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Posted by Josip Vrandecic -Mes on 15/06/2014 18:17:37: @Hello FilmBuff , this is Rossi 15 ABC (25,000-30,000 rpm).Thanks you for your interest.... Rgds Jo Serious F1C stuff there Jo. Do you still fly them?

Love these pics Jo. Is that a Rossi 15 motor?

Keep the faith. 11.00pm on Saturday we can Dare to Dream

I too enjoy Rugby - but let's not go too overboard on the "fair play" thing. Eye gouging, coaches getting a player to bite on a blood capsule to simulate injury, spear tackles, stud raking... But back to OP - many model flyers will be experiencing the emotional roller coaster of watching England at the World Cup. And as someone who enjoys both model flying and sport - flying a model plane will NEVER stir up the same passions as being at Wembley watching Arsenal beat Manchester United, England beating Scotland or going mental at Edgbaston watching England beat Australia in The Ashes.

Never understood my so many modellers slag off The World Cup or other major sporting events. In 2012, many on the forum were bitching about the Olympics! Why the apparent polarity of interests? The matches are being played at 5pm; 9pm and 11pm UK time. So unless you're retired (or a public sector worker) or have LED night lights on your plane you'll be able to fly and watch the football.

Guys - this is interesting stuff - but why don't you use a dedicated OpenTx forum? I think this is the third thread dedicated to Taranis. Just wondering...

Inspired by this topic and the recent one on re-arranging equations - I did a little digging on sample sizes: I made the assumption that 25,000 model flyers use Li-Po batteries. If we want a 4% confidence interval - that is "plus or minus 4%"; If we want a 95% confidence level - that is you can be 95% sure that your results are within your confidence interval - then We need a sample size of 378 - probably much less than most of us imagine! With the current sample size of 199 - and assuming 25,000 Li-Po users - the calculated confidence interval is 6.92 or "plus or minus 6.92%". So currently we can be 95% confident that 76 to 90% of Li-Po users have had no problems.   Edited By FilmBuff on 30/05/2014 12:35:21

Use a pass phrase. Think of a line of your favourite song, then use the first letter of each word. So... "Sup up your beer and collect your fags there's a row going on down near Slough" becomes the password: suybacyftargodns Very easy for you to remember!

Eight years of use and never had any problems at all. No fires, no smoke, no puffing. So far.....

Here's my 2p worth. It is very easy to create a simple model, but anything more advanced is certainly not intuitive. Expo - easy enough. Mixes - easily mixed CAR, but then I found that rudder did not work independently - only as part of the mix when operating the aileron stick. None of this is complex - it just needs someone to produce a good "how to guide". Open TX for Dummies. BTW - I hope we are being eavesdropped by the FBI or GCHQ. Taranis is also a very advanced Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle...   Edited By Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator on 16/05/2014 13:37:22

@BEB I have been using the software for a few weeks. I'm after the Tranny Programming sim - not the Tranny use sim.

How Chris - can you point me to it?

Posted by Martin Harris on 13/05/2014 13:37:37: Thought that was general knowledge...? I must be stupid then

Posted by The Wright Stuff on 13/05/2014 12:52:52: Thanks BEB, a very useful overview. My only query is whether you would recommend this approach to a beginner in model flying. I wonder whether I would have had the discipline to keep things simple, and explore and understand my models behaviour incrementally, rather than leaping straight into mixing everything with everything else, just because I could! No!

Okay - Austrian born... Apparently for use in torpedoes to avoid jamming of their guidance systems by U Boats. Amazing what you pick up on the Discovery Channel... Edited By FilmBuff on 13/05/2014 12:54:21

