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Best advice I can give is find someone that can fly and is willing to be with you. Phoenix is great and helps BUT you dont get any nerves as a crash doesnt matter, practice on the pheonix with some level of wind especialy with little gusts but try to learn initially in as calm a weather as possible. Also when learning keep the rates down on the flight surfaces, in the air except for take off and landing keep height.. height when learning is your biggest friend gives you plenty of time to recover any problem.

Its definately a motor and prop issue, I have the same motor as mine on the way along with a new prop.

Easier just to find a better cameraman, I can do it just fine but not when Im flying too LOL

I agree with that, I have many minutes of video of just grey sky and shaky unusable footage of planes.

A mate of mine built himself a Wot Next and a seperate Mono Float and asked me to test fly it. Well it sat up on the step almost perfectly but the tip floats tend to dig into water rather than float on it but take off went without too much trouble. The flight was a different matter, it is desperately underpowered and maybe a little tail heavy, but it flew. Unfortunately towards end of flight I got in a situation where the boat house got in the way and I was unable to gain sufficient height to clear it as the end of video shows... real pity my mate filming missed the beautiful touch and go then subsequent arse clenching few seconds as I tried to clear the clubhouse. As you can hear everyone, including Andy the owner found it amusing.

Here is the video of the test flight.

I have this quick test flight of my Wot Next Ignore the commentary by my mate who appears to think hes funny LOL

Took 3 planes out for test flights, 1 flew great, 1 wouldnt take off the water and the other flew marginally and landed on a roof Doh!

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Well thats different LOL. I can't build and expect it to fly right, luckily mine was built by a friend of mine. Have you tried to get hold of some we use here... http://www.depron.co.uk/prices.html the price for 6mm including shipping is about

@sean the motor in mine is a little 2208 10t brushless (1800kv) with a 7x4 prop, and the performance is way more than you need.. i can hold it in my right hand vertically and with full power I simply let go and it tears skyward. The pink tailed one is a towerpro bell type brushless rated at 2200kv with an unknown prop (around 7inch diameter). Without floats its still not getting anywhere near the performance of mine. @Tamiya Cowboy - Only using one servo on ailerons so flaps is out of the question but they should flys so well without them. They can fly very slowly without tip stalling, in a few mph wind you can near enough getting them hovering.. daft really. I am working on another float plane that I am planning on fitting flaperons to, just to see what they are like.

On wheels it flies beautifully, just fancied something different, I wont quite give up on it just yet will try the spray rails and see if that does anything.

This is a foamie built by a friend of mine Chris, from a design by another friend that you can find on rcgroups. Its called the Wot Next and can be built from one sheet of depron. These are great little models and I took mine out for its maiden flight today and it went perfectly, video will be available shortly. This is the only in focus photo that someone took of it whilst airborne. Now whilst at all these maiden flights (or attempted maiden flights in the case of SE5a) Andy (another mate) asked me to retest out his Wot Next he built with a mono float. He took a fair bit of stick for the pink tail, he tried out a paint theory which evidently failed - he says it was purple! Pprevious flights have had differing results, most end up with some form of drama and this was no different. Taking off it appeared it was seriously lacking in performance and it flew most of time at full throttle and was still a little marginal at that. A change was made to float placement which improved c of g and retested with a little improvement to the extent we had a lovely little touch and go but then struggled to get some height especially as the lakes boathouse was fast getting close... full up elevator, full throttle but the roof was about 1foot to tall. I have to say the landing on the roof was perfect and it lodged against a ridge tile!

Yeh I know chap, Have to be honest and not sure why I put that LOL. Esc isnt in a balloon.. its up out of the way and should be ok. Well to todays results... It floats which is a plus, water rudder works great. But flying off water at moment isnt an option, it certainly needs some spray rails on inside edge of floats as its drawing a lot of water through the prop. Not just that though the front of floats are being pushed under water, not sure what issue is completely but pretty sure there is a little too much down thrust of motor (the c of g is fine) I did get some air time with it after a hand launch (which was pretty entertaining) and the flight charactoristics with floats on isnt great. There is some video which I have to take off the video camera. Im pretty tempted to just go back to wheels, and fly it from a local field... that is unless someone else fancies buying it.

THe receiver and esc are ballooned with grease at opening. Should be fine.

Our flying lake is perfect for the test, there is a shallow area where i can test it before proper trials. The club also has a tug for retrieval purposes should it be needed (and its been used many times. LOL) Just found this... the maiden flight on a very breezy day, landing was dodgy but it wouldnt roll out on the rough grass here.

LOL, it wont fit in bath, wings tend to get in way hehe, first test in water will be as it either taxi's or sinks.

I bought this model a while ago and had many enjoyable flights but seeing as Im a member of Wet Wings Model Flying Club (a flying club in North West that fly from 2 lakes) I figured it would be interesting to make it work off water. I found a site that sold floats custom made to your requirements, then covered them with lightweight glasscloth and mounted them to the plane. I plan on test flying it off one of the lakes thursday and if all good will tidy up the undercarriage.. no point beforehand if I need to change things. Sorry bout poor photo, this is the only space I have for storing my planes, my Coota is alongside it LOL. Video will be taken, and will post it here as soon as I can.

The glue we use for building and repairing foamies, including depron is UHU Por. (not usual UHU it will melt foam) and as always test on a spare piece.

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