How to build the Hobbyzone 1.1m AeroScout - The ideal trainer plane!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มี.ค. 2024
- The Hobbyzone AeroScout is one of the best trainers on the market and this video will show you how to put it together. Hint, it is a super easy assembly.
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Been watching your vids on planes lately, pulled the trigger on the carbon cub and a nx8 transmitter, can't wait for the wind to die down so I can take it on its first flight!
Thank you! The Carbon Cub and NX8 will be an awesome setup. I have flown my nephew's Carbon Cub with my NX8 and really like the plane. It offers some good challenges for a beginner and will be ideal if you want to get into higher performance taildraggers. You will get good at using the rudder to counter prop torque on the ground, which is where a lot of pilots fail when they get into warbirds. For setting up the Carbon Cub with the NX8, be sure to use 100% rates in SAFE mode. I suggest 30% expo on the ailerons and elevator. For intermediate SAFE mode, I drop the rates to 80% aileron and elevator with 30% expo and expert mode I use 70%. To do this, I assign SAFE and the rates to the same switch. So going into beginner mode automatically sets the rates to full, intermediate to a lower rate, and then low rates for the more experienced mode. It avoids having to use 2 switches and you will want full rates on beginner mode as SAFE already cuts the rates by about half. So if you are at low rates in beginner mode and go into SAFE, the actual rate is about half of your low rate. That means you have almost no control surface movement.
@BRGT350 thank you for the tips!! Really looking forward to getting into flying!!
You picked a good one to get started with! If possible, try to find some short grass to take off and land from. The drag from the grass makes it easier to handle the prop torque on take-off. Go slow and easy on the power application and steer with the rudder. You will need right rudder input to counter the torque. Hold up elevator for about the first 10-15 feet of movement on the ground to keep the tail planted and then gently let off the elevator to build speed. The plane should lift off on its own and then gently apply up elevator to climb out. At 50% throttle, the plane will fly level. Climb to about 75-100 feet high and power back to half. Practice making an oval racetrack in the sky. Reduce power to about 30% to begin to land. Slowly reduce power to about 20% as you get closer to the ground. Once you get to about 10 feet off the ground, power back to idle. Slight up pressure on the elevator once the mains touch will force the rear of the plane down and avoid tipping forward. I would just work on taking off and making the same direction racetrack for a complete battery. Second battery try a figure 8 so you get used to turning both directions. Always take off and land into the wind. Lastly, don't try flying if the winds are over 5mph to get started with. Once you get more experience, try for less than 8mph. Evenings before sunset are the best for calm conditions.
Is this better than the Apprentice STS for someone with some flight experience?
Kind of tough to answer as both are outstanding trainers. The Apprentice, I feel, is better in terms of the size being easier to see, but requires more expensive batteries and the prop placement means you have a chance of breaking one more than the AeroScout. The AeroScout flies on cheaper batteries, easier to transport and store since it is smaller, the high mounted pusher prop is pretty much impossible to break, and the AeroScout is cheaper to buy. I learned on the Apprentice and teaching others to fly on the AeroScout. Both are outstanding planes. If you have already mastered the Apprentice, then I would skip the AeroScout as it is meant to be a first trainer, much like the Apprentice. The next step after the Apprentice or AeroScout would be the Turbo Timber Evolution and then you can decide for your 3rd plane where you want to go. I picked up the AeroScout since I sold my Apprentice for the Timber years ago and wanted something to help teach new pilots to fly and have something for myself to get in extra practice with low stress. I will sometimes take the AeroScout and a bunch of 2200 3S batteries and do nothing but touch and goes for an entire evening. I just focus on that over and over and over again. It builds confidence very quickly. If I still had my Apprentice, I would do the same with that. I do like the size of the AeroScout better as I can transport it with the wings installed and it is easy to just toss in the car and go. I also like how it flies on a 2200 3S pack, which I have a lot of.