Page 2 of Philip flying Pike
Perfect for the first time
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7/3 Raindelay..
Philip is probably bored. The only message was a
photoshop picture and the txt:
RAIN :-(
| 6/3
from our testcrew in Istanbul! Hi there! The weather is still windy. But anyhow, we enjoy flying our perfects day by day, more and more. The air is still rough although the wind did slow down a bit today. Hopefully it will die within the next few days. We tried out varying CG-Positions but ended up at 107mm all the time again. I'm already wondering where David Hobby and Jan Kohout will fly their CG's on that plane for being known to be the ones who could manage flying their CG's on the trailing edge. Maybe less turbulent air is manageable with a more neutral CG-Position. With our favourised CG we figured out a first proper setup for all the important phases. You'll find the values in the graphics attached. The values for the flaps are measured on the inward end of the flap, the values for the ailerons on the outward end. So all the best to the rest of the world, your PP-Testcrew: Murat Esibatir, Mustafa V. Koc, Philip Kolb |
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The testcrew in Istanbul
5/3 evening. More pictures
Slow in the landing zone
The flying angle
Mustafa hits the mark (big picture)
Philip launches for Mustafa
5/5 from
Philip
It was a long day of flying, with lovely but stormy weather. So
there was still no possibility to check out the floating abilities
of Pike Perfect. Nevertheless we use the time to get used to the
handling of the model even more. The wind shows up blowing with some
10-12 m/s from the South. Pilots having experienced the wind
direction at Riva airfield, know that besides the windpeed the air
is fairly rough and turbulent with some harsh gusts. Although huge
sink besides heavy thermals were characteristic for that day, the
perfect was astonishingly smooth in flight. It's fun to work that
dynamic air with this plane! There's no disadvantage noticeable to
the usually flown smaller gliders.
With getting more and more used to the rough conditions, we tried to
launched the plane harder and harder. First of all the 1.35mm lines
gave up. By using thicker lines we figured out that we could reduce
the launch flap settings for Pike perfect. Since it puts a lot of
tension in the line even with less flaps set but now launching
faster. We even could note a smooth bending in the wing due to that
tough launches. The spar is built with stiff UMS-Carbon fibres, so
if you can note bending you can be sure that this launch will be a
powerful one. Whilst launching seems to be no difference to other
planes, the zoom is a blast. No pitching or banking moment, just
straight up – Some 2-3mm flaps up make that job an easy one. And
above all, no swampy feeling in the elevator during hooking off with
a lot of speed. The elevator pushrod of the Pike Perfect is
installed different to other planes. When applying elevator up, the
servo is pulling not pushing the rod. Thereby bending of the pushrod
and thereby a swampy elevator is avoided. One only have to get used
to the direct response of the elevator. In one of my launches I
pulled hard which was followed by a recognisable loud, not good
sounding “BRRRRRR”. Don't blame the flutter on the plane or the
servos. It was just my way of servomounting that ripped all of the
four wingservos off. No damage on the plane, just one hour more to
spend in the workshop gluing the servo trays in with proper
epoxyglue. So that was the abrupt end of the day for me. Fortunately
Mustafa and Murat worked on trying to fix Landing settings. More of
that soon......
All the best:
Philip
Various flying pictures
3 x Pike Perfect
Philip launches his Pike Perfect
NEW 3/3 evening
from Philip
Hi guys! We are still busy....
Today we fixed the first basic setup of the model. You will find the
values of the throws which seem to prove comfortable attached (HERE).
Tomorrows the weather forecast is lovely, so we want to go out with
three Perfects for real intense flying and checking of suitable settings
for launch, thermal and cruise. It is lovely to test these things here
in Istanbul while the rest of good old Europe is still frozen. Lots of
Thanks to Mustafa V. Koc and the guys from the SOARIST Club Istanbul for
providing their airfield for early test flights and working hard by
flying, fixing, soldering and catering :-). I'll keep you posted......
Balance
is important
Meassuring for us, the audience...
Philip writing down the essential
Turkish!
2/3-06 evening:
from Philip
O.K. Guys, first day's done!
We had more wind today than expected, but nevertheless we went out to do
the first flights on the Pike perfect.
We spent quite a long time on fixing a suitable CG for that weather and
finally I was happy flying it on 107mm measured behind the Root sections
leading edge.
The weather changed and it began to rain so we stopped after slightly
getting used to the behaviour of the model. We didn't measure launches
and logger altitudes yet, but after this first day of flying I can
definitely say that this pretty thing looks promising. The control is
amazing. Compared to the F3J gliders I've flown before the response of
the aileron is astonishing and the response of the elevator is huge. The
Drela tail-sections seem to work really fine here and all the pre
installed throws needed to be reduced. I never had the feeling of
handling a big model for Pike perfect doesn't show any slow reactions on
control and is definitely not comparable to big Floaters although I hope
that the sinkrate will be comparable to these planes.
Within the next days we try to fly as much as possible as long as the
weather will allow this and will go out to measure some flights as well.
Philip with Pike Superior and Pike Perfect
Philip with Pike Perfect
Philip with Pike Perfect
Pike Perfect landing
Mustafa flying and Philip launching Pike Perfect
Philip with Pike Perfect
Philip Kolb
2/3-06: from
Philip:
I just finished the first model yesterday and put some pictures in the
attachment. Dealing to fix the model was very easy, nothing unexpected,
just perfect work done by samba model. The plane looks really promising
and whilst the weather down here looks quite promising too (we have some
15°C, partly cloudy skies and about 6m/s Wind) the first flights will
take place in a few hours. I surely let you know how it went.
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