I don't get the anti French vibe. I had a little Citroen Saxo 1.1 Desire from new in 2001 - I bought it when a change of job lost me my company car and "just needed something to get me to the station and back". That job only lasted 12 months and I found myself commuting heavily again with a.... Saxo. Well, 152,000 miles later I finally said farewell to it! It still had the original clutch, had one replacement exhaust and the usual service stuff like pads and discs. Never broke down once. In 2004 we also bought a Renault Megane - the "Shaking that Ass" style. The thing that clinched it was the aircraft throttle style hand brake - honest! It was full of gadgets and we did have some teething trouble with the key-less door sensors. That racked up 80,000 miles before being written off on the M1 three years ago. It had the best climate control I have ever come across - including several luxury makes. Both suited my flying activities. A fully assembled Twin Star could be squeezed into the Saxo with the seats down - and my 3M gliders fitted with ease. I have stayed with the small car vibe with a Mini Cooper S. Even this can take a Twin Star or Wot4 fully assembled. Edited By FilmBuff on 13/05/2014 11:51:05

Agreed. Getting a list of other users posts is very basic functionality and would be a great help.

Posted by Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator on 06/05/2014 22:01:02: Doh - not a good month for me! Three daft mistakes in one article! A typo, then a "getting me words muddled moment" and finally one of those where you change your mind at the last second about something your going to say, but only change the second half of the sentence! Grrr! But the basic point's Ok - they are details really - honestly! What was the editor doing?

I thought the piece on flying in Colombia has the potential for getting you into all sorts of trouble. At customs: "Ah, that white powder is actually cyano filler - honest - for my model aeroplanes" At the soaring site: A simple request after a suspected brown-out of "I need to check out some new gear" gets you driven into some very dodgy areas of Bogota to meet a man called Carlos from the FBI's Most Wanted website. Can you add any more? Edited By FilmBuff on 07/05/2014 11:12:54

Until recently I had always been a glider flyer at heart. Then I discovered electric powered gliders. The charms of self launching and no long trek to my local slope was very alluring. An urge to be able to fly at more local sites saw me move to things like a Multiplex Dog Fighter - via a Formosa. It was with these planes that I discovered the joy of throttle - via the ESC. What an amazing control! I was surprised how little time is spent at full speed. Trying to fly aerobatics as slow as possible is far more challenging than blasting round at top speed. Although a downwind low pass with the Dog Fighter does keep you on your toes.... But one thing was missing. So far it was all hand launch and belly landings - which does expand the number of sites I can use - some being very rough. Enter stage right a WOT 4 Foam E. Wheels are so much fun! ARTFs have notoriously flimsy undercarriage - and this serves to focus your landings. I thought my first approach was sound until the undercarriage plate neatly parted company with the fuselage. So far - that's the only mishap apart from a few gentle nose-overs. Yesterday evening I put four packs through the WOT simply taking off and immediately going into a landing approach and touch down. That's around 40 landings and "Touch and Goes", punctuated by a few vertical climbs to do a few deadsticks. All made possible by ESCs, Undercarriages and Foam.

Posted by Bandit on 27/03/2014 14:03:06: The UK Ministry of Defence awarded a $31m contract to Prox Dynamics through Marlborough Communications for the delivery of 160 units of Black Hornets for its armed forces. That works out at £193 750 each!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What this does is highlight how toys can be expensive when you spending other people's money!! I'm no apologist for defence spending excesses - in fact I'm currently working as a consultant on some large procurement projects. But, the $31M contract will probably a full through life support contract. This will cover acquisition, support, training etc

Posted by FilmBuff on 22/03/2014 21:11:04: Thanks for the offer Paul - I've got some old servo leads I can use. Thanks for confirming it's just a loop on the two end pins. Sorted and bound!

Thanks for the offer Paul - I've got some old servo leads I can use. Thanks for confirming it's just a loop on the two end pins.

Posted by Paul Marsh on 22/03/2014 20:50:31: The ripmax SHFSS 2.4 rx, uses a bind plug, like Spektrum to bind. There will be a bind plug in the pack, put it into the relevant channel, power up the rx and turn the tx on, It will be bound. The rx is not like the futaba one, Not using a switch saves on componant costs Thanks Paul - I must admit I have not seen a bind plug in the box of bits. I will check though. Is the bind plug simply a short between the two pins? I think they are labelled "D Set". If so I can make one up

Posted by PatMc on 22/03/2014 20:00:27: What numbers are on the Rx ? Nothing I can see.