Wookman

Pictures will generate some interest.

That is what I said.

The wheels would just be going twice as fast as normal at take off.

Cheers Mike.

The first lesson is to not allow any part of you near a live prop. I have never seen that end well regardless of motor size.

Do you flash and activate 54 and then (say for an X8R) flash the later 57 upgrade or can I flash straight to 57 and activate it?

Navy Helicopter pilots, breed apart.

Whilst the actual flying is quite impressive the decision to try and do it is rather less so!

NO, just NO.

This is no problem. Just take care not to provide an analogue servo with 9 milisecond update rate from the rx.

Araldite is epoxy.

Totally agree. Ebay do not force anybody to pay more than they want to.

Preamble: I recently acquired via BMFA classifieds a rather nice Taranis X9D+. The exact spec I wanted with the hall gimbals and an eneloop battery. I paid the asking price which I thought was reasonable. I then set about acquiring some receivers to go with it. I have bough a few through BMFA at what I thought was a fair price. I have also bought a few though ebay. Most of what I have bid on I have lost as the price has soared. This week two X8R receivers came up. One on EBay, one on BMFA. The BMFA one was offered at what I thought was a fair £20 post paid. I managed to contact the vendor, no easy task when the messenger system was not working on BMFA classifieds, it is amazing what you can find out off tinterweb. The deal was done and it is in the post. The EBay auction for the other one finished last night and the final price was £31 + a not unreasonable £3.50 for p and p. £34.50 in total. A brand new X8R from the UK FrSky dealer is £34.54. There is postage to add. I don't have an issue with using second hand gear, after all pretty much all the aeroplanes I fly are second hand or even sixth or seventh hand. I don't have an issue with people charging what they want to, or people paying what they want to. But surely the point of buying second hand is to save money. After all few of us have infinately deep pockets or infinately long arms.

Stability should be easy enough. FrSky do the S6R and S8R. If you want spekky compatibility maybe a stabilised Lemonrx job will do it. As for rth I would forget it. It is hundreds of times more likely to crash than fly away no matter who is flying it. If your flying is not up to it you need more reasoning/practice not more stabilisation. I know what you mean about about the Warthog though, kind of beautifully ugly.

I wasn't working yesterday afternoon.

Must be a reeds thing. I flew with a guy years ago who flew mode 2 with his elevator upside down. There is a chap in France I fly with from time to time who flys rudder and elevator on the right stick and ailerons and crow brakes on the left. Left handed mode 1, even though he is right handed.

Saw an A10 Worthog display at Exeter airport many years ago. The announcer introduced the Warthog and said it would arrive from the right at witch point I saw it fly over the hedge at the far end of the runway and disappear into the dip in the runway. It reappeared at the beginning of the display line at about 20 ft. Up to this point it had made no noise what so ever. The noise started as the thing went past. I remember thinking that if you where ever on the wrong end of a Warthog you would never know anything about it.

Not sure I would aspire to fly anything that had gained the nickname of "Widowmaker".

I suppose you get away with it with an AR of 2.45:1!

He must have ended up on a charge. I can't imagine that maneuver is even listed in the manual.

Hi Greg. Have a look at your PMs (little envelope at the top of the page).

Hi Steve. Nice touch to sort the pin outs for the receiver plugs! Receivers have now had their firmware updated and have been bound to the X9D. Thanks again and a perfect example of how well we can work as a community and help each other out.

A big thank you to you Steve for the package of leads I now have.

Thank you Steve.

Bar keepers friend might clean up the fuz.