Official Freewing 70mm F-16C Falcon V2 Thread

[ryramZ]

Check out the nose up angle on the landings at the beginning and the end. Nose is up but not drastically. It's all about managing airspeed and a steady descent. One landing to the next may take different things to accomplish that. In my case I was slow enough I could stuff the stick without bringing my nose up too much and bleed her off. Like others said, your right there really close to perfect.i think your descent looked good but probably steepened near the end for two reasons. The higher nose bled off speed plus not enough throttle to push it through. It really wasn't that bad. Like others said shoot touch and gos it's a good way to learn flying it all the way.

Good times, great jet, your super close!

[fhhuber]

Everything SMOOTHER.
I saw: Blip of extra power then nose pulled up like you're scared of the ground, plop.

Remove both of those and you'd have had it (and landed a bit long) From there its choosing where to touch down by controlling the descent while further out.

Soooo close to doing it the way you need to do it.

[Aros]

I sold mine a few months ago and now just look at me...

[JohnVH]

Smoother throttle and hold a steady elevator for a constant nose-up angle.

The sudden blip of throttle followed by chopping is MOST of what you did to cause the bounce.

Do a couple of flights where you just take-off, come around and do touch-n-goes. You'll be nailing it quickly.

My other flights I didnt blip the throttle, and they were worse. My bounce is from hitting the fins on the bottom of the fuse onto the pavement from the nose being too high..

I do need to just do touch and go's, this thing definitely is tricky to land compared to everything else I have flown. Do you think I need to keep some constant power on? Im trying to land as short as possible, when I fly at my flying club, Ill need to land on only 200' of paved

[JohnVH]

Looks good John, I know it's easier said than done, but try pulling a little less back elevator and you'll nail it. I know its a lot to do with nerves, but if you feel you naturally go to that back position, use a lower rate while landing, that may help too.

Grossman56

You mean less in the flare? Ill try landing on low rates next time. WX here is bad, itll be a couple weeks before I get anything flyable.

[fhhuber]

Smoother throttle and hold a steady elevator for a constant nose-up angle.

The sudden blip of throttle followed by chopping is MOST of what you did to cause the bounce.

Do a couple of flights where you just take-off, come around and do touch-n-goes. You'll be nailing it quickly.

[Grossman56]

Looks good John, I know it's easier said than done, but try pulling a little less back elevator and you'll nail it. I know its a lot to do with nerves, but if you feel you naturally go to that back position, use a lower rate while landing, that may help too.

Grossman56

[JohnVH]

Flight 3, Gotta learn better landings!

[gooniac33]

Flew mine in a lil wind last weekend...

[GBLynden]

Thank you guys for your kind comments about the camera work. It was a pleasure to capture this fine jet on video for John!

[wricksta]

Thank you sir!

[Prowler901]

Nice video Wricksta! :Cool: Excellent soundtrack. :)

[JohnVH]

Landings looked good bro. You using flaperons?

Thanks. Just want to smooth them out. No flapperons.

[wricksta]

Got to maiden my FW 80mm Mirage yesterday. Also got FPV cam footage of my FW 70mm 4s F-16 and my uncle's FW 64mm A-10.

[wricksta]

Landings looked good bro. You using flaperons?

[JohnVH]

Thanks! Just need to dial in my landings a little better now

[wricksta]

I already commented on it in the fb edf group, but I had to give props again lol. Agreed, great camera work!

[JohnVH]

Thanks all! Pretty excited to get it out again soon.

[Grossman56]

Looks great John, and that's the maiden flight!! Looks like some great flight ahead.

Grossman56

[Phatbob]

Very nice flying and great camera work!