Frank Skilbeck

I'm not going to dispute that 3/32 isn't adequate, but pressure drop in the fuel tubing is proportional to ID, length and flow rate, the flow through the carb fuel passages is limited by the available differential pressure, so a smaller diameter fuel will have a higher pressure drop from the tank to the carb reducing the available pressure drop at the carb.

You can get spinners with inbuilt cooling ducts, you just need to put in exit holes to allow the warm air out.

No, the feed to the motor is effectively a pulled supply, any readings will be meaningless, ask you clubmates I'm sure one will have a wattmeter or even a dc clamp meter.

Putting a small proportion on it and running it at full throttle, checking the rpm and battery volts will give you an indication of the motor kv (kv being the no load rpm per volt), you can then use this to get an idea of what proportion size you'd need. Or just buy a known motor and then you can select the appropriate prop etc Based on an electric glider I've got of a similar size and weight I think a 4s lipo would be better.

Matty sorry to read of your tribulations, hope you get back on track soon.

A couple of suggestions 3) can you change the aileron differential when you droop the ailerons, so you get increased up travel and reduced down travel to reduce the adverse yaw, and/or activate coupled aileron-rudder when ailerons are drooped. Remember to test it at 3 mistakes high! Let us know how you get on.

Weston also do low oil fuel, look under their fuel for radials section. Or do whatI do and add neat methanol to higher oil content fuel.

Yep, normal service has been resumed, thanks

OK, thanks I'll just hold tight for a while.

Basil, a detailed description in this video

Our club website, hosted by the BMFA isn't working, anybody else having issues, or is it just us?

Sarik Hobbies are also stocking it.

So who's going to do a scale model

Yep, I do it all the time. Also blend some low oil fuel by bunging a bit of methanol in, using the eyeball that looks about right proportions.

As Phil says, plus a couple of 5gram servos like these https://www.4-max.co.uk/servo-4max-4M-056DHVMG-009.html

Have you looked at using https://www.nongnu.org/dataexplorer/ to analyse the data, I've used with the Multiplex logger and the Altis GPS logger.. Easy to use and it says Futaba telemetry supported.

Mike, what's reasonably priced, I bought a Toolkit M6 from 4 Max as a small 6s field charger and it has an IR function.

Another alternative would be the Pheonix S 1600 we use these for a single model competition and they fly very well and are easy to control. Or a bit left field what about a Discus Launch Glider, e.g. Dreamflite Alula, launch 2/3 circuits, land and repeat as many times as you like. No motor/prop, highly unlikely to damage anything or itself (unless you chop the tail with a powered model, but thats another post maybe!), would give you lots of practise.

I can't think of any that are Futaba compatible, but the ones that come with their own tx are usually fine, but they are for very light winds only. If you don't mind building then one of these can be bought with a Futaba compatible rx.

This video popped up in another feed, shows a hard landing ripping off the undercarriage. https://imgur.com/H3rKMPu

I've flown fixed wing anti few times fpv, including my T21 on aerotow, I'd start with a cheap wing to get used to it first rather than prang a nice scale model. Note you must have a spotter with when flying FPV, and apart from being a legality really useful to tell you where the field is, if your system doesn't have GPS info displayed in the goggles.

It's not too bad, being BnF the manual has all the transmitter settings, so there's no real setup.

Just a thought, a few years back we had a DSMx Dx6 which wouldn't link to a DSM2 Dx6i so the Dx6i could be used as a buddy box. An online update of the Tx cured the problem, Spektrum had already addressed the issue with a firmware update, could this be the case with the Nx8, might be worth doing a Tx update.

OK, I'd found another suggestion that it wouldn't bind until the GPS module had found enough satellites, so I left it in the middle of the garden for 5 mins and it then bound straight away. Just got to do the other calibration rigmarole now, but it's too bloomin cold 😁

And don't forget we need a video of the engine running.