Hi Rex: looks like you're coming down the home stretch!
You may want to have different settings for your plane, but I'll give you what I have on mine, and have been flying it this way for the past over 2 years with success. I think I probably have about 40-50 flights on it right now.
For Aileron: for Low, Med, and High rates for all control surfaces: I use 40%, expo 20%. medium 60%, expo 20%, and High 65%, expo 20% I use Low to Med for Aileron in flight
For Elevator: Low42%, expo 20%, Med 60%, expo 20%, and High 70%, expo 20% Usually keep the Elevator in Low for the whole flight. Elevator pretty sensitive on Corsairs
For Rudder Low, 76%, expo 20%, Med 85%, expo 20%, and High 100%, expo 20% I keep the Rudder in High throughout the flight.
For CG, I just put a mark on the point where it is 100mm aft of the leading edge at the root of the wing/fuselage joining point. I use the finger method with the gear down and the airplane upside down. I know there are all schools of thought gear up, gear down, airplane upside down, right side up, etc., but that's how I do mine, anyway.
I think if you use these settings, you should at least get a fairly stable airplane on your first flight, with hopefully no "spectacular" deviations! You'll have to trim everything out, of course. I like using flight modes so I can easily retrim as necessary for gear up, gear down, flaps up, flaps down, etc.
You're right, the exhaust on the Corsair is very dark, almost a black, as you have done on yours. Some trail back to various lengths towards the tail, but I see nothing inaccurate for how you did yours. My main goal is to start out heavier near the exhausts, and then slowly lighten up so it is a progressively fainter stain until it disappears altogether.
Since the prop is pretty long on this plane, it is possible to get a prop strike if you get too high a tail attitude during the takeoff roll or the rollout on landing. Landing with some power works well with these birds, and I still have a bit of power in until I "hunt" for the touchdown on the mains to nail the landing without bouncing. After that, power back to idle and slowly let the tail come down and then full up elevator to keep it stuck until it stops.
I think you'll love this airplane. There are very few structural differences between the earlier and later models, so you should be able to fly any Corsair that Flightline makes in this scale if you haven't changed things like motors, or other weights that will cause a different CG.
Good luck with it once you are ready to fly it! Be sure to take lots of pics at the field. In natural light it should look even better than with indoor lighting. If you have any other questions, let me know. 😀😀😀
Cheers
Davegee
You may want to have different settings for your plane, but I'll give you what I have on mine, and have been flying it this way for the past over 2 years with success. I think I probably have about 40-50 flights on it right now.
For Aileron: for Low, Med, and High rates for all control surfaces: I use 40%, expo 20%. medium 60%, expo 20%, and High 65%, expo 20% I use Low to Med for Aileron in flight
For Elevator: Low42%, expo 20%, Med 60%, expo 20%, and High 70%, expo 20% Usually keep the Elevator in Low for the whole flight. Elevator pretty sensitive on Corsairs
For Rudder Low, 76%, expo 20%, Med 85%, expo 20%, and High 100%, expo 20% I keep the Rudder in High throughout the flight.
For CG, I just put a mark on the point where it is 100mm aft of the leading edge at the root of the wing/fuselage joining point. I use the finger method with the gear down and the airplane upside down. I know there are all schools of thought gear up, gear down, airplane upside down, right side up, etc., but that's how I do mine, anyway.
I think if you use these settings, you should at least get a fairly stable airplane on your first flight, with hopefully no "spectacular" deviations! You'll have to trim everything out, of course. I like using flight modes so I can easily retrim as necessary for gear up, gear down, flaps up, flaps down, etc.
You're right, the exhaust on the Corsair is very dark, almost a black, as you have done on yours. Some trail back to various lengths towards the tail, but I see nothing inaccurate for how you did yours. My main goal is to start out heavier near the exhausts, and then slowly lighten up so it is a progressively fainter stain until it disappears altogether.
Since the prop is pretty long on this plane, it is possible to get a prop strike if you get too high a tail attitude during the takeoff roll or the rollout on landing. Landing with some power works well with these birds, and I still have a bit of power in until I "hunt" for the touchdown on the mains to nail the landing without bouncing. After that, power back to idle and slowly let the tail come down and then full up elevator to keep it stuck until it stops.
I think you'll love this airplane. There are very few structural differences between the earlier and later models, so you should be able to fly any Corsair that Flightline makes in this scale if you haven't changed things like motors, or other weights that will cause a different CG.
Good luck with it once you are ready to fly it! Be sure to take lots of pics at the field. In natural light it should look even better than with indoor lighting. If you have any other questions, let me know. 😀😀😀
Cheers
Davegee
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