Jessek1486
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Hey all, so I've read about powered off glide testing, but have found very little in the way of troubleshooting a poor result. That part seems to be left for interpretation.
Anyway, I seem to be having a strange issue with my planes gliding in such a way that they eat dirt.
It's not as simple as them just stalling, then going nose down, as that'd be simple, right? CG too far back.
No, this is more like a 30 degree angle trajectory.
I even spent 30 mins at the park(after crashing in <2secs of powered flight) throwing my plane but with the CG in all different positions, just trying to see if something would get it to glide. I had it very far back, very far forward and all inbetween.
My only thought is, the plane is too heavy to glide at speeds which I can comfortably throw it?
I can barely get my planes to glide, so powered flight is a nogo until I resolve this.
I've even been playing around with little bamboo skewer gliders that I kinda improv, just to understand various different configs and their modes of failure. None of these do what my actual RC plane builds do.
Perhaps, I have unrealistic expectations of what a successful unpowered glide is supposed to be, in my mind that is a graceful glide similar to a paper airplane that slowly coasts until the ground gently meets it, and friction slows it to a rest.
Is a near 30-40 degree angle nose first landing successful? There's almost no info on this topic.
Anyway, I seem to be having a strange issue with my planes gliding in such a way that they eat dirt.
It's not as simple as them just stalling, then going nose down, as that'd be simple, right? CG too far back.
No, this is more like a 30 degree angle trajectory.
I even spent 30 mins at the park(after crashing in <2secs of powered flight) throwing my plane but with the CG in all different positions, just trying to see if something would get it to glide. I had it very far back, very far forward and all inbetween.
My only thought is, the plane is too heavy to glide at speeds which I can comfortably throw it?
I can barely get my planes to glide, so powered flight is a nogo until I resolve this.
I've even been playing around with little bamboo skewer gliders that I kinda improv, just to understand various different configs and their modes of failure. None of these do what my actual RC plane builds do.
Perhaps, I have unrealistic expectations of what a successful unpowered glide is supposed to be, in my mind that is a graceful glide similar to a paper airplane that slowly coasts until the ground gently meets it, and friction slows it to a rest.
Is a near 30-40 degree angle nose first landing successful? There's almost no info on this topic.