about 25mm behind the CG marks. But only because I use TV nozzles. With fixed nozzles I wouldn't recommend going past 15mm behind the CG marks on this one.
Yep, pretty much. You could do a similar thing without it, but without a great degree of control or consistency, and then essentially lacking the ability to control the aircraft at the exit, so most often than not you'd fall out of the sky or get locked in high alpha, instead of smoothly exiting on command.
Alejandro I did the spring cut to make it stiffer as an inspiration by your video and flew my A-10 today. Man, it’s absolutely a great change! Thanks for the tip! ✌️
El mío ya lo he volado al menos 20 veces y con el CG recomendado nunca tuve problema. Lo aterrizo con velocidad pero con un descenso bien lento. Uso 2 barerías HRB de 5000mah exactamente en el medio de las monturas de plástico.
@@RC4ever a veces varía de modelo a modelo, mi F-14 vuela muy inestable con las alas retraídas, y hay gente que me dice que vuela excelente. Hacé el intento con más velocidad y si esa versión la tiene, usá la reversa para frenarlo. En reversa frena bastante rápido.
Got this A10 too to fly her FPV, and much easier to make a grease when flying FPV with airspeed indication in the goggles… One day past, wanted to make a flight LOS, and made the same landing, bending the nose gear, too slow and bouncing after stalling! (My CG is aft with both 5000mA one upon the other)
seems like it would be harder to fly from first person, especially if there is delay in pitch and roll indication. Did you program all the HUD parameters and display?
Well, it's easier in some aspects and harder in others. For example, it's harder to fly high alpha as you lose visual references. But being inside the cockpit generally allows you a greater level of precision in pretty much everything else. And no, I didn't program the HUD parameters, just implemented a commercially available OSD FC ;)
Ok first of all 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻fuck yea to Rob Halford! Second, I've seen the A-10 do so amazing stuff, but you were doing things way past anything it was ever designed for! Awesome my friend, just awesome.
Thanks David, Halford rules!! 🤘🤘🤘 It's kinda tricky to get the A-10 doing certain stuff... but it should get even crazier once I start moving my CG back, huehue... 😝
Thanks for sharing more of the A-10 awesomeness! If I’d only read your description my guess would have been A-10 😂 . Even my little eflite A-10 64mm seems to have the same issues. The infamous bucking bronco! This plane likes an Air Force Smooth landing or she’ll bite back 😆! Hopefully your nose gear pin isn’t as flimsy as the smaller ones. Most of us replaced with hardened steel screw trimmed to fit in like a pin. Can’t wait to see you thrust tube mod!
Thanks Hype! Certainly, the jet asks for very careful approaches. It's not that it's hard to land, but if you slow down too much, you are in for a nasty surprise! I managed to badly bend the pin and broke it afterwards when trying to straighten it out. Had to end up replacing it by a new one. The bronco thing is mostly Freewing's fault for installing an excessively strong spring on the nose gear strut. After softening it by cutting a few windings the jet no longer bounces that badly. Still need to be careful to keep speed up to avoid sudden nose drops, but that's that! ;)
Regarding the terrible landings, as I've got more comfortable with the jet and started landing slower, I ran into loss of elevator control issues. At some speeds, the entire horizontal stab is pretty much blanked out by the wing's wake and the nose will suddenly drop. No amount of up elevator will compensate for it. You can see on the slowmo replays that the elevator is fully deflected pitch-up, and even that is insufficient. But the worst part is that the extremely stiff spring of the nose gear makes the jet's nose bounce up badly, instantly gaining excessive AoA which makes the jet stall further without any modicum of control authority left. At that point, you can just prepare for the worst and pray for the best. The fact that the stuck thrustline sucks and pitches the nose down also works against the pilot here, as you can't soften the impact by opening the throttle, as that would pitch the nose down even more violently. I've already fixed the spring issue in subsequent flights by making it softer, but I still need to shift CG further back and replace the engines nozzles by others with a proper thrustline. Keep tuned!
