aw censu proset ta l'F-16 keep it up ;p
--Johann MIcallef

Hi Vince, I am very sorry to hear that your F-16 did a dead stick landing yesterday on your maiden flight.
--Mario Micallef

Hi Vince. Great job on this F-16. Was very sorry to hear about your dead stick landing on maiden. Hope to see it back in the sky soon.
--Jonathan Cassar

Prosit Vince for your successful maiden flight last week end. Keep it up and many happy landings for the future.
Mario Micallef

Thanks for all your comments.
The last test flight was good enough; the takeoff was good and the climb was very steady and scale, in the air the F-16 is rock solid. At the trimming level it needed a lot of uptrim to keep level flight, but this was with undercarriage down (lot of drag under the C.G point). It gives the impression that is nose heavy.
There were two landing attempts, one with overshoot it was getting in too fast, and the other landed safely. Re the C.G I think is still nose heavy and this is prominent on landing. When the airspeed is reduced for landing, it start dropping the nose and is difficult to keep the nose up on low speed and the elevator authority finish. So with nose heavy there is a limit how much the airspeed can be reduced on landing.
For the next flight, I moved the C.G another 5mm backward by removing 60grams of lead from the nose.
Waiting for good straight wind and see what happens in the next test flight.

Regards
Vince Zammit

--Vince Zammit

Very Happy to read your much informative account of your first jet flights, keep it up and keep our sky roaring with your F-16 please.

Mario Micallef
--Mario Micallef