Category: R/C Airplanes

Tags: Fast Slope landing a 4m in 19 mph Winds

First attempt started too high. I pushed down, but it picked up too much speed, so I popped it up, flew back out, and used the motor to climb back up a little bit. While doing so, the motor spuddered a little bit. My thought was that my battery was low, and I'll have to stick this next landing. On the next approach, I came in a little slower, but still had a little speed. I thought w/ so much wind (it was about 19 mph) that it would be better to have a little speed to punch through any rotors, to be able to penetrate, and I didn't want to be on the verge of a stall on the back edge at the beginning of the landing area. I varied my altitude w/ crow, and speed w/ elevator. When I touched down I was still going w/ some speed and it skid about 25' to a stop. It made a lot of noise, but it was a soft touch down. The other guy said he couldn't believe I landed it that fast. I was like 'oh boy, that wasn't fun.', but was pumped that I landed successfully. from fly2bob@RCGroups

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