Hi Team,
Full marks to everybody @ FT for providing inspiration & a fantastic service.
Despite being an old bugger, I'm a newbie to the sport.
I'm learning a lot by trial and error. For example after my first dozen or so prangs I started limiting the travel of my control surfaces, adding differential travel to ailerons, playing with different rates of expo, and now I'm starting to try switchable mixes of most of these things.
The thing is, even though I have been guessing values, these have made a huge difference to my ability to keep my planes in the air, and I think a segment on limits & mixing could benefit a heap of your viewers.
You probably don't need to go as far as how to program specific radios - there's plenty of guides online for that. However some discussion on what sort of limits should be set for various styles of aircraft, for beginners, intermediate, & experienced pilots, for each of elevators, ailerons and rudder (percentages or even mm of surface edge travel) would be great.
Suggestions on amount of differential travel would also be good, and maybe even things like setting up some elevator mix with use of flaps etc. You could put short clips showing the flying effect of these things in between the theory advice.
Now we've got programmable radios, it would be good for many of us to learn how to make the most of them.
Keep up the good work.
Full marks to everybody @ FT for providing inspiration & a fantastic service.
Despite being an old bugger, I'm a newbie to the sport.
I'm learning a lot by trial and error. For example after my first dozen or so prangs I started limiting the travel of my control surfaces, adding differential travel to ailerons, playing with different rates of expo, and now I'm starting to try switchable mixes of most of these things.
The thing is, even though I have been guessing values, these have made a huge difference to my ability to keep my planes in the air, and I think a segment on limits & mixing could benefit a heap of your viewers.
You probably don't need to go as far as how to program specific radios - there's plenty of guides online for that. However some discussion on what sort of limits should be set for various styles of aircraft, for beginners, intermediate, & experienced pilots, for each of elevators, ailerons and rudder (percentages or even mm of surface edge travel) would be great.
Suggestions on amount of differential travel would also be good, and maybe even things like setting up some elevator mix with use of flaps etc. You could put short clips showing the flying effect of these things in between the theory advice.
Now we've got programmable radios, it would be good for many of us to learn how to make the most of them.
Keep up the good work.