I don't have to compensate by anticipating the lag. I will add this and leave it alone. My flying went from constant correcting of over correcting to having the plane respond the way I wanted it. And nothing, not practice, faster servos, expo, dual rates, speed, etc... improved the 'smoothness' of my flying like the spektrum.
After flying my Worlds Heaviest Carbon Lite Supra 2.4 Sputnik antennae at the Florida contest...I learned that there was a possibility that the radio could actually affect the flight characteristics! I hadn't had a chance to fly the Sputnik system (used for nose cone installs because it ends up with 4 little wires sticking out around the circumference of the pod just behind the nose cone joint). I'd only did some ground range testing before it had gotten too dark to see. So the first actual flights were a few practice flights off the winch before the contest started. The Flight Log numbers sucked...some were in the 900's, but didn't get any holds. Mostly ups and downs because there wasn't a lot of time before the first round started. I'd decided to use it for the contest and to watch the numbers after every flight. Of course I forgot my Flight Logger at home, but Jim McC had his along and let me take reading each flight (you plug it in after the flight but before turning off the RX system). The air was smooth, almost no wind, and warm. Plenty of birds soaring too, yet I managed to get a max of only 3:15mins out of the 4 rounds, which put me at second to the bottom, and the plane had flown thru the landing zone almost hitting me and my timer twice! The numbers were pretty consistent, but I was getting 1 Hold per flight....but the numbers didn't reflect the control during the flight....or at least they ought to have been worse, because at no time was the plane actually doing what I was asking with my thumb. I decided to be safe I'd put her away and dug out my Pike Giant (pretty much a slope racing foil that they'd increased the flap size on for F3J work). I personally love this ship for TD but she'd been resting in her bag for about 2 years...unflown due to affairs with my Sharon last year and the Supra this year. The reason the Giant was along with me on this contest trip was that it got the Spectrum 2.4 Catfish antennae install figured out by Dan F. Remote stuck to the canopy inside with its whisker sticking thru the top of the canopy, and the main in the nose with a whisker out each lower side, only one whisker extended via the shrink tube method, all at the sacred 31mm exposed. This system tested that night at home perfectly, never a number over 150... After round 7 and the contest ended (MOM Seeded by the way) the Flight Log numbers echoed my test results of numbers all well under 150 no holds and no feeling of any thing fishy (well other than the nose looking like a catfish :-). My times were maxes with my usual 2 seconds, and the three landings...75, 100, 100...and a move up to second place over all. So...apologies sort of to Jay poo poo'ing his comments on the value of a fast responding system...or at least having a slow responding one can really hurt your scores and flying :-). Or maybe a heads up to new 2.4 system users who have a brand that doesn't offer a 'tattle tale' device to visually check what came and didn't....if your flying seems to have taken a dive since switching over to a new 2.4 digital system, put your 72 back in and fly a few rounds to compare results. Sudden bad scores to a normally good scoring pilot might just be a bad connection...the words may be only partially getting through to your surfaces. Gordy Raining today in Kentucky...but I still love KY! :-) **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)
