Not to argue but for the people new to the concept of 2.4 there are scenarios that they may be confusing. For example, I fly a few times a year at a club off of the Columbia river in Oregon. Blue lake park is like flying out of a bowl picture this in your minds eye; To the right of you is the levy or dike of the Columbia River and to your left is a park with a small grove of trees which you must always avoid on your landing pattern. You thread between the dyke and the tree on every approach and landing.
On several occasions I have been on the other side of these trees and had my plane drop into heavy sink and out of my "line of sight". I have to either run around into view or wait and see how it comes out