Power Pack C Commuter?

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

ok cool thanks.... what do you think of my fugly (fun & ugly) wheels??

I love them HAHAHAH! They are funny! But I bet they work great. I was 3d printing mine but my printer ran out of filament while I was asleep.

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

they help when you have full length flapperons along the whole wing... but a better config is to have seperate flaps... and ailerons

True!

 

[Matthewdupreez]

Yeah! She flies soooooooooooo slow! I shut my prop of and did a whole circuit with no engine!

did you beef up the wing spar??? ie.... increase hight of aerofoil?

 

[Matthewdupreez]

I love them HAHAHAH! They are funny! But I bet they work great. I was 3d printing mine but my printer ran out of filament while I was asleep.

cool.... mine are just made from a chunck of foam... i attached them to a drill and sanded the perfectly round.

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

did you beef up the wing spar??? ie.... increase hight of aerofoil?

Yeah. But only so it was scale to the 100% FT Commmuter. I glued a bunch of popsical sticks together to make a long wood spar.

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

cool.... mine are just made from a chunck of foam... i attached them to a drill and sanded the perfectly round.

I love that! Mine take forever to make and they don't work too well because they are plastic.... No grip at all... I have been trying putting a thin layer of hot glue around the wheels to make more traction.

 

[Matthewdupreez]

Yeah. But only so it was scale to the 100% FT Commmuter. I glued a bunch of popsical sticks together to make a long wood spar.

neat.... i just figured that if the stock one had an aerofil thickeness of 15mm..
15 x 1.7 ~~ 20mm so i just doubled up on the fb spar

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

BTW the 3D printed propeller worked great!!!

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

neat.... i just figured that if the stock one had an aerofil thickeness of 15mm..
15 x 1.7 ~~ 20mm so i just doubled up on the fb spar

Yeah my total thickness was about 2 1/2 layers of foam. so pretty close.

 

[Matthewdupreez]

Yeah my total thickness was about 2 1/2 layers of foam. so pretty close.

probably exactly the same because this batch of foam was 6 - 5.5 mm thick per sheet... (my homemade fb)

 

[Matthewdupreez]

if i can't maiden it today bc of wind...i'll get some landing & flight practice on the sim...

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

if i can't maiden it today bc of wind...i'll get some landing & flight practice on the sim...

That's fine! What sim do you use?

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

probably exactly the same because this batch of foam was 6 - 5.5 mm thick per sheet... (my homemade fb)

 

[Matthewdupreez]

Uhhhh. Noooo...... I had so much fun flying it that I wanted to try landing it.
Hmmmmm. Maybe next time. I landing it with full flaperons down and it stopped one step away from me!
BTW flaperons don't help too much. All they do is make your ailerons not work too well.

just fyi.... flaps on the very end of the wing causes extra stress on the wing join... if you want flaps... place them right next to the fuse....

 

[Matthewdupreez]

That's fine! What sim do you use?

rc desk pilot. 100% free

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

rc desk pilot. 100% free

Same here!!! The EL trainer flies just like my 170% Cessna.

 

[Matthewdupreez]

Same here!!! The EL trainer flies just like my 170% Cessna.

neat.... yea that guy sure can rocket along at a frightening pace.... do you have all the additional planes? 37 in total i think...

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

neat.... yea that guy sure can rocket along at a frightening pace.... do you have all the additional planes? 37 in total i think...

I have the ones flite test posted.

 

[Matthewdupreez]

I have the ones flite test posted.

aah ok.. yea those are the ones i am referring to.

 

[Matthewdupreez]

Sooo... Last weekend I maidens the commuter.....
Takes off asap😂.... But stupid me didn't have my airleron stick trimmed to the centre... It had been accidentally bumped all the way to the left ...
So it had a tiny bit of left airleron on it.... Soo it did a slow half circle and flew straight into a palm tree....
Ripped LG off.... Snapped very end of right wingtip off....
But very repairable...
Oh yea and it flew really stable.... Like really really stable....
Can't wait to get it back up in the air ..