Don Szczur (0 followers)
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I am very excited to see several young pilots at the local field learning and perfecting flying with their first RC plane and now moving into more advanced setups. In one case the father brought his son out for a couple of calm evenings this month and he soloed in two evenings! They had lots of q...
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Michael Kranitz
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Don Szczur
The next item he wanted to adjust was his dual rate and expo. Since he had a lot of throw, he desired the extra control but with expo. Attached is an example of rates set up for the aileron, rudder and elevator, with expo all tied to one switch, for example switch F. Its a very simple setup and ...
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Michael Kranitz
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Don Szczur
The next adjustment was to move the trim resolution down to 1 for rudder, elevator and ailerons. The stock setting is 5, which defaults this way to help get the plane trimmed out generally, but for precision, by moving the trim resolution to 1, it provides higher degree of precision for trim.
Michael Kranitz
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Don Szczur
We next moved to mixing. His preference was for a larger battery which moved the CG forward and his plane tended to want to pull out of a dive all by itself rather than fly straight downward. The p-mix functions allow this very simple mix- so easy to program in- Throttle as master elevator as sla...
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It's been a bit wet here in Northern VA lately and a fellow club member with a 70mm Viper had difficulties getting airborne on the very soft runway. I did some test flying with my Viper and was able to very easily take off after adding about 30 degrees of flaps, and land very slow with 60 degrees o...
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Rick Higginson
We got lucky here in Tucson this morning. The rain decided to hold off until almost noon (original prediction was for it to hit by 8 a.m.) I got in four flights before heading home just after 9.