I took the Twin Cyclone out once more this week. Under calmer conditions I got it trimmed. It's a glider. By using the motor as little as possible it can really stretch out the battery life.
Something odd happened a few times. At a long distance away it would go full up elevator and start porpoising. A few seconds later everything would return to normal. A flying buddy asked me how I had the fail-safe set up. I don't have fail-safe set up on any of my receivers. I didn't know how so I looked it up and learned two important features of the FlySky FS-i6 radio I never knew.
- You can set fail-safe to move the servos and throttle to any preset you want when radio link is lost. All you have to do is push a button on the receiver when the transmitter sticks are where you want them.
- There is a throttle kill switch on the transmitter. All you have to do is enable it and set the throttle hold to 0%.
I had this radio for 5 years and just learned this? Duh!
The airplane was briefly losing the link to the transmitter and going into fail-safe. The receiver fail-safe was set at the factory with channel 2 to go to zero (full up elevator). I might've had the antenna pointing directly at the airplane. Now I don't have to worry about accidentally bumping the throttle stick when the airplane is on the ground. The factory user manual sucks.
Pre-WW2 Old Timers
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The three 1930-40's pre-war free flight old timers I got from Penn Valley Hobby when they closed. All have been converted to 3 channel RC. Left to right: So-Long, Contest Commercial, Twin Cyclone. All three are awesome gliders.