Hi Pete, The first thing I did was to look up the Condor on the NSP site to refresh my memory of the Condor. First thing I see is a plane with almost no LE sweep and a fair amount of TE Sweep (forward). The drawing shows a 230cm root chord (a bit under 10") A cg point is shown that is about 25% of the root chord which would be about 2-1/2" back from the LE. That looks about right to me for starting out. I think that Sal is way off the mark for this airplane at 43% back. (Just my experienced opinion :-) )
So I'd recommend that you get both the CG and the hook forward before you try again. You will be much better off if you can get a pilot more experienced with this class of plane to trim it out for you. Once its set up and trimmed you can probably handle it easily. OPINION: I do not think that any sailplane with a V-tail should be classified as an Intermediate airplane. All v-tails should be considered expert airplanes. Pilots can purchase and fly whatever they want but it does a disservice to the soaring community to label a v-tail as an intermediate plane. You guys moving up to higher performance aircraft would do well to keep that in mind. V-tails fly just fine, thank you, but getting them set up correctly takes skill beyond what most intermediate pilots posses. End of rant. Thermals Rick At 11:47 AM 4/23/02 -0700, Pete S. wrote: >The histart was recommended by Rick Hollyday for open >class. I think it's his 3-meter tubing. Unfortunately >I left my fish/tension scale at home but the tension >was enough to have my launching buddy breath heavily >and the plane jumped up like a cat with its butt on >fire. >--- "Douglas, Brent" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > that's a good point, what kind of hi-start are you > > using? > > > > I bought a larger pinnacle hi-start from sal a > > couple years back, and that > > will launch my schpotdorker, but I pull it way back > > - if you're using too > > small a hi-start or you're not used to a good, hard > > launch, you're going to > > have trouble... > > > > can you winch it w/ someone? have you flown a ship > > like this before? are > > you using a hi start made for ships this big? > > > > if you're stuck, make sure you give it a good push > > as you release it, and > > maybe trim in some down while you're getting used to > > it - remember to take > > that out as you come off..... > > > > crossing my fingers for you, > > brent > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane > > News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more >http://games.yahoo.com/ >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" >and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
