SuiGeneris
New member
Hello everyone. I'm both new and old to the hobby. Old, in that I spent much of my teens and early 20's building and flying a variety of model planes including some RC. Balsa frames, with tissue paper and dope skins (or shrink-wrap plastic, which was just coming into vogue), and analogue radios were the way I was doing things back when I began... I'm also new in that I haven't flown anything in 22 years, unless you count the 2 chuck gliders I've made over the past few weeks as a soft re-entry into the hobby.
Recently, we moved to a small hobby farm, and so I have a bit of space to fly without having to travel to the nearest club field (which is a bit of a haul). As such, I'm interested in getting back into the hobby, but am looking to do so as a casual flyer and builder - e.g. no more 200 hour balsa builds for me, and I doubt that I'll be flying more than once or twice a month (SWIMBO, kids, jobs and other hobbies already keep me pretty busy). This brings up a few questions I am hoping people can answer:
1) What would you recommend as a good starting Tx for someone who ins't planning on having more than a few planes/Rx's, and who doesn't need a lot of bells and whistles. A lot of hobby shops around here sell cheap 6-channel "FlySky" brand transmitters (cheap knockoffs as far as I can tell), but at least on paper (and in the few reviews I've found) they have the range and features I need.
2) Are DMS2 Tx's and Rx's really compatible across brands? That seems too good to be true.
3) The scratch-build "movement" is very attractive to me - you get the joy of building planes without the time needed for balsa kits, plus they're cheap so when I crash (which I expect I'll do regularly), repairs/rebuilds are cheap and fast. What would people recommend as a good starting point for those kinds of planes? I'm torn between the swappable series and the Mighty Mini Tiny Trainer (but am open to other suggestions).
Thanks, and I appreciate any suggestions!
Bryan
Recently, we moved to a small hobby farm, and so I have a bit of space to fly without having to travel to the nearest club field (which is a bit of a haul). As such, I'm interested in getting back into the hobby, but am looking to do so as a casual flyer and builder - e.g. no more 200 hour balsa builds for me, and I doubt that I'll be flying more than once or twice a month (SWIMBO, kids, jobs and other hobbies already keep me pretty busy). This brings up a few questions I am hoping people can answer:
1) What would you recommend as a good starting Tx for someone who ins't planning on having more than a few planes/Rx's, and who doesn't need a lot of bells and whistles. A lot of hobby shops around here sell cheap 6-channel "FlySky" brand transmitters (cheap knockoffs as far as I can tell), but at least on paper (and in the few reviews I've found) they have the range and features I need.
2) Are DMS2 Tx's and Rx's really compatible across brands? That seems too good to be true.
3) The scratch-build "movement" is very attractive to me - you get the joy of building planes without the time needed for balsa kits, plus they're cheap so when I crash (which I expect I'll do regularly), repairs/rebuilds are cheap and fast. What would people recommend as a good starting point for those kinds of planes? I'm torn between the swappable series and the Mighty Mini Tiny Trainer (but am open to other suggestions).
Thanks, and I appreciate any suggestions!
Bryan