Ian Jones Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Any info or tips regarding control surface movements or flying characteristics greatfully received.27/03/07 - update maiden flight made, great to fly with both engines running. Rudders not very effective - anyone any experience with this?04/03/07 New rudders have had desired effect. Photo's I upload some days ago have not appeared yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth P Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Looking forward to seeing it fly Ian! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted April 14, 2007 Author Share Posted April 14, 2007 Hi Gareth,I hope to clock up another flight this weekend and post some flying photo's soon after. If I can get some video done I'll put in a link to it. Hey what's this? Gareth P? If I'm not mistaken you will be seeing the real thing at a field near you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 Gareth,At least you saw it fly!The maintenance schedule following rigidy testing may take a little while.Hopefully it will be airworthy soon.Oh also - let me have your email address next time I see you - the club list is very hard to read and I think that is why none of my emails seem to be reaching you.Bye, Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth P Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Hope to see it fly again after the "modifications"required after last flight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted April 27, 2007 Author Share Posted April 27, 2007 Too right and one of the modifications will be to fit bigger fuel tanks I think I'm only goping to get 8 minutes out of the ones fitted at present. Another modification will be to re-instate the steerable nosewheel - that's all it would have needed to prevent it from rolling into the battery box the other day, fortunately no harm was done but just taking out a prop could have ended the day's flying unnecessarily. Not everyone agrees with me but I think learning to land properly is far better than locking off the nosewheel. The gains of having this steering by far outweighs the losses of nose legs and fuselage noses. Many new flyers damage this steering mechanism because of landing nose heavy and sometimes this is caused by setting the CG too far forward. The advice "better a little nose heavy than tail heavy" tends to end up as being nose heavy is OK, well it isn't. It makes the final glide and in some case the flare for a gentle landing impossible. Some people even convert to tail draggers so they don't damage the nose leg which by the sheer absence of a noseleg is bound to work (even if it does nose over & stick the prop in the strip) but anyone who can actually do a proper three pointer on a tail dragger should be able to land on a tricycle under carraige easily.Anyway the "maintenance" isn't too serious but will take a good few hours to do properly and as you will see in due course, I have a few other things in the development hangar at the moment so delays are inevitable.Have you had a look at www.forum.scrcs.co.uk yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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