Louis,
I have a pretty small plane and it is very cg sensitive. What I mean by
that is that I measured the cg, statically, by marking the cg to the
manufactured specifications, and taped a small battery to the location, then
balanced it. It balanced, but would always fall first after a second or
two. Figured good enough.
NO WAY, it was VERY tail heavy for this plane, very difficult to fly. I
also noticed that even though the plane floated a bit, it took a lot more
weight on the nose than I would have thought to bring it back down.
Also, there was a HUGE difference on the cg location, I mean if I was off by
1/8" on taping the battery to the cg location, it was a huge difference in
balance.
I think you are still tail heavy, it is always easier to be a bit nose heavy
than tail heavy.
Jim Cubbage
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 11:26 PM
To: soaring
Subject: [RCSE] mini salto help
hi:
does anyone fly a mini salto molded ??
it is sold by slmodel and nsp.
i have one and its been real hard to fly ...it tends to snaproll on turns.
it s very well balanced ...tried everything and havent been able to getit to
fly right.
im using ailerons and the vtail control surfaces only for elevator......
does anybody think this is my problem..?..do you think i realy have to
install an extra servo so that it will have a working rudder.?
i have flown so many sailplanes leaving the rudder on neautral and only use
eleveator and ailerons,,that includes my mini ellipse wich has a v tail and
i only use it for elevator and works perfect.
any help on this mini salto apprecieted.
luis
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