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Good morning all, I just recently bought a used UMX Aero Commander that needed extensive repairs. I swapped the fuse, tail, and all electronics into a new one using reference pictures. Bound to my transmitter and everything worked perfectly. On the maiden (for me at least) it flew great until I...

Cheers everyone! Jake here from Toronto, Canada. Been a fan of FT for over a year and have been watching a ton of their videos - recently took the plunge in RC planes and purchased their FT Tutor starter kit. I'm quite new to the hobby but I plan to spend a good amount of time this year...

I am an adult that is looking for a place to learn to fly. I live in the Scranton area of Pennsylvania.

my setup is simple, a spracing f3 (I found it in an old quad under the basement), 4 x BLHeli_S, and cleanflight for flashing firmware. All the sensor and receiver work fine, but cleanflight or blhelisuite can only recognize escs as well as control motors that connect to port 1 and port 3, the...

my setup is simple, a spracing f3 (I found it in an old quad under the basement), 4 x BLHeli_S, and cleanflight for flashing firmware. All the sensor and receiver work fine, but cleanflight or blhelisuite can only recognize escs as well as control motors that connect to port 1 and port 3, the...

Hi all, Building my first rc glider a hiesboch Gino and want to do the rc conversion, I have bought the recommended receiver and serves. The r6ds and go2+ respectively. Not sure what battery setup I need for this, also looking for any recommendations for a cheap transmitter as well. Many...

Hi all, Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong place, I am new here and this is my 1st post. I am looking to get into the hobby but I am a little unsure on the electronics. I am aiming to build the FT Tiny Trainer then moving up to the simple Cub. I have the plans ready on the Foam...

Hi! I was out of the hobby for like 24 years, but I'm a youtube junkie and routinely fall down aircraft related YT holes and wound up looking up a local club and getting back into it after spending two weeks watching videos and re-acquainting myself with how it's done. Anyway hi! I'm getting...

Hey all, finally built my first foamie, but out in castaic CA it's regularly 90-100+ in the summer, so I'm worried about the integrity of my hot glue joints if I try to fly in this kind of weather. I guess my question is what would be the upper limit for hot weather, and would cutting...

Hey folks! I've recently (a few days ago, maybe a week) gotten into flying FPV, and oh boy is it nice. I've put together a short video with some of my experiences with getting into FPV, and I'm also talking about some tips for newbies. The plane is based on an FT Explorer, but with 20cm...

I bought power pack A and the mini corsair build a few weeks back. Just finished the whole project. Immediately running into a similar problem that I saw someone else hit with Power Pack C on another thread. They posted this youtube video which shows my exact problem. The build is all straight...

Hi everyone, I am new to this hobby. Flying some DJI quadcopters for work got me into it (and flite test videos) - I want to eventually build my own surveying drone (my endgoal would be a VTOL with all the bells and whistles!) but I thought I should start from scratch! So I just finished...

I have been wanting to fly rc since I was a teenager and I am just getting started now. I have put together a Tiny Trainer from the plans and I got the power pack and a Spektrum DX6 about a month ago. I took it out for the first time last week. My wife threw it down into the ground twice -...

Hi! Let me start off by introducing myself to this community. I LOVE flite test and i’ve been a fan since I was 9, which was back in 2013. After 5 long years, I finally decided to lay off of RTF planes and go build my own, since I keep finding myself clueless on how to repair them. On Tuesday, I...

So my friend and I flew his Horizon Hobby sport cub S late last summer, and he nose dived, and wrecked it. The foam in the front came off, and the tail got completely ripped off. So today I finally came around to fix it, I fixed the tail, only to find i had another problem, the throttle wouldnt...

Has the question ever been asked about the reason for most if not all of the wing builds using foam board utilize the method of creasing and sharp angle bending the foam over the spar as opposed to the use of wing ribs? Other than the obvious answer of simplicity and ease of build, I am at a...

So I recently got a gremlin that was built by FT; I took it out of the box and plugged the battery in. The battery is fully charged and is a lumenier 2 cell, 400 mAh, and 7.4 volt. I was able to get my Spektrum DXe to bind to the receiver, the receiver held a solid orange light. The problem is...

HI all, I am completely new to RC and the Forums and just want to get some help setting things up. I have always wanted to fly multi rotors since I first saw it on Youtube. I got myself a little LaTrax Alias from my hobby shop just to try out quads, and I loved it. After watching many Flite Test...

Greetings!, When I was in high school, I built my first plane, a Goldberg Eagle 2. My family was not into this hobby but were supportive. I was very passionate about that plane and getting it of the ground. Ultimately, I only flew the plane twice because I was too scared to crash after creating...

hello everyone, I am new to this forums. I have been into this hobby after getting an small nano 3 channel helicopter and flying and crashing it until end of it's life :p . Later on I have moved on to larger sized heli :cool: I have got bored with 3 channel flying pretty soon and got a toy grade...