Official Freewing 70mm F-16C Falcon V2 Thread

[Mizer67]

Looks great. Still curious about how much weight it added.

[OmeyDaHomey]

Thanks SanExup !!
I’ll post some more updates/pics moving forward.

🥃💥🥃!
OmeyDaHomey

[SanExup]

Thanks OmeyDaHomey It looks smooth!

[OmeyDaHomey]

SanExup and Mizer67,
I used Deluxe Materials EZE-Kote and their carbon fiber tissue to “glass” the top of the body and tail/rudder. Used their lightweight FG cloth to do the wings and stabs.

I also did a thin layer of their Foam Armor on parts of the the underside.

[Mizer67]

How much weight did the glassing add?

[SanExup]

OmeyDaHomey Did you glass it with polyurethane?

[Aros]

Yo fellow PacNW'erner! OmeyDaHomey feel free to contact me anytime! I'll be active flying again here when the weather shifts to Spring/Summer...Good luck, this is a fun jet!

[OmeyDaHomey]

Aros ,
Good to see some peeps from the PNW on here! I recently bought the Arctic Camo 6s and am gonna be looking for some places to fly this Spring after ski season ends and I get some flights in on a sim and a trainer. I put some time into glassing and repainting the F16, so gonna take some tone before I take it out for a maiden. Would love to connect for pointers and tips! I’m located in Seattle

Cheers! OmeyDaHomey

[Jett]

Just got the upgrade F16, and want to add nav lights. Any recommendations ?

[Gilatrout]

Range tested and just needs a few adjustments to nose gear before the maiden.

[paulrkytek]

long-love-r.c I would suggest trawling through you tube then practice a lot on a flight simulator. Keep the plane light, my 3300 6s batteries weigh 510gms, use the aftermost cg and if you can mix ailerons with flaps 6mm take off flaps 12mm landing flaps. On final approach use full flaps, slow it down enough to point the nose up( not too high ) and the plane should start to sink with a nose up attitude as you reduce power to about 1/4 throttle, you then have to use the throttle to adjust the rate of descent and keep the nose up or let it drop as appropriate with minor adjustments of throttle and elevator in combination to maintain the angle, you should then be landing on the mains with the front wheel about 3 inches in the air. Suggest do 3 dummy approaches at high level first so that you can get the high alpha angle and sink rate into your memory bank before attempting the landing. Good luck !!!

[long-love-rc]

How to fly high alpha on this Freewing F16 70mm?

I just finished assembling my F-16. I keep hearing people talking about high alpha landing. Although I know what it is, I don't know how to setup the model to do it and how actually fly it. Can anyone give me some clues on this topic? Thank you!

[RC30Flyer]

So I've read thru this thread and I see that some guys are adding tail weight to get CG correct. What CG are you guys flying at? By the manual 90mm, further forward, further rearward? The batteries I have currently are the Turnigy graphene 4000mah 65C, weighs in at 733g...Pushed all the way back, I'm still nose heavy. I'm trying to not purchase more batteries and really can't afford them right now. Will the extra weight be detrimental to the jet flying? If you added tail weight, where did you put it? Cheers!

[TangoVector]

Here is a picture of my battery support for my 4000mah batteries. It is glued in the "roof" and I use different depron pieces to get a snug fit depending on the battery. Word of caution: Nothing but the shape of the depron-piece is stopping it from end up in the fan. Realised that just in time

[paulrkytek]

Timing normally works on low setting, try going back to low, then calibrate the throttle lever/esc again.. I had fun after trashing the fuselage due to brain failure and some blue box channels did not work so I scrapped the blue box and just used Y leads, retracts etc now work fine. fan works fine
( FMS70mm 6s 12 blade pro) I fly off grass and put in a flap /aileron mix, 1/4 inch take off, 1/2 inch landing. I took the opportunity for a bit of a repaint at the same time as per photos attached

[dsmithwc04]

Hey all. I am having a bad day with my f16. I got this baby up in the air back in January and only put on a dozen flights. It was put in hanger and a few others saw the bulk of the summer flying. I took the f16 out today for a few flights and right away had an issue on take off. She really struggled to get off ground. It flew like we were dragging a 20lb blowing ball behind it. Even my buddy said oh boy that’s not good. I managed to get her down but the nose gear didn’t deploy. So after charging up and running through esc I set timing to high and tried again. No difference. She is a pig now. About to throw this f16 in trash. Any suggestions? Like I said it flew great at first but now she is a dog. Won’t pull any verticals, speed is drastically reduced.

This is an old post but I had the same problem with my HP V2 F16. Ended up buying a new ARF and swapping electronics and now flies great. Any ideas?

[RCPilotguy]

Yeah that was the maiden flight. I tend to come in a little hotter on those....Thanks!!

[Aros]

RCPilotguy It "appears" you're coming in fairly hot for starters. Your touchdown seems closer to mid-runway than just beyond the threshold. You might try extending your downwind leg and when on final don't be afraid to dead stick to drop altitude momentarily (once you clear the tree line of course) and then give just enough power to keep her above stall speed with a gentle nose high attitude. This should allow for slower landings closer to the threshold. Just my thoughts.

[RCPilotguy]

Has anybody tried putting brakes on this thing. All my landings seem to roll off the edge of our 300 foot runway.
Here is a video of the maiden. F-16 starts at the 2:00 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poHiYgl3CIo

[TangoVector]

Have not tried that yet. It was a little bit on the extreme side when the photo was taken. Have flown approx ten flights on that field, it worked later when it had dried up