shepeiro

Not a new model but it’s finally finished as intended with some “scale” details. Took it out for a wee beauty pageant amount the daisys She flys beautifully, she was built around a 3 channel electronics from a cheap foamie so has stabilisation built in. Far nicer to fly than the donor aircraft she will truck around the sky sedately but with the added washout (quite a bit) she will dip a wing if you try hard enough so will turn faster.

I have mostly removed the warp and finished the covering. Very pleased with this model it flies beautifully sedately trucks around the sky can land it at my feet fairly easily in very low wind. pictures to follow. the stability is pretty epic (natural and additional digital stability) I lost the elevator horn (pulled out of elevator) on my last flight this morning and it was still just about flyable luckily it stuck with a Decent amount of up trim so I could just stall it back down to earth. It still turned reasonably nicely and stalls straight (possibly the aggressive washout)

Ok good and slightly worrying news I removed the rx/esc from the double sided tape on the fuselage, checked connections and then fired her up. motor worked. tiny puff of smoke. stopped motor instantly. tried again tentatively no more smoke not a sausage. could it have been a tiny bit of material causing a short or am I in for a nasty surprise if I keep trying to use it?

Going to check wires tonight and can also cross check it with another rx to see if it works with that

Would rather motor than esc as it’s built into the rx not that the fault will care

After a fair few flights my 1s motor has started to act up. It’s starts but only ticks over a couple of times befor it stops and does a single beep. I guess a motor fault (perhaps salt corrosion?) but anyone more clued up on these have an idea?

I’m not wed to spektrum. I have about 8 models that use it but as you say Conrad could keep the old one alive for those one thing I hate is how many times I bash my plane with the tx going through doors mostly (fly on beach next to house and often juts carry them both out together tx around my neck) something that could be trayed does interest me. the difference in price for fr compared to spektrum is pretty insane. What’s build quality like

I replied befor seeing all the other replies excuse me while I do some reading

Ha yeah stop stopping me buying stuff I don’t need. you make good points can you get like-on batteries still for these older kits? I am running out of slots in the memory it only has ten.

Also I remember in distant past something about most modern spektrum TX not working with non-spektrum rx is there any truth to that?

I am interested in thermal/slope gliders and have a couple of smal dlg (though find it hard to get to the slopes vs I live next to a fairly wide beach so tend to fly powered more) no interest in flying jets except watching other people and going “woooow” I can program as I’m a technical 3d artist during the day but have to say I have been pretty lazy with the hobby side of programming.

Think I’m all dsmx rather than dsm2 but would need to check

So my trusty cheap second hand eBay special dx6i is starting to lose the odd toggle, so far only the gear toggle which I haven’t needed so far but it’s starting to show its age. Now I’m much more invested in the hobby I feel like I can spend a little more on a tax than the 50bob I spent on that one. not sure where to go next. Want a work horse that gives me at least as much as the dx6i in terms of functionality. I mostly fly micro and small planes but I am started to be interested in a bit of telemetry. Don’t want to go stupidly fancy when I may never use half the features but also don’t want to find I need another one in a short period of time. What would people recommend?

thank you for that explanation. The next stick and tissue model I will try that with as I’m definitely thinking I could get a better finish than I am currently and if it allows the wing to set better in place then it’s worth the extra hassle.