The attraction is primarily for those who fly at contests or in areas of crowded frequencies. You see if you go to a moderately sized contest you will be forced to share a frequency pin with one or even more of your 72 MHZ brethren. If one of them screws up and flips on their TX ( assuming there is no TX impound) You may likely lose your aircraft.
The last contest of the season for me is a prefect example. I am just getting my legs in TD and F3J having only flown RC for maybe 4 years max. I flew at every major contest for the last two years. At the last big tournament some guy shows up with "my" frequency and we are both forced to impound our TX's for the entire weekend checking with the impound manager and the other pilot for the frequency pin every time I wanted to tweak my plane, fly a round or even check the battery life on my TX (ok I could do that with the Stylus without a signal but the impound manager would fill his/her pants) So not only do I have to consider that at this contest there were several northwest contenders in TD but I have to contend with the potential of a shoot down if the conflict system fails. I distinctly remember the background stress this added to the contest. I would have been glad to simply be able to "turn on and go" For that I would be happy to fart around with technically painful solutions. Unfortunately, I have to buy planes for the WC and the extra 1400 for two 2.4 systems is just not in the budget. I also could benefit from 2.4 as I fly at relatively long distances and my private field which is a monster hay field is right on the edge of the frequency range of another small R/C flight field close by. People show up, see no one else at their field and power on all the time.... the thought crossed my mind today when I had a split second glitch on my flaps..... Food for thought - these are the main considerations for me. Others might be attracted to the feature rich options that this bandwidth offers and several new idiot proof solutions in the new TX's that stop you from using the wrong model memory with the wrong plane etc. All good reasons to get the solution working and lets face it. R/C Soaring pilots are almost certainly always itching to do the impossible. When someone says "you can't install 2.4 in a carbon fuse" you know they are going to fire up the "collective hive" (my appologies to Startrek) and come up with a solution. We are the high end geeks of the R/C community after all (said with distinction I might add) David Webb On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Joe Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've been using my trusty Stylus with Glider Card for almost as long as I've > been serious about the sport. It has been essentially trouble free, has no > problems with installation and has far more functionality than I could ever > dream of using. > > > > So I read here about all the challenges involved with 2.4. I can understand > relishing technical challenges—but what is the attraction of this apparently > finicky and expensive technology? > > > > I just don't get it. Could someone 'splain to me what the big deal is? > > > > Joe Parsons RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
