It isn't so much, apparently, that the motors are wearing out, but that it is taking some time for the stability augmentation system to initialize. This morning, immediately after popping in the battery, I set the plane on a level surface and waited. It took about 30 seconds before the control surfaces twitched. I flew it then, and it was fine. So to some extent I now have to treat this plane like the Delta Ray, which requires the same sort of initialization. The Stratos does not have SAFE technology, but seems to require the same sort of handling. At any rate, it probably still has a lot of life left in it. Yesterday evening I tried the Easy Trainer 1280 in fairly high winds and it handled the wind very well, requiring only some down elevator into the wind and a bit of up elevator downwind. Flying crosswind it crabbed into the wind automatically, requiring no rudder correction.
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