ron evans

Hi Matty, I have a DX7c and DX9 and you're right of course, if all else fails, read the instructions.😊 I've now had a look through and it just seems to be plug & play with no option to calibrate RX voltage. I think I will discharge the pack down to 4.4V and see what is displayed. A bit of a bodge, but it should give an indication of low battery.🤞 Ron

Afternoon all. Back last year a mate picked up a couple of Spektrum AR 410 RX for me at a model show. When I got them home I did a quick check that they worked and put them in a goody box for future use. I was fettling an old glider recently when I thought to use one of the 410 rx as it had telemetry voltage built in, handy for a long day on the slope. With it all set up I was surprised to see the TX was reading 4.6V, although the battery had been charged. I plugged in a V meter into the RX and that read 5.4V. Next I tried the other 410 RX and that displayed the correct voltage. I also used another TX with the same results. The RX is now out of guarantee, but it's no big deal really as the RX otherwise works ok. I just wondered if anyone had a similar experience. Ron

WOOKMAN-PDB I see the tech is available but I use Spektrum rc, so would need a stand alone gizmo. Yes Jon I can see the need for sticking to procedures in different phases of the flight with big heavy warbirds, much like the full size. My models are much simpler and flights can be more unplanned and chaotic, going from high speed to low speed and anywhere in between five or six times a flight, a lot of switching but I'll give it a go. Thank goodness for proportional radio, my first was bang bang SC 😱

At the risk of flogging a dead horse, here are a few of my thoughts. I have a few small e models which are quite quick, but they will fly slowly and land nose high--great fun. To achieve this I have lots of elevator movement, but this makes the model pitch sensitive at speed so I tried some expo. This did work fairly well at speed, but I didn't like it at lower speeds, and definitely not to land. I could have switched it in and out during the flight, but at my age I'm trying to ease the workload on the sticks. What might work is a variable rate linked to the models airspeed, giving full throw at low speeds, gradually reducing as speed increases. Don't think I've ever seen such a gizmo, and probably overkill for my simple models, but perhaps the jet boys use something similar, they also have a wide speed range to deal with. Ron

Enjoyed the games this weekend. Ireland look the team most likely to. Italy gave England a good game Good comeback by Wales but no cigar.

One advantage of learning on the slope, particularly if you have no one to help, is that once in the air you fly a figure of eight pattern. This means for most of the flight you don't have to turn towards yourself and handle the left or right stick panic. Of course to land you usually have to fly towards yourself after the downwind turn, I practiced landing circuits at height first, but still tested the strength of that nylon covered Impala. Gliding does teach you that elevator is the speed control, It's the only speed control you have. I found flying power to be easier after learning on the slope. However you learn, always get tuition unless you have no alternative.

Great effort, just ran out of steam at the end.

Hi Outrunner. I think a giro will try to correct an uncommanded roll, whether induced by turbulence or yaw. In the short time the giro was in the delta it did feel the model was less inclined to enter the yaw / roll wobble, but would not stop it once established. The Y/R only occurres at high AOA, and is easily stopped by a short blip of opposite roll at the right moment.

Only tried a giro once, in my slope delta. This model is about 40 yrs old and had a servo change about 2000 when I noticed the futaba servos were slowing down a bit. A clubmate gave me an orange giro rx, so I thought I'd try it out to see if it would calm the yaw roll couple which all swept wing/ deltas seem to have at high AOA. Well the the giro didn't help much but I had a bit of fun with roll set on high gain which produced a multi point roll with full deflection. After a couple of hours flight time I put the original rx back in. On my next trip to the slope the model was in the air for a couple of minutes when I lost pitch control, and the model went in. Never had a futaba servo fail before, and I'm wondering now if the extra work the servo has to do ( like a fiddlers elbow ) might have led to the failure of this well used servo. Probably not an issue with new servos, but something to consider if your servos are getting on a bit.

Missed the England game, went flying instead, cracking day, well done England.

Yep☹️

Breathless stuff. Looks like a shoulder to the gob is ok now.... just like the old days.

A game too far for us, just not good enough today.

Three lineouts missed, not going to win like this.

This topic has a touch of de'j'a vu about it for me. Back in the last century this was discussed on the other channel, and my thoughts at the time were that when the rudder and elevator hinge line coincided, the deflected rudder would spoil the tailplane producing downforce. and the model would pitch down. Booth my aerobatic gliders at that time had rudders well aft of the tailplane, and did not pitch down with rudder application. I also cited a review of a CAP scale model that did not pitch down with rudder application ( might have been the P R model ). The CAP aeroplane has the fin and rudder well aft of the tailplane and elevator. Meant to put P.M. model.