New Warbird Pilot.... Help Wanted....

[shakin]

In The Process Of Finishing H9 Corsair W/ A Saito 100. Any Setup Advise And Flying (landing) Pointers Will Be Most Apreciated.

[airega1]

The H9 Corsair is a sweet flying ship, the saito 100 runs best with an APC 14x8. Make sure the Saito is running reliable and fairly broken in. Use the recommended throws in the manual, don't yank the plane off the runway, wait until the tail is up, then feed some elevator. Make some landings at around 100ft of more just to see how the plane responds to a stall. You should also shoot some approaches keeping your speed up. You shouldn't have much of a problem with this bird.

[shakin]

Thanks, good info

[crashdummy6]

I had a hard time learning to fly my corsair. It is a 40 size. I had a tendency to pull up too hard, too fast and she would just roll over on me. Now that I am a little easier on the sticks, it is oh so easy to fly. Smooth as warm butter. I can only assume a larger corsair will fly just as smooth. I like wheel landings as opposed to a 3 pointer.
Good luck and happy flying.

[The Blue Max]

The biggest mistake a new warbird pilot makes is trying to take off and land like they are flying their trusty old trainer and can horse it off of the runway on takeoff and slowing down too much when they flair for landing! Keep your airspeed up and you will be fine. And also remember that if you have flaps that on warbirds they were designed to increase the angle of descent on landing with out gaining any extra airspeed, they were not intended to slow down the aircraft. Even with flaps if you get too slow on landing you will end up stalling and spinning in.

Keep some power on during the entire landing approach, don't chop the throttle and try to glide in for a landing. Trim your plane out to where with approximately 1/4 throttle and flaps and gear down your Corsair is descending very slowly towards the end of the runway and let it fly itself down, once you are only about a foot off of the ground chop power and flair out (pull back slowly allowing the speed to bleed off, if you pull up too fast you will just balloon up to four or five feet, stall, and cartwheel accross the field!). If you practice this landing technique and get your throttle and elevator trim set properly you can grease those landings perfectly every time, even in a crosswind!