Official Freewing 70mm F-16C Falcon V2 Thread

[Prowler901]

Congrats on the maiden! Nice lineup of planes there!:Cool:

[wricksta]

My uncle and I had the airfield to ourselves this past Saturday. Got to finally maiden my Arctic Camo this weekend. Very happy with her. Also maiden’d my FW F-86, such a smooth plane! Unfortunately, the sd card in my fatsharks was corrupt so I didn’t get any videos.

[gooniac33]

CRAZY flying this past weekend...

[Prowler901]

Nice Wricksta! Hope you get to get them up in the air this weekend. :Cool:

210foo, that is a RunCam Micro Sparrow. I'm running it with an Immersion RC video TX, and a Foxtech Breeze OSD. There's also an onboard DVR from HK. The canopy is surprisingly clear, and even the slight tinting is not noticeable. :)

[wricksta]

Didn’t get to maiden on Sunday. Hopefully I’ll get a chance on Saturday.

[210foo]

Awesome flying, John. Looks like you've gotten her figured out. Those landings were real nice.

My own F-16 is progressing. I managed to "stuff" all the wires in. :Silly: So I was able to do a full up test tonight. All the flight surfaces are working with the A3S3 gyro. And, I've got her balanced at 3.5" with an Admiral 4000 all the way aft. AUW is sitting at 3.5 lbs empty. She's a bit heavier (4.8 oz) due to the FPV gear in the cockpit area. That's why I had to move the RX and Gyro aft. I can now glue in the tail surfaces. And, fix up the hatch that covers the gyro and RX. Then it's taxi testing and waiting for good weather to shoot for the sky. Gonna be excitin'! :Scared:

hey prowler, what camera setup is that? I've been wanting to do the exact same thing to my 70mm f16 lol

[wricksta]

Very nice prowler!!!I brought Acrtic Camo to maiden this weekend but we had 18-20mph winds at the airfield so I decided against putting her up. Did get some good pics of me and my uncle's arctic camo.

[Prowler901]

Awesome flying, John. Looks like you've gotten her figured out. Those landings were real nice.

My own F-16 is progressing. I managed to "stuff" all the wires in. :Silly: So I was able to do a full up test tonight. All the flight surfaces are working with the A3S3 gyro. And, I've got her balanced at 3.5" with an Admiral 4000 all the way aft. AUW is sitting at 3.5 lbs empty. She's a bit heavier (4.8 oz) due to the FPV gear in the cockpit area. That's why I had to move the RX and Gyro aft. I can now glue in the tail surfaces. And, fix up the hatch that covers the gyro and RX. Then it's taxi testing and waiting for good weather to shoot for the sky. Gonna be excitin'! :Scared:

[JohnVH]

My goal was to work on landings, but ended up just having fun, couldnt help it! I do need to buy more batteries, whats the biggest people are using? And what flight time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR_dauqw2Ws

[xviper]

what gain settings are you using on the gyro

Are you referring to urrl's maiden flight video? What leads you to believe he's using a gyro? Was it mentioned in the video? :Confused:

[RC Oldy]

what gain settings are you using on the gyro

[Aros]

Nice flight and greaser! Isn't she fun??

[Apache Jets]

What position and strobe lights did you use...look great..

[Prowler901]

Congrats! Beautiful flying as well. :Cool:

[urrl]

A bit windy for a maiden flight but I decided to risk it.

[Boots Whirlygig]

Looks and sounds great urrl. :Cool:

[Aros]

Looks sweet!

[urrl]

Some lighting, paint and sound mods I did. Too windy for a maiden.

[Hawk4me]

I commented on the video for you as well. I will go ahead and post my old 4s here as well. Try giving it a bit of roll out to start with then once you got the no bounce under control start working a bit more on the AOA. I'm still in the process of getting my 6S one just like you under better landings but I never bounce. The problem I've had with these things is getting them to slow down enough to not go crazy on you. I will usually start my approach turn and as the turn is almost complete I cut power and start letting it settle in. I find most of the time unless I have a good head wind you can land power off most of the time without to much trouble and it flares perfectly once it slows down without you having to do much. I got it harder cause I have to dodge light poles on the landing approach LOL. Your close though if you don't have it already do the upgraded main's as well they really help absorb the roughness you can get sometime's and keep bounce down. I gotta say though I wish the 6S sounded as good as the 4s version does. Maybe i'm just partial but it sounds better imo.

[Aros]

Not bad at all! Like Ryan said good throttle management and clean descent/glide slope is vital. If I had a dollar for every perfect landing I have had with a jet I could buy a really nice receiver. If I had a dollar for every landing that made me want to throw my radio on the ground I could buy the new 90mm F-4D Phantom PNP. Twice!

LOL

I have the HSD 105mm version of this jet and oh momma! Keeps you on your toes but the premise remains the same. F-16's love a bit nose high AoA on final approach but nothing is more important than good throttle management (to control descent rate) with gentle elevator inputs towards the flare phase. You're right there! Not bad at all!