sean@seancull.co.uk
Junior Member
Hi,
I got a HobbyKing Slowstick for Christmas and have been having great fun with it. There is a small park next to my house and it has just the right performance to fly there safely.
One negative thing that I have noticed is that if you let the slowstick dive and build up speed it does not naturally climb but instead gains more speed in a straight dive. My expectation was that it would naturally self correct.
It is quite disconcerting and certainly spooked my son when he had a go.
I have tried different CGs - I do prefer it to be at the nose heavy end of the recommendation - but this does not seem to be the issue.
I was wondering if the unusually large wing chord meant that at speed it was less inclined to deviate from its trajectory.
Has anyone else seen this type of behavior ?
Thanks, Sean
I got a HobbyKing Slowstick for Christmas and have been having great fun with it. There is a small park next to my house and it has just the right performance to fly there safely.
One negative thing that I have noticed is that if you let the slowstick dive and build up speed it does not naturally climb but instead gains more speed in a straight dive. My expectation was that it would naturally self correct.
It is quite disconcerting and certainly spooked my son when he had a go.
I have tried different CGs - I do prefer it to be at the nose heavy end of the recommendation - but this does not seem to be the issue.
I was wondering if the unusually large wing chord meant that at speed it was less inclined to deviate from its trajectory.
Has anyone else seen this type of behavior ?
Thanks, Sean