Basic guide to setup and maiden your RC Plane
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2023
- I often help new pilots setup and maiden their planes. I enjoy doing it and sharing my knowledge with them to ensure they are successful in the hobby of RC Planes is what its all about. This How To setup and maiden is how I perform the setup and maiden for my NEW or Used RC planes. Also, my process for maiden flights. There are many ways to do this, but this is how I do it and it works for me.
Tremendously well done Will. The best video out there on the subject I've seen. This is the way to have successful maidens.
Adam, thanks for the kind words.. Really means a lot coming from the guy who's wrote the book on this type of stuff.. Appreciate your support...
very nice video mate...and the battery placement thing you mentioned is one of the things that constantly makes me freak out when i see plane review videos here on youtube, even from big pro channels....90% of the time they say things like "put this battery here", instead of move your CoG like 10mm more aft or more forward because otherwise this or that might happen....and here three things i would like to add to your list if i may...
1 - about checking the clevises, which is important, i would allways put fuel tubing on those, because specially freewing clevises (if they are attached to longer pushrods) tend to come off if they get under enough stress.....and while flying a jet that might happen sooner than you think...
2 - do your maiden on a day with "good" weather, way to often is saw maiden videos in 15-25 mile winds speeds, or 2 minutes before the sun went under the horizon that ended with a wrecked plane...if the weather is not ok, just pack your things and go back home, your plane will thank you for it...
3 - if you measure the CoG from the manuel, really measure it like you did in the video, because i saw to many people who looked at the drawing and said, put it on this panel line or this screw hole, because it looked like that in the drawing....but after measuring you find out that the real CoG is like 20mm behind that panel line....
...otherwise a solid instruction video, good job, i always enjoy your videos, cheers and blue skies from germany
Really appreciate the support on this video and my channel.. I like your additional items. I'm actually thinking of doing a video on getting/finding the CG. Your other tips will probably make some upcoming video too.
Well done, Will.
Always appreciate the support Earl.. Thanks
Awesome absolutely awesome THANKS so much!!!!
Thanks Buddy. Appreciate your comments.
Good job with the pre-flight Will. And it showed with your nice flying. Great landings!
I have seen occasionally that the CG is recommended to be a certain distance . . . and that later they are saying it needs to be something else. I don't hear much of anyone talking about a typical CG range anymore. When I was starting we tried to work with a range of CG between 25 to 33 % back from the leading edge. So for myself, if a suggested CG mark happens to not fall in that range I would not be so sure they are right. And if you wanted to be a little on the safe side, being closer to that 25% (thus nose heavy) is less dangerous than it being tail heavy. Nose heavy flight will mean that it takes more elevator to hold the nose up, and you can scoot the CG back a little on subsequent flights. (Just don't get too slow so that you run out of elevator authority.) If you ever fly a plane that is bad tail heavy, it will make an impression! The least elevator either way ends up being TOO much. And then you might have someone who wants a more aerobatic plane . . . or maybe even a wildly behaving plane and they want it on the tail heavy side on purpose. That is fine too . . . when they understand what they are getting into. There are a lot of ways to have fun in this hobby!
Thanks for the comments. Really appreciate the support and comments.
I've been thinking about making a video on CG.. How to find it on a specific model and determining the ideal CG for the plane and the pilots preference.
Another sincere compliment on how much good 'set up' information you covered in this video. If you missed anything - I don't know what it would be!
I like your idea about CG info. Some models are more straight forward than others. Some of the 'different' type models that come to mind are biplanes, swept wing planes, and maybe even some that are like the "old time - free flight" models. I don't have much experience with the old free flight stuff, but I understand that a plane with a flying (lifting) type horizontal stab would generally need to have a CG farther back than normal. (So this could probably be an exception to my "range info" such that the best CG might very well be greater than 33% back.)
I have seen people on line once in awhile asking about what the CG should be for their model. So, it seems that a few end up not knowing this, and I am guessing one of these type people have not heard about the old range type CG figure. So, that was my motivation for wanting to mention what I did concerning CG. Thanks again.@@SteffenRC
Great info and review nice Job
Appreciate the comments and support. Thanks so much.
Nice video. Thanks
Glad you liked it. It was fun to make.. Thanks for the support..
Great video Will. Can I ask what is the rule of thumb when it comes to the double antennas in general? I understand you want one vertical and one horizontal but is the vertical one pointing up over or down towards the ground and does the horizontal one need to point towards the front or rear of my plane or doesn’t it matter so long as both antennas are 90 degrees from each other? Im flying the v2 cirrus sr22
Sorry for been long winded.
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Dave, I place mine in a vertical and horizontal (don’t care about up or down vert). and keep away from batteries, LEDs and carbon fiber if I can. Then after the first flight (if using Spektrum) I look at the frame loss numbers. If it’s under 50, I call it good. Range check will identify any glaring issues. Also, some RX are faulty and don’t work as they should. If you get some horrible results on what should be good antennae placement, it could be a bad RX.
@@SteffenRC great info!!!! Thanks for that👍🏻🇬🇧