You'll probably find that due to lack of weight, and excess power, it takes off fine with barely perceptible lift of the tail before takeoff, and it has no tendency to ground loop even if you jam the throttle forward hard.įirst, thanks heaps for your input, guys! Ground looping (a sudden spin around of the plane while it is still on the ground), if it is ever going to happen, would be brought on by a too rapid application of throttle at the very start of takeoff.Ī heavy plane will have the tail come up well before it gets to flying speed, so yanking it off too soon will result in a departure stall.īut, as noted above, most of that will be of minimal to no consequence for a plane such as yours.
During this, as with any plane, you will need a bit of right rudder to keep it tracking straight.
Hold until takeoff speed is achieved, and then pull back slightly to climb out. The classic takeoff technique is to smoothly, and relatively slowly, apply power, and allow the tail to come up off the ground. Add to it that most models are overpowered, and lighter, than what is called for if doing exact scale, and peculiarities of taildraggers are pretty much eliminated. But most general purpose "scale" ARFs have been modified to reduce/eliminate any really bad characteristics. Yes, there are ones that are difficult - primarily heavy, exact scaled models of very short coupled planes. Actually, you won't experience anything much different in flying a modern ARF tail dragger as opposed to something with nose gear.
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