E-flite Deuces Wild 25e2 ARF - Manual (Page 62)

62 E-flite Deuces Wild Assembly Manual
Flying Your Deuces Wild
With the counter-rotating props the elimination of torque
delivers straight ahead acceleration and smooth flight
characteristics. Plug in your batteries and install the battery
hatches. Now move the throttle trim up until the motors come
to life. This is your flight idle.
Taxi out to the runway and align yourself with the center line.
Leave the flaps up for your first takeoff. They are not really
needed for takeoff at all. Power up and steer the model straight.
As the model approaches takeoff speed, pull back slightly on the
elevator. Once you are airborne, retract the landing gear if you
have installed retracts. Now you can enjoy the flight envelope of
slow to high speed flight and you will find the Deuces Wild fully
capable of just about any aerobatic maneuver you can think of.
Setting up for landing, you will find the Deuces Wild to slow
up very well in the flight pattern. On the upwind leg drop the
landing gear and the flaps. If the model balloons up badly,
you will need more down elevator compensation to correct this.
If the model dives down, you have too much down elevator
compensation and will need to correct this. If you feel like
the model is uncontrollable with too much elevator with the
flaps down, you should retract the flaps and land, make an
adjustment and try again. The model lands very well without
the flaps. Make these adjustments on the elevator in 1/16-inch
increments. The settings in the book are close when the CG
is set as per the manual at around 4 inches. These elevator
compensations will change slightly based on the CG setting of
your model.
You will find this model floats very well and lands very slowly.
It has no real bad habits and is one of the easiest flying models
you will ever fly.
Single engine performance
The model has been designed from the beginning to be a
very gentle flying model that can deliver performance when
requested. If you lose a motor, the model will still fly very well,
but your climb performance will suffer slightly. The best thing
is to not turn into the dead engine, but with the larger tail, we
have made turns using ailerons only into the dead motor along
with touch and go's. We do not recommend you continue flying
if you lose a motor. Set up and land and determine what the
problem is.
We hope you enjoy flying your Deuces Wild ARF as much as
we do.
Happy Landings!