Douglas
Member
I just ordered a Conscendo 1.5. I am reading through the manual and I come to this:
SAFE® Select Technology, Optional Flight Envelope Protection
• Once bound, the receiver will retain its bind settings for that transmitter until you re-bind.
• If the receiver loses transmitter communication, the failsafe will activate. Failsafe moves the throttle channel to low throttle. Pitch and roll channels move to actively level the aircraft in flight.
• If problems occur, refer to the troubleshooting guide or if needed, contact the appropriate Horizon Product Support office.
The BNF Basic version of this airplane includes SAFE Select technology, enabling you to choose the level of flight protection. SAFE mode includes angle limits and automatic self leveling. AS3X mode provides the pilot with a direct response to the control sticks. SAFE Select is enabled or disabled during the bind process.
With SAFE Select disabled the aircraft is always in AS3X mode.
The two sentences in bold confuse me. But I went to Horizon Hobby’s website and read up on both. Still “direct response to the control sticks” makes no sense to me. If I understand AS3X correctly, it’s just a behind-the-scenes stabilizing system that makes the plane fly the way you expect it to fly by doing all sorts of non-stop microadjustments to compensate for wind or whatever, which might otherwise make the plane do funny things you aren’t expecting it to do. For a beginner like me, it’d probably be better if they didn’t even tell me about it because it’s in the plane, it’s turned on, and there’s nothing I need to do. Do I have that right? I can just forget about AS3X?
Okay so let’s move onto this “SAFE Select” thing. On my Carbon Cub S+, I think SAFE Select referred to the beginner, intermediate, and advanced flight modes. I understand those three modes on my Carbon Cub S+ and what they do. But my Conscendo also has this SAFE Select thing, but the manual doesn’t say anything about beginner, intermediate, and advanced flight modes. In my Conscendo manual, it says SAFE Select “includes angle limits and automatic self leveling.” Yeah, that’s what happens in beginner and intermediate modes on my Carbon Cub S+, but Conscendo doesn’t have those three modes, so what exactly does it have? Does Safe Select on my Conscendo correspond to beginner or advanced modes on my Carbon Cub S+? Beats me, I’m confused.
Since I am a beginner, and since SAFE sounds safe, I’ll probably always have it turned on. But my Conscendo manual says I can choose to assign it to a switch so that I can turn it on and off. Well options are nice, and maybe I’ll prefer to turn it off at some point when I understand what the hell it does, but I’m going to assign it to a switch and I plan to always have that switch turned on.
But what exactly does it do, and how is that different from the beginner, intermediate, and advanced SAFE Select modes on my Carbon Cub S+?
SAFE® Select Technology, Optional Flight Envelope Protection
• Once bound, the receiver will retain its bind settings for that transmitter until you re-bind.
• If the receiver loses transmitter communication, the failsafe will activate. Failsafe moves the throttle channel to low throttle. Pitch and roll channels move to actively level the aircraft in flight.
• If problems occur, refer to the troubleshooting guide or if needed, contact the appropriate Horizon Product Support office.
The BNF Basic version of this airplane includes SAFE Select technology, enabling you to choose the level of flight protection. SAFE mode includes angle limits and automatic self leveling. AS3X mode provides the pilot with a direct response to the control sticks. SAFE Select is enabled or disabled during the bind process.
With SAFE Select disabled the aircraft is always in AS3X mode.
The two sentences in bold confuse me. But I went to Horizon Hobby’s website and read up on both. Still “direct response to the control sticks” makes no sense to me. If I understand AS3X correctly, it’s just a behind-the-scenes stabilizing system that makes the plane fly the way you expect it to fly by doing all sorts of non-stop microadjustments to compensate for wind or whatever, which might otherwise make the plane do funny things you aren’t expecting it to do. For a beginner like me, it’d probably be better if they didn’t even tell me about it because it’s in the plane, it’s turned on, and there’s nothing I need to do. Do I have that right? I can just forget about AS3X?
Okay so let’s move onto this “SAFE Select” thing. On my Carbon Cub S+, I think SAFE Select referred to the beginner, intermediate, and advanced flight modes. I understand those three modes on my Carbon Cub S+ and what they do. But my Conscendo also has this SAFE Select thing, but the manual doesn’t say anything about beginner, intermediate, and advanced flight modes. In my Conscendo manual, it says SAFE Select “includes angle limits and automatic self leveling.” Yeah, that’s what happens in beginner and intermediate modes on my Carbon Cub S+, but Conscendo doesn’t have those three modes, so what exactly does it have? Does Safe Select on my Conscendo correspond to beginner or advanced modes on my Carbon Cub S+? Beats me, I’m confused.
Since I am a beginner, and since SAFE sounds safe, I’ll probably always have it turned on. But my Conscendo manual says I can choose to assign it to a switch so that I can turn it on and off. Well options are nice, and maybe I’ll prefer to turn it off at some point when I understand what the hell it does, but I’m going to assign it to a switch and I plan to always have that switch turned on.
But what exactly does it do, and how is that different from the beginner, intermediate, and advanced SAFE Select modes on my Carbon Cub S+?
