[NSRCA-discussion] Futaba 2.4 FASST

[Lance Van Nostrand]

Unorthodox (but I expect that from you Jason) but effective.  Thanks,
--Lance

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JShulman" <jshulman at cfl.rr.com>
To: "JShulman" <jshulman at cfl.rr.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Futaba 2.4 FASST


>
> Well, I got out the 2.4 and put it in my beater trainer... and "beat it 
> up".
> Of course, it was anti-climatic as it didn't give me anything even close 
> to
> a problem.  I didn't get to do antenna position testing (too much fun
> flying), but on this
> day, the RX was stuck in the foam with the antenna side facing up. One
> antenna was kind of vertical (had to curve it forward) and the other was
> moved horizontal, towards the back, next to my throttle servo and on-off
> switch.
>
> The first flight was short. I arrived to the field about noon and took out
> my fuselage so I could install the Rx. Having been flying my 14 in my
> trainer (and always getting weird looks cause of it) I had to remember 
> which
> plugs where to what. 5 minutes later, the trainer was programmed and ready
> to go on the 2.4. I did a quick range test on the ground, about 100 paces
> and it was solid so I fueled, started it and took-off... no issues. But
> after 2 minutes the motor died. Hmmmmm... then I remembered, I forgot to
> replace the carb with the new one I just bought, oops. 5 minutes later 
> again
> and it was purring like a kitten. So take-off again, and point the nose up
> (about 20 degrees, its under-powered) and start climbing for the clouds.
> Well the clouds were really up there, so after 10 minutes of climbing to
> them, and seeing that my 54" plane was now a speck in the sky, I flew 
> around
> for a little bit. Went from one end of the field to the other, all the way
> up there. Now at our field, we have a big cell phone tower right in front 
> of
> us about a mile away. Having flown on both the left and right of it didn't
> produce any interference at that altitude. My friend Ryan, who was 
> watching
> all this, said I was somewhere between 1500-2000 ft. I'll take his word 
> for
> it as he
> flies some full-scale and looking down from that altitude gives him a
> different perspective. After my neck couldn't stand it anymore, I dove the
> plane down (I did throttle back) and about 4 minutes later I had it back 
> on
> the ground.
>
> Now this plane is one that I bought literally to go and beat up with the
> understanding that at any given moment it will crash. Usually 
> intentionally,
> but as it's also my test plane for radio equipment, other things can 
> happen.
> So Ryan fueled it up and preceded to have some fun with it. Full power
> touch-n-goes, wing-tip skids and the occasional "oops" prop balancing
> touch-n-go.
>
> So the third flight was my turn to abuse it, after a new prop was put on 
> it.
> High power touch-n-goes (some hit-n-goes to shorten and rebalance the 
> prop),
> wing-tip hits and full power,
> full pull loops and turns. Others wanted to see the range of the
> system. I rocketed up to that
> speck again. I landed, fueled
> and went back up. This time there was a Spektrum flying at the same time, 
> no
> problem. Someone else said "I've got 5 other Spektrums mind if I turn them
> on"... I said go get them.
>
> So he runs back to his trailer, grabs all his radios and starts turning
> them on while he's walking up to me. He gets to me and says, that's 6 
> total
> Spektrums on (and I'm a speck again) and he's really impressed. Of course
> I'm getting bored up in the clouds so I bring it back down. On the way 
> down
> he has another idea... line the radio's on the edge of the runway and let
> me do my high speed demolition flying. He puts his Spektrums along the 
> edge
> of the run way and I come screaming by and do one of my multiple
> bounce-n-goes and it's rock solid. I come back the other way and same
> result, shorter prop but solid link. By this time, we are
> all impressed with the system.
>
> So that's 2 spread spectrum systems working at the same time, with no
> issues. The future is bright.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
> www.jasonshulman.com
> www.shulmanaviation.com
> www.composite-arf.com
>
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