Hi Guys,
I flew one fight last night after work. The YS 160 ran awesome, except that I can't shut it off! It just ticks and ticks and ticks over at a very low idle. I guess this is not a totally bad problem to have
The engine ran strong and did not overheat, so cooling is fine at least in these temperatures.
How did the plane fly???? I needed about 3 micro-clicks of aileron trim, and about 6 or 7 micro-clicks of up trim on take off. So far so good! Uplines were straight, Downlines pulled out a touch. Left and right rudder knife-edge passes (short distances) seemed neutral. In horizontal flight, the rudder turns stayed flat and didn't pitch or roll out either way.
If you haven't read this before, the rudder is VERY STRONG on this plane. However, I posted the T-can picture again becsue "Yes it works."..... The rudder is very authoritative, but is not twitcy with the T-can installed.
For a first flight, I'm very pleased. I'll post more later after I get a few more on it.
Thanks,
Jim
Setup:
1. Wing - .25 deg positive
2. T-can - .25 (matches wing best I could)
3. Stab - zero deg to canopy line
4. Thrust - matches firewall/nose alignment
4. CG Static- around leading edge of wing tube - maybe just a head of it
5. CG in Flight: Inverted 45 uplines need a tad of down elevator to maintain