MicroMax Pocket F3F 1.15m

I have bought several models from Hyperflight over the years and always had great service from Neil.
This is my second MicroMax and it has to be one of favourite models. It flies great in anything from almost zero wind to well over 25knts and probably more - I've never tried anything stronger. It handles ballast well - I use 1 or 2 lead pieces of 90g each which fit under the wing and that allows the model to cope with most conditions.
It can be flown slowly for a leisurely cruise around the sky or when ballasted it turns into a mini rocket ship.
So much fun and versatility. 5 stars at least.

Very happy with my MicroMax purchases. Everything was shipped fast and packaged very very well making it to the USA in perfect shape. The models arrived just a few days after ordering! Thank you Hyperflight. (Neil)

The MicroMax, I was amazed by few light DS and hard-core DS videos on YouTube initially. I'm kind of new starter to slope soaring, I decided to enter the playground from this pocket f3f.
Only 3 working days from order to HongKong arrival, thumb up for Neil again! Finishing quality is superb, it's absolutely worth for the money even it's a 1.15m wingspan. The stiffness of wing is beyond my acknowledgement. Believe it will handle light or heavy condition of slope and a little thermal flying.
It's a nicelooking and convenient model to keep and fly. Great toy great fun.

Overall very impressed with the flying qualities. It flies great especially with ballast and copes fine in over 40 mph. I recently took it down to the cliffs with waves crashing against the rocks and sending spray up into the air. It’s fast, very agile, very responsive. The wing is especially stiff and responsive with an excellent roll rate, and the model is very grippy with excellent energy retention in turns.You can tell it’s a small model due to its lack of momentum, but overall the flying qualities really are very ‘F3F’ with a very nice vice free feel to how it handles. I really like flying it ballasted in challenging conditions because it’s small size makes it easy to walk with and hand launch if you’re on your own.

There were some build issues with the RTF version, I’d recommend others save money and install yourself. The aileron servos were installed out of centre and one aileron servo hadn’t been tested for good centring and this had to be replaced. It was challenging as the servos were glued to the wing skin. The back of the horns also scraped against the wing skin adding to centring issues.

Overall I’m happy now but initially didn’t find it very good value due to the build issues. But it’s a lot of fun to fly now.

The glider has an amazing quality, very stiff, and the details are amazing.
Hyperflight has great service as well, highly recommend.

Absolut klasse Flieger für kleine Hänge und wenig Wind. Geht mit Ballast aber auch bei ordentlich Wind.
Vor allem bei hyperflight im hübschen Design und nicht so langweilig wie bei uns. Versand ging absolut problemlos und war in 5 Tagen inklusive Wochenende bei mir.

Lovely little flyer in unique quality.
Fast shipping as ever.
Thank you very much.

Super Service, super Qualität, Vorfertigung und Passgenauigkeit

First review of this lovely model, so here goes. It's so tiny and everything needs to be handled with care during assembly. A five year old's fingers would suit better than a fully grown mans. Or tweezers. Very fiddly to build and time consuming thinking things through. In fact my wife said "if that plane came almost ready built, why have you spent hour upon hour in the workshop on it?" Enough said.... Instead of the 1 mm wire supplied for the aileron push-rods, I decided to use the same system here as for the the vee-tail push-rods, and found some 0.81 mm music wire and PTFE tubing. I had second thoughts after gluing the tube between the servo aperture through the spar web and out the back to align with the aileron horn, but was too late. In hindsight it was the right decision - very precise and zero control surface slop. There is so little room at the front end, that when all is installed, there is barely 1 mm clearance between the elevator servo output arms and the slip on nose section. I used a 600 mAh 1S Li-Po that fitted snugly but the MPX Rx 5 Light had to sit behind the wing L/E in the fuselage void. All a bit tight especially as I was at a loss to understand how to wire up the aileron servos to the 4-pin connector, so I did it traditionally passing each servo lead through the small aperture back under the wing and into the Rx, fixed as far forward as space allows. Needed 29 gms lead up front to balance at 60 mm root chord and AUW is 266 gms. Don't skimp on servos, just stick with what Neil recommends.

Flying. Maiden flight this evening. From Colley Hill, south west of London. Not quite the Rhone Alps, but nice anyway. Part of the Surrey Hills ANOB. Wind was perfect out of the south west at 10 Kts and very smooth. I had set the control surface throws exactly as recommended by Pierre Rondell [see link to his piece above], to the mm. Flew straight off as if on rails, couple of clicks of down trim and all perfect. Thanks Pierre. Quite some plane. It just goes where you point it and fast, but because it's small and light, not at all scary like a full size F3F screaming around the sky. Just lovey and so pretty - I waited till Neil got in some in stock with pink honeycomb design. The 2 mm camber change to thermal setting really does slow it down, but it didn't need quite the amount of elevator / flap compensation, so I've now dialed most of that out. Simply stunning performance. As it says on the tin, Micro plane, Maximum fun.

It cost a shed load of money, but I love it already. Drove all the way home with a happy smile on my face. GM.