I finally had a successful take-off and short flight with the FIK 100 this morning using the baseball field at the local park as the landing field. My initial try broke the propeller since I’ve been using the right stick for rudder control, but on the FIK 100, I have to use the left stick, so when I tried to move the plane to the left, it also made the elevator push the plane down. I then trimmed the plane a bit to the left since I saw it was pulling to the right on takeoff, and it was very floaty at 1/3 throttle. The wing area on this plane really make it a nice glider when the engine is cut. After all the crashes and repairs this plane has been through, I’m so happy to finally see it in the air. One thing I noticed is this plane really wants to loop when I apply throttle. A carbon rod was inserted along the underside of the wing so that it won’t fold during stressful maneuvers.
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