Yea Cap, I cut back a little and it dropped like a rock lol. I've done that in the past and at that sink rate I usually lose it, but this time I remebered and put some thrrottle back to it, and it just made it to the runway. You can see the take off, I went from halfway down the runway with the tail up, all the way to the other end before I pulled up, and I just barley had enough to get off the ground. You cann see my first turn almost found me in the trees, and from then on I was ok, but it was tricky.
Baron, With the new technology called Specktrum, we can go as far as the eye can see and still have range. We can probably go up to at least a mile with no trouble at all.
the first time i flew my mustang, i did that. i'm used to my sport models, where i can idle them all the way down final. turn final with the stang, chop throttle, and it's a big "YIKES!" as she instantly drops. got the throttle back in, a teeeny(i think about 10 degrees) bit of flaps, and maintained between 1/4 and 1/2 throttle till i crossed the "fence".
i did notice the rather wide first turn too.
the spektrum, i think uses 2.4GHZ technology. a lot of the guys at our club are going to that, as there's no more waiting for someone to clear your frequency.
even with the old 72(i think) mhz radios, they had a "line of sight" range of approx. 3 miles. i don't know what the range is with the 2.4ghz, but with either one, it's kind of irrelevent, since they can both take the plane out of sight.
one rather crappy day, one of our pilots was fllying a world models t-34(they're sport models). we use em for racing, formation flying, and a few other stupid things, as they're easy to fix. and hard to break. anyway, there was no one flying at the airport across the street, so this guy decides to see if he can get his model into the clouds. he got it in them. we were surprised, and falling over laughing. we called the AWOS, and the clouds were being called out at 2,000 ft.
