giant E-flite motor , really big and an 80 amp ESC. and the largest battery I have a 2400 3s 15c battery. The motor often time starts backwars and then will go forward in the right direction but it will only throddle up to about 60%. Once over that threshold the motor starts to cough and sputter and then die. It will restart again just fine but once again at about 60% throddle it coughs and sputters and dies. What could be the problem???? What are you using to power your Zero ???? Also do you have a video of any flights??? How does it fly?? You see I have a lot of questions regarding this model. Please respond. Thanks

I am in this right ???

here we go again . One of these times I will win this thing . My birthday is comming up soon so why not me??

OK maybe this is my month to win the plane

I am ready to win this one

another month already , WOW where does it all go .  Well heres to trying again , maybe it is time for me to win one of these. Luck to all.

here we go again