Originally posted by TPS
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Here is my maiden flight report. First off I wasn't going to maiden this weekend because I didn't have the right ESC yet, but I decided to go for it using the F-22 ESC that I had and added and extension to it so the EC5 would reach my battery. I didn't bother putting on the elevator covers or antennas yet or painting anything, won't until I get the quirks out of it. So, double checked everything, only the rudders, gear, steering and lights are running throught the BB. I did not see any glitches at first, I missed something and I found this out when I rotated on maiden and the gear started going up the jet went hard left, so I moved the sticks and took my time and got her trimmed out but it felt kind of weird for some reason, like a yaw problem, so I put the gear down and I had to trim again, strange I thought, put the gear up and had to trim again, well, put the flaps down and got a roll to the left, okay I can fix that but the gear up or down was strange, anyway I landed just fine, little hot with no flaps but I have plenty of runway, taxi back and all is good but I noticed rudders are straight, ailerons good, elevator good, so I put the gear up and the rudders kicked to the left as soon as the nose gear disabled, dropped the gear and the rudders went back straight, now I'am mad, this just happened on my new Camo L-39, same problem, so I bypassed everything on the L-39 and it works great, I did forget to check this problem on the F-18, so I bypassed the rudders and steering and put two more flight with no issues. I will say again and you can disagree, these BB boxes are junk and I hope they come up with another solution. Well anyway it flies very well, looks great, take off was straight and used very little runway, landing was the same, those big flaps work and required very little up elevator, it almost landed itself, wow what a floater, nice flare onto my new main wheels.
CG 85mm with gear down
Ailerons 16mm/no expo or dual rate
Elevator 25mm/no expo or dual rate
Flaps 45mm
Very little rudder needed
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