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+1 on the Spirit or Spirit pro.. It's a great flying FBL and has all the self leveling and Rescue (including 'acro rescue') features of far more expensive controller. It comes in a swanky alloy case too unlike units costing twice as much that i could mention that come in plastic cases! The...

Good stuff Neil, The replacement servo arrived over the weekend (at my work) so tomorrow I'll test it and get it sent to you. I'm doing my 'North Sea Tiger' bit Tuesday to Friday but should be back on dry land for the weekend, so hopefully in time to hear the maiden flight report! Good luck...

My experience in this hobby is that lower cost doesn't always mean poor quality and high price tag on it's own isn't guarantee of good quality. Some of the helis in my signature (600 size and up) fly on $30 Kbar FBL controllers and $9 Lemon-Rx satellites. So yes, I trust some cheap equipment in...

I can get a DSMX receiver for $25 and if i want stabilisation (not all do) an excellent 6-axis flight stabilised for another $27 Over $300 for a Neo with the necessary software update isnt of any interest to me. That's the attraction of the Horus, it's completely wide open to working with any...

Well let's hope that if they don't make the pricing 'competitive'... TBH I still expect the price to be a 'no contest'. Vcontrol is of no interest at all for me. Paying $200-300 for every receiver would make it a total non-starter (I fly fixed wing too) and much as I like Mikado FBL controllers...

Personally I'd say more 'inspired by Jeti' than designed to compete with it head on. I say this purely because they are at very different price points, or at least i assume they will be because no price is yet announced for the Horus. I did hear that it would be getting a new name before release...

At the risk of confusing the issue... why didn't the DX6i have enough channels? Sorry, i cant help much with Open Tx or the 9XR.. i did try a Taranis for a while but found the software too much like hard work. I guess the good news is FBL helis are much easier to set up in the Tx than flybar...

Where abouts in Scotland?.. I'm in Aberdeen.

Real men don't read manuals:rolleyes:

You are right. The metal sleeve is CA'ed to the carbon rod and the whole lot moves inside the plastic guide. - - - Updated - - - This is the extract from the Trex 600 manual, I'm sure there will be a similar note in the 500 manual:

Might you need to swap the aileron and pitch servos (left and right cyclic) where they plug into the AR7200?

+1 on previous post. I'd be careful taking every comment you see in build threads on face value. While I'm sure the hardware supplied with the Bixler is far from 'gold standard' I'm sure it will do the job. Just take care on installing clevises not to break the pins off by being ham-fisted. As...

This was a while ago on an quite early version of the firmware that apparently has quite 'flaky' USB support in windows, it worked on some PC's not on others. The story was that the next firmware would fix it as it had native Windows USB support. I could get it working on my wife's laptop so it...

I've had very mixed results with open source software. The investment in time to figure it out always seemed to outweigh the cost saving on the product. Support is by definition reliant on guys doing it 'for fun' and one day they might decide it's not fun anymore. Plus of course it tends to be...

On my multi I experienced similar burst that made it difficult to maintain steady altitude. That turned out to be the ESC's throttle range needed calibrating to my Tx... so that's something to check.

Yes, that's it exactly. On some FBL controllers it's hard to find a spare connection for the extra plug to connect to, in that case a Y lead of some type is necessary. To be honest the way you have it would probably be fine 99% of the time, but it's just that rare occasion when the servos try to...

Hi there Volante, i'm from the east coast of England also, but 'up-north' (Middlesbrough).. now even further north in Aberdeen. 48 is certainly not too late to start heli flying. i've flown fixed wing RC almost all my life but started helis a little older than you are now and while I'll never...

Your heli so your call but if you really want to use a switch use one rated for bursts of 10A or more. The constant amps is very low but in short spikes large heli servos can pull a high current and if the wiring/switch isnt up to it voltage drops and you get brown-outs... This is a well...

+1 on Neil's advice... Don't use a switch, standard RC receiver switches aren't man enough, and anyway it's just a potential failure point that you dont need. How are you powering the system?... HV BEC., battery direct, or battery and voltage regulator? If it's a battery just use the Rx battery...

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