Hi all,

I thank you very much for your comments.

Maiden done.

Sorry, no movie.

Take off with about 15 degres of flap was nice and easy. Power is enough.

The flying is very nice. Little more than half throttle suits for horizontal flying. I flew without any gyro, the rates of ailerons and elevator , dialed in according the kit instructions, were little to much for my flying. I just flew go arounds on this very first flight. A few clicks of trimming on ailerons and elevator. CG with my turbine BF100 is perfect, when placing 2x 2500 batteries for RX , 1x 2500 for engine and 1x 2500 for gear in the very front. But I changed the steel tubes for horizontal stab and wings by carbon tubes. Which safes some 200g :)

A bit on elevator down mix, about 3 mm, when applying, was ok.

As it was my first flight with a turbine, so I am quite happy with the result. On our grass landing strip (little more tham 100m) I have had to aplly full flaps to reduce speed. On low finals I was to slow with the gas, giving more power to late , or better: the turbine accelerated slower than an combustion engine, so that the plane drops to gound to early. I have to repare two carbon bearers ot main gear now. But could be much worse.  :)

see you all

Hi Matt, thanks very much. Yes, I hope to get comfortable. I am quite eager to get the bird into the air again as soon as possible.

I need your help or thoughts , please, about the following:

All gears, main landing gears and front gear are each bolted to a gear-mount. This mounts are made of  plates of 2mm carbon.

The 2mm carbon mounts are bolted on the airframe on bearer.

The idea of the constructor seems to be: when making a hard landing, you destroy only the thin mounts and not the bearer or the airframe itself. Better to break the mounts, then to brake the airframe.

This is a broken mount:

On the four outer holes , it is screwed onto the bearer on the airframe. The gear itself is bolted on the four inner holes.

I am not sure about further following this intention of the constructor. The thin, small carbon mounts are not very stable or really hard. I am quite sure, that a more stable contruction would have survived my landing, as the landing wasnt to hard.

So what to do?

Should I replace this mount with material of the same thickness, i.2. 2mm. I believe, the new carbon I would use, would be of better quaility then the original one.

Or should I go for more material, more thickness, 3 or 3.5 mm? Taht would hold on more?

Any suggestions welcome.