This morning, after carting the DC-3 around in the car for two days, I finally had the opportunity to get the Dak into the air again with an immaculate morning; clear blue skies and absolutely still.
I'd decided that it needed flaps for take-off and perhaps then, once up to speed, retracting flaps and flying clean would be OK. As it turned out, I left the flaps on for the whole flight as it was flying quite happily with them deployed, and the additional lift transformed the Dak into a lovely easy flyer.
The Dynam DC-3 doesn't actually have flaps, but using dualaileron mix and plugging the aileron servos in separately you get flaps automatically configured, although I needed a bit of messing around with reversing to get everything working as it should.
I'm still a little concerned that it needs flaps and elevator trim to keep flying, so I might adjust the centre of gravity for the next flight and see how it goes; I think I'm at the front limit of what's suggested when it seems like I should be at the back.
At the moment the Dak simply plummets when you cut power, which makes it a nerve-wracking proposition if the battery runs low...
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