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ignore me, I evidently can't read. 😞

I see that there is a "Family Partner" membership, which I'm not sure there was previously - I think it was always "Family Senior" in the past. it's also rather cheaper (£29) than the Family Senior last year (£40). does anyone know if this means that there needs to be a full Senior member in each family membership and then any additional adult would be a Family Partner, or whether all Family adults can be Family Partners?

I obviously buck the trend as I lower both the average age & the tone. 😉

2.4GHz is full of signal from communications equipment too, not least WiFi.

many thanks gents, much appreciated. 👍 I was thrown slightly by Johns Tee & Lee replying with different answers. 😄 I have a personal account with Lloyds so I shall investigate them first - when I took over as Treasurer with the current bank (HSBC) we had months of grief getting me authorised on the account. 😠

the bank that my club uses, which was previously free, has recently started charging us £5/month for the privilege, which may not sound much for most organisations, but for us it's a couple of members' subs per year going on bank charges. 😞 banks seem to have rather cut back on fee-free accounts for clubs/non-profits over the last few years - does anyone have any suggestions of who still does them? ideally one where everything can be done online - including paying in luddite members' cheques. 😉 many thanks

HK do a flattish 4S 2650mAh which fits the Riot battery bay quite nicely & is a popular combination in my club along with the 11x55.5 prop that is now supplied with the model.

that replacement motor has 25% higher Kv (1070 vs 850) than the original so it's going to draw more current all else being equal (ie if you're using the same prop). the alternative would be to prop it down a bit - eg 11x6 on 3S (but check it with a power meter). if you're looking for more performance, I would highly recommend 4S - I'm running mine on the original motor & ESC (40A) with the supplied* 11x5.5 prop & it will climb vertically out of sight. * the model was supplied with a 12x6 when it first came out which is fine for 3S, but I imagine Century had a lot of blown motors/ESCs when people tried it on 4S.

I have a couple of Aoyue soldering stations: Aoyue 936A - 60W - https://www.pcb-soldering.co.uk/aoyue-936a-60w-soldering-station - £64 Aoyue 936 - 35W - https://www.pcb-soldering.co.uk/aoyue-936-soldering-station - £42 they're temperature-controlled & have a wide range of swappable tips available. they do me nicely for quadcopter building & the 60W one does XT60's/XT90's with ease; the 35W one with slightly less ease. Weller or Hakko would be nice, but they're several times the price & I'm not sure what extra you get apart from the name.

I agree - the tailplane is effectively at -ve AoA due to downwash.

I suspect it's a convenient excuse for failure of the non-electronic speed controller - ie the pilot. to be fair, failure of an ESC/motor/prop causing one corner of your drone to lose lift is pretty catastrophic - somewhat akin to one wing of a plane falling off !

something like this would do you: https://www.banggood.com/Eachine-TX801-5_8G-72CH-0_01mW-5mW-25mW-50mW-100mW-200mW-400mW-600mW-Switched-AV-VTX-FPV-Transmitter-p-1147691.html?cur_warehouse=CN&rmmds=buy this video explains how to wire up a camera & VTx without a flight controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46y8fhmvCyQ

I'm sure a keen modeller should have no trouble knocking up a guillotine in their shed. ?

haven't you got some building to be doing? I'm sure your team can lend you some sandpaper if you need some. ?

SBUS to 3x PWM adapter: you can connect multiple daisy-chained/Y-leaded, but you do need a widget to set the channel mappings: ie Rx channel x to decoder servo output y if you were so inclined you could probably make a split power/signal wiring harness, but if you needed that you would probably have the space for a few extra connectors. ?