@@RC4ever I'm doing great! Though right now I'm a little too occupied being a dad, but I still get a few hours of flight every now and then. No time for creating videos, but there will come a time for that in the future. Hope you're doing good 😁👍
@@RCTommy Looking forward to 'The Return of the RCTommy' 😁😁😁🥰 As for me, well, I get by. Could be better, could be worse! Have some stuff going on in my life right now draining a lot of my energy, but that said, I guess I can't complain too much! :p Hopefully I'll be maidening the Eurosport soon ^^
@@EDF_FANatic I removed the pilot figure, installed all the electronics as far aft as possible and added a bit of tail weight... plus, the ordnance helps, but even then, the jet is still pretty nose heavy. :'(
Wow great piloting J as always can I say that again!?! 😂 nice landings as well- ok so I’m gonna say this again can you just grab the FMS Su27!!?? Do the 2x 6s SMC 3600s Airbrake batt bay Mod!!!! Let’s do it!!
@InTheTubeDeepRC Thanks Tube!! Right now I don't plan to get that one... I have too many ongoing projects. If I was to buy another model, I'd probably get the Freewing J-10 instead. It's a lot of money, and I already have a bunch of jets so I'm starting to run out of space at home so... so I have to be picky! 🤣
Thanks @stewjade !! We really try hard to bring the best quality! Also, we're probably one of the very few channels that do post-processing and video stabilization to enhance the smoothness of the motion ;)
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Thanks! I don't recall right now, will check it out next time... but surely not as far back as I'd like! This is the farthest back I managed to get with a lightweight 4400mAh pack pushed all the way back. It also depends on the ordnance loadout. Fully loaded it may be 15mm behind the recommendation, I think.
@JoseOrtega-df3zj Maybe you can find some in Ali, but probably better just to get an A3S4 as it offers a few advantages over the S3, particularly for jets that use Elevons, as the S3 didn't allow indivividual settings of each control surface and could often lead to requiring the installation of a reversed servo, or having to manually reverse the polarity of the servo wires yourself.
Thank you! Loaded rolls FTW!! :DDD I disagree with the best EDF statement though... it's a great jet but I find it lacking in many ways. I'd list the FW Euro or F-22 as clearly better jets overall ATM. A lot of it is personal preference, sure, but there are objective things like ease of handling, performing maneuvers, stability or power. This F-16 in particular feels like it struggles quite a bit in the air even with lightweight packs, where the other 2 I mentioned have better flight times even while being able to deliver more power ;) I guess I'm partial to 90mm setups, haha!
@@RC4ever very cool! i have the fw f15 and I assumed the fw F22 would fly similar which isn't all that great. I'll have to give the f22 a try per your remarks! thank you for the reply!
Congratulations! It’s a great helicopter, and the pilot has a good handling of the machine. I love Trex 600 EP/ESP. But please, how many teeth does the pinion and the main gear have? Thanks. Best Regards
Impressive control. Rolls were super smooth. I feel like i only got my roll axis dialled in on mine with the tailerons when i set them to 80 /-80 on aileron to left elevator mix. Do you have your tailerons on a tamped down or a curve mix as well or do you run them essentially at 100 /-100? Cheers Andy from australia 🇦🇺
@keilorsunburyrc Thanks Andy! I don't have any mix like that on my Hornet (other than using tailerons, obviously). I just have full throws set with huge expo and a gyro helping on the stabs and rudders. ♡
@keilorsunburyrc I do run a pretty aft CG though. That will indeed help with axial rolls, more so in combination with the gyro, not to mention much better knofe edge properties. ;)
@RC4ever yes interesting how you run an aft cg with no issues. I balance mine right at the wing bolt. Anything further back than that and she feels unstable real quick for me, though I did swap out the 9 blade edf with the 12 blade fms metal edf which added a bit more tail weight. She would accelerate stall very easily for me in the loops with the high rates so i had moved my elevator in one hole on the servo arm for more control but now I feel like I need more throw again lol. I guess I just need to understand the unique flying characteristics of this bird more.
@@keilorsunburyrc My CG was usually 110-115mm as opposed to the recommended 88mm that the manual suggests, which is extremely nose heavy IMO. That said, couldn't move it much further aft than that because lateral stability degraded fast. One way or another, using a gyro allowed me to eventually run even further aft CG setups.
Thank you very much! I do watch a lot of full-scale Typhoon displays to visualize the maneuvers and later try to replicate them with my model, so I'm glad you noticed! :DDD
