Re: Let ASH26 with a hacker in it
Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 21:02
Hi Terry, good to know someone is watching!
This is actually my second conversion, but the first that will ROG. I love big scalies, but not knowing anyone locally with a tug bigger than 60cc, it's become very frustrating.
The process of converting the ASH was a little stressful to start, cutting a perfectly good fuz like that is always going to make you a bit nervous. BUt now I've done it, I intend to do it again several times. Prolly use the Torcman setup next time so that I can remove the prop and yoke and leave the nose pretty much untouched, although it's £200 a pop, so not a cheap alternative.
The Hacker motor is superb, I've just changed the prop blades to 13x10 so the ROG will benefit from a little more clearance, as you can see, our field 'helped' launch the model. As per Carolynne's advice, I kept a little up elevator in to stop the nose dropping and the prop striking and as you can see, the model leapt into the air in a very confidence inspiring way. I now have swapped out my Jeti Mezon ESC as it started playing up, so hopefully I will be able to do a lot more testing as soon as the weather clears up.
We do a lot of aerotowing at our club and Jared has an FES 1/3 Ka6 he regularly flies, so my model was within normal activity really, certainly quieter and less stressful than aerotowing.
My advice to any glider flier would be to do it, you won't look back, I can't wait to get the next big glider on the bench, just have to save for another setup...
Cheers, Ell.
PS. I know the landing was awful, must have been the pressure
This is actually my second conversion, but the first that will ROG. I love big scalies, but not knowing anyone locally with a tug bigger than 60cc, it's become very frustrating.
The process of converting the ASH was a little stressful to start, cutting a perfectly good fuz like that is always going to make you a bit nervous. BUt now I've done it, I intend to do it again several times. Prolly use the Torcman setup next time so that I can remove the prop and yoke and leave the nose pretty much untouched, although it's £200 a pop, so not a cheap alternative.
The Hacker motor is superb, I've just changed the prop blades to 13x10 so the ROG will benefit from a little more clearance, as you can see, our field 'helped' launch the model. As per Carolynne's advice, I kept a little up elevator in to stop the nose dropping and the prop striking and as you can see, the model leapt into the air in a very confidence inspiring way. I now have swapped out my Jeti Mezon ESC as it started playing up, so hopefully I will be able to do a lot more testing as soon as the weather clears up.
We do a lot of aerotowing at our club and Jared has an FES 1/3 Ka6 he regularly flies, so my model was within normal activity really, certainly quieter and less stressful than aerotowing.
My advice to any glider flier would be to do it, you won't look back, I can't wait to get the next big glider on the bench, just have to save for another setup...
Cheers, Ell.
PS. I know the landing was awful, must have been the pressure