Moiraobrien
New member
I am a recent returnee to fixed wing flying and am now comfortable with general flying away and towards me. I cut my teeth on Eflite Sport Cub S and Champ S+ (which I stupidly lost downwind when I forgot that there was a panic button!). I moved up to the Durafly Tundra.
My first flight was OK though I had problems with one of the aileron servos so had a bad takeoff. I reattached the nose and replaced the servo but now have this problem. When I try to take off without flaps (with flaps seems to be no problem) the plane skews violently to the left and crashes - ailerons don't seem to have much effect to stop this. Having rebuilt the nose again the geometry of the fuse was not 100% but it was not enough to cause this repeated effect, causing another broken nose. Note that I checked the control surfaces and CofG every time I rebuilt.
As I have now crashed in the same way on every attempt at no flap takeoff I am now wondering if this is a problem with the design. After each rebuild I took off successfully a number of times with half or full flaps.
Any ideas?
My first flight was OK though I had problems with one of the aileron servos so had a bad takeoff. I reattached the nose and replaced the servo but now have this problem. When I try to take off without flaps (with flaps seems to be no problem) the plane skews violently to the left and crashes - ailerons don't seem to have much effect to stop this. Having rebuilt the nose again the geometry of the fuse was not 100% but it was not enough to cause this repeated effect, causing another broken nose. Note that I checked the control surfaces and CofG every time I rebuilt.
As I have now crashed in the same way on every attempt at no flap takeoff I am now wondering if this is a problem with the design. After each rebuild I took off successfully a number of times with half or full flaps.
Any ideas?