Spikey Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 What exactly does that mean when applied to receivers? (Apologies for yet another noobie question!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Racer Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Usually have a range of about 500m (normal full range recievers do at least 1km), so best used for smaller electric planes, say of about 1200mm span or less that you be able to fly in a large (as in a number of seperate football fields/rugby fields) playing field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Honestly- it doesn't mean much. Just that the manafacturer is not claiming it to be full range. I had a "park flier" orange rx that lost signal at a fairly close distance whilst the Spektrum "park flier" rx I've used has been flown at quite a distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruprect Spode Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 My Planet T5 R6M receiver is listed as park flyer/indoor use only and I regularly fly a 1500mm aircraft until it gets to that "there's a delay in throttle response! No, it's just the time it takes for the sound to get here." distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spikey Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Thank you gentlemen. "Park flyer use" will do me nicely then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippyUK Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I use a variety of Spektrum, OrangeRX and Chinese copies and have found that the flying field has had far more effect on the signal quality than the brand and parkfly or not. Cheap Chinese copies listed as 'park flyer' would work fine and nearly out of sight on the dunes, slope or beach but the same plane would glitch and brown-out when flown inland and nearer radio masts (and peoples possiblyWIFI routers). I've also had problems with the Spektrum RX with satalite reciever that came with my DX6i in the playing fields over the housing estate which has 3 mobile masts within sight of the field. Happily never lost a plane to these problems but have landed with a few flashing lights indicating brown-outs. I note that the Orange RX R710 originally stated it was 'Full Range' but now it has dropped the term although it claims "Great for medium/small planes & helis, right up to large scale models." which implies full range. Is there a UK comparable body to the MAAA in Australia and have they not approved these devices therefore they are 'parkfly'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Now receivers are so small and light why is there a market for short range stuff? I can understand if we talking about featherweight indoor models but don't see the point in the limitation on many of the parkflyers that won't mind the extra couple of grams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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