epiper93
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The year was 2011 I bought my first RTF plane. Piper Cub S. loved it. Came with a spektrum Dx5. For what I needed at the time it was a great radio. But my first problem I had with it was when I went to buy my second plane...it could only hold one model at a time. So much like the older gentlemen (and ladies) in the hobby. I would write down trim settings for about a week or so. Then I said "why do I keep doing this." So I went out and bought a Dx6i...great little radio. I loved it. My 6i nonetheless became dated around a year and a half ago. So I went out and bought no other than a Spektrum Dx6e the same exact interface for $50 less than the DX6...why wouldn't you!?! However I soon learned a radio without diversity was less than stellar unless you were flying UMX or park fliers (which honestly, what's the fun in that.) so to fly what I want to fly (.25-.60 size) I realized I had to do something. Everyone raved about these FrSky Teranis transmitters and as you're reading this right now your heart has began to beat a little faster. You're becoming extremely excited because if there are two things the internet loves it's Nikola Tesla, and The FrSky line of radio gear. I'm here to tell you. Boy were they wrong. When I first got it I was so excited I immediately ripped the old spektrum receivers out of my planes and jammed FrSky receivers in them as soon as I could. I thought to myself "this is going to be awesome." Until I went to program a single model. The hoops and bounds to jump through to simply program flaps made me want to vomit. Next came a Delta, again I thought surely this would be easy after all, it didn't have flaps...WRONG AGAIN... everything with a Teranis will take you much longer than it will on a Futaba or a spektrum. If you want to take time to get every aspect of a radio perfectly set up to you. You need to get on amazon right now and order a Teranis. However if you actually enjoy the hobby. And want to fly, not spend the majority of your day setting up flap/elevator mix. Do what I did. Sell your Teranis on eBay for $20 more than you paid for it. And buy a spektrum Dx8. I love it. Literally all the same features are there. Just a lot easier to program. I will argue with anyone about this. OpenTX companion software is a nightmare. The only way to make a Teranis better is to flash custom software to it which the best one I found was no where close to perfect. There's a reason some things shouldn't be open source.