pinchflat
08-16-2009, 01:57 AM
Plane: Parkzone Super Decathlon Brushless PNP
Radio used: Spectrum DX5
Batterys used: Tenergy 2 cell 900mah 25c
I received my Super Decathlon as a Plug and Play version. The plane is nicely packaged and there was no damage to the plane at all. There was a second set of rubberbands in the box that was labled to use intsead of the ones in the normal parts bag. All that is needed to do is plug in the two halves of the gear, plug in my receiver mount the wing and go. Very little trimming was needed to get the control surfaces nutral.
I choose to modify the battery box to use the 2 cell lipos that I had on hand for my CX2. These are 900mah 25c units. With these I am geting a solid 12-15min flights.
For the first flight the wind was out of the North about 5-7 mph. The roll out was short and the climb out was quite steep. I reduced throttle to 50% stick and circled once around the pattern the went to 25% ans set up for final. I let the speed drop a bit too much and stalled it at about 6" from the ground. This was a less than ideal landing but there was no damage so i'll call it sucessfull.
The weather conditions today were much more favorable so I went back out to Cssy56s house too run a few more packs. This plane is an absolute joy to fly. Good power (not 3D but good). Very stable with no bad habits. Loops are big and stable on low rates much tighter on high rates. I find that cruising around at half throttle the low rates are fine, but you can turn up the wick flip to high rated and have some fun.
Summay
Good:
Size
Speed
Stability
Power
Bad:
Only 3 ch
A bit limited to light winds
Needs a smooth surface to land on
Radio used: Spectrum DX5
Batterys used: Tenergy 2 cell 900mah 25c
I received my Super Decathlon as a Plug and Play version. The plane is nicely packaged and there was no damage to the plane at all. There was a second set of rubberbands in the box that was labled to use intsead of the ones in the normal parts bag. All that is needed to do is plug in the two halves of the gear, plug in my receiver mount the wing and go. Very little trimming was needed to get the control surfaces nutral.
I choose to modify the battery box to use the 2 cell lipos that I had on hand for my CX2. These are 900mah 25c units. With these I am geting a solid 12-15min flights.
For the first flight the wind was out of the North about 5-7 mph. The roll out was short and the climb out was quite steep. I reduced throttle to 50% stick and circled once around the pattern the went to 25% ans set up for final. I let the speed drop a bit too much and stalled it at about 6" from the ground. This was a less than ideal landing but there was no damage so i'll call it sucessfull.
The weather conditions today were much more favorable so I went back out to Cssy56s house too run a few more packs. This plane is an absolute joy to fly. Good power (not 3D but good). Very stable with no bad habits. Loops are big and stable on low rates much tighter on high rates. I find that cruising around at half throttle the low rates are fine, but you can turn up the wick flip to high rated and have some fun.
Summay
Good:
Size
Speed
Stability
Power
Bad:
Only 3 ch
A bit limited to light winds
Needs a smooth surface to land on