SIGRC19EPARFB-Manual
Place your fingertips within the balance range on both sides of
the airplane and carefully lift it off the table. No part of the model
should be touching anything except your fingertips! If the KADET
SENIORITA will sit on your fingertips in a level attitude, then it is
properly balanced and ready to fly.
If the airplane sits on your fingertips in a nose down attitude, then
it is nose heavy. You will have to add weight to the rear of the air-
plane to get it to balance. NOTE: Before adding additional weight
to the model, try simply moving the battery pack to a further aft
location. The battery pack is relatively heavy and therefore makes
a good balancing tool. If you can’t get your model balanced simply
by re-locating the battery pack, then you will have to purchase
lead weights from your hobby dealer and glue them into the tail
end of the fuselage.
If the airplane sits on your fingertips with the tail down, it is tail
heavy. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FLY IT! A tail heavy model is very
dangerous and will most likely crash!! Weight will have to be
added to the nose of the model to bring it into balance. The
weights can be glued to the front of the firewall; or inside the cowl-
ing. There are also “spinner weights” available for tail heavy mod-
els. Wherever you put the balancing weight, make sure it cannot
come loose in flight! Because the KADET SENIORITA has so
much wing area, adding balancing weight will have little effect on
its flying ability.
Double check the alignment and movement of all the controls one
more time! Adjust all of your pushrod linkages so that the control
surfaces are in their neutral position when the transmitter sticks
and trim levers are centered. Make sure the control surfaces
move in the proper direction when you move the sticks. You’d be
amazed to know how many models have been destroyed on take-
off with one of the controls reversed. Don’t let it happen to you!
In fact, it’s a good idea to get into the habit of checking for proper
control response every time you get ready to fly.
The maximum distance that a control surface moves when you
move the transmitter stick to full deflection is called the "control
throw" or "control travel". This determines how responsive the air-
plane will be to your control inputs.
We suggest the following control travel for beginning R/C pilots.
RECOMMENDED CONTROL SURFACE TRAVEL
AILERONS: 3/4" UP, 3/4" DOWN
ELEVATOR: 5/8" UP, 5/8" DOWN
RUDDER: 1" LEFT, 1" RIGHT
Adjust your pushrod linkages and/or transmitter EPA (End Point
Adjustment) settings as necessary to provide the recommended
amount of control surface travel. NOTE: The rudder measurement
is taken from the bottom of the rudder, at its widest point.
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The KADET SENIORITA is designed to give you the best possible
chance to succeed in learning to fly R/C. However, learning to fly
model airplanes is not a skill you can learn overnight. It’s very
similar to learning to fly a real airplane in that you should go
through a learning phase with an instructor before you try to pilot
the airplane yourself. A lot of things can go wrong with these ma-
chines, and if you are not prepared to deal with them instantly,
you will loose your brand new airplane in a crash. To practically
eliminate any chance that your first flight will end in disaster, we
strongly recommend that you seek the assistance of a competent
R/C pilot to help you with your first flights.
An instructor serves two purposes. First, he will take your model
up for its first test flight to make sure it is performing properly be-
fore you try to fly it. When a brand new R/C model takes off for
the first time, there is no way of knowing which way it is going to
go. Some models will try to climb steeply, while others may want
to go down. Some will try to turn left, others right. Some models
will be doing both at the same time! It doesn’t mean that there is
anything wrong with the model, but these minor differences must
be “trimmed out” in order for the model to fly “hands-off” straight
and level. An experienced pilot can instantly correct for out of trim
conditions before the model crashes into the ground. An inexpe-
rienced beginner has almost no chance of saving an out of trim
model!
The second reason for an instructor is to have someone there who
can correct any mistakes you make when you take over the con-
trols for the first time. Let the instructor get the model airborne
and flying straight and level at a safe attitude (“several mistakes
high” as the old saying goes) before he turns the transmitter over
to you. You will quickly find out that it is very easy to over control
an R/C model and to get disoriented - EVERYONE DOES IT AT
FIRST! If you get out of control on your first flight, quickly hand
the transmitter back to your instructor so he can rescue the air-
plane. He will get it leveled off and then let you try it again. With-
out an instructor, you would not get a second chance!
FLYING
CONTROL SURFACE TRAVEL