Building Level

• User manual: building instructions (Almost Ready to Fly kit)
• User manual: building instructions (Ready to Fly)
• Photos from user manual

Have you ever wondered what a very well designed ARF plane should be like?  Well, like this one.

The EasyStar User Manual is of the best there is. Clear, multilingual, many illustrations, and tips.  Just Perfect.

Building the plane takes very little time, a matter of one to two hours, tops.  All the parts fit together perfectly. This is Multiplex at its best, one could say.  The wings are very well-engineered.  They can be fit, just by clicking one into the other. To remove them, just pull slightly; so convenient!

The cockpit is the same way, just push it, and it will click and be locked. To remove it, just pull it.

It is recommend not to use Epoxy in the manual but this is what I have used for all my Multiplex Elapor Planes for years and it has always worked great for me, so make your own choice on this one.

Tips:

• Don't forget to add some tape on the bottom of the fuselage, for protection during landings
• For the rudder and elevator, either detach them and re-connect them using hinges, or be sure to flex them them many times before connecting the pushrods.  This will ease their movements and prevent a heavy on the servos.
• Add some cyano on the screws that close part 25 (linkage connector) (Blue thread-locker works as well, and is not as permanent)
• When you glue the two halves of the fuselage together, don't use too much glue.  Make sure you put it on specific areas, which you will be able to take away.  If you need to open it in the future, you will be glad you did.
• Some people don't glue the fuselage at all.  Then they use a different way to hold it together. (like tape) This way, if needed, they can open the fuselage easily.
• Add some velcro tape, where the 2 wings connect.  With time, they won't "click" as well and the velcro will ensure that they don't disconnect during a flight.

From drj153(ezone): "I STRONGLY suggest you tell people to use Silastic to glue in the motor! It holds very well but is infinitely easier to remove the motor should it fail - as Loopy's did yesterday! If it had been mine, held in with epoxy, I would still be trying to get it out without demolishing the plane! The Silastic took 10 seconds to remove! "
 

This is a first plane trainer. All movements are slow, especially the rudder inputs and especially at low speeds. Still, it behaves extremely well, with absolutely no bad behaviors spotted.  Stalls are straight, and easy to recover from. Turns are smooth, without any surprises. The plane does not know what tip stalling is.  It can do loops and simple maneuvers that any 2 axis trainer can. Slow and fast speeds are both easy.  It also handles windy conditions well.  The stock version flies beautifully.

On full throttle, the plane tends to climb too much, only to be stopped by a stall. If you release the throttle, it glides perfectly so you can either compensate manually while climbing, or by programming some mixing between the throttle and the elevator.
 

• Replacing the battery pack is a piece of cake.  Just pull the canopy, replace the pack, replace the canopy, and go.
• For Q1 2005, the EasyStar won first place as the plane to purchase as a 1st plane.  See complete article here.
   

• Multiplex EasyStar gets the 1st place, at "which plane to recommend as a 1st plane"
• http://www.easystar.detract-online.de/
• Bungymania review of the EasyStar
• Ezone thread

• EasyStar Fan Web site

• Unofficial EasyStar Fan Web site

• DRJ153's Homepage

• Lavawing's Homepage

• Ken Myers's Homepage

• Splash99's Homepage

• Christoph Becker's Homepage (German)

• EasyStar FMS plane

• EasyStar Photo Session, after winning the position of 1st Recommended plane to start with - Q1 2005
• Some here