Draco for 2020?

[Brian_Gladden]

My Marketplace is showing the 2024 Draco ported to 2020. I wonder how much they are paying Mike Patey?

 

[StormILM]

I got the model, it is very nice and cheap.

 

[Tom Clayton]

That's worth a stick! I just wish the real thing was still around...

 

[Bushpounder]

That's worth a stick! I just wish the real thing was still around...

The new one, Draco X, is supposed to be certified around 2028. I'll bet that date will slide up or down. He's going with 1000HP this time.

Don BP

 

[Tom Clayton]

All the decals on this one have the "X" logo, but I don't think it has the 1k HP modeled. That said...

I bought it - I like it! It has good ground handling, but getting to sit still without brakes is next to impossible. Even just barely into the beta range, it's still pulling forward. Pull back just a little more into beta, and you're going back. I haven't found that neutral point yet. In the air, it climbs like it was shot out of a howitzer! It may not be a daily driver, but it sure will be fun to take into the Grand Canyon for some "dumb ways to die" type flying!

Oh, and unlike some other add-ons that I've tested, the blue Level button on the autopilot actually works on this one.

 

[heywooood]

The new one, Draco X, is supposed to be certified around 2028. I'll bet that date will slide up or down. He's going with 1000HP this time.

Don BP

it would be ugly if something like that suffered a rapid unscheduled prop departure...

 

[StormILM]

One tip on landings, fly it close to stall, full flaps, 3 point touchdown and hold full back stick and it will stay straight as an arrow on the short roll-out to stop even without beta range on the throttle.

 

[Tom Clayton]

Yep - that's how I came in on my one and only landing so far.

 

[Brytskiva]

A very nice Machine ....