1stflightdave I’m going take a guess as to why you want to get some electronic help in landing this plane. My guess is based on my own early experiences with this plane. It was notorious for the “bouncy, bouncy, kangaroo” thing when landing (for me). I changed out the main struts for trailing links and this helped to some degree but didn’t fix the “bunny hop”. Then I put in a HobbyEagle gyro, thinking that this would make it land better. Well, it did ........... about 1/2 the time. In retrospect, I don’t think the gyro did a thing for the landing. I think it was because I was getting better at figuring out how to do it —- regulating the throttle better on approach, trying different degrees of flaps from no flaps to full flaps. I don’t bounce this plane anymore. Took out the gyro and used it for another plane that was more affected by crosswinds. This plane is heavy enough and big enough that even crosswinds don’t bother it much.
Now, let’s turn to another really big, heavy jet - Eflite twin 70mm SU-30. It has “safe select”. I’ve used “safe” for landing and not used it for landing. It seems to make no difference. What safe select does is to limit the bank angle so you don’t over control it when you are new to the hobby. However, using safe select makes for very labored, long, wide turning circles - almost scary wide. I use safe select only when I get distracted with other planes in the air. It’s easy to over control when you’re watching another plane in the corner of your eye to avoid a collision.
Now, let’s turn to another really big, heavy jet - Eflite twin 70mm SU-30. It has “safe select”. I’ve used “safe” for landing and not used it for landing. It seems to make no difference. What safe select does is to limit the bank angle so you don’t over control it when you are new to the hobby. However, using safe select makes for very labored, long, wide turning circles - almost scary wide. I use safe select only when I get distracted with other planes in the air. It’s easy to over control when you’re watching another plane in the corner of your eye to avoid a collision.
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