--- Bill Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you have a full house plane in the sky and its a tad tail heavy ... squirrelly as all get out. What actions might you take to get it back down .. unbroken?
My hypothetical response: 90 degrees of flap and the fastest dive your airframe will permit, for a composite this should be vertical. Keep the speed as high as possible (within the flaps situation) in order to maintain flow over the tail. Test your ability to pull out immediately. Pull out above the ground, hopefully. Land. Breath. If you get upside down and you are below 1-mistake height then call that your last mistake and land upside down. Flapped planes are quite managable in this orientation and it's usually a lot less damaging to land this way than the vertical dive that results from a desperate last-second attempt to get right-side up. Jeb. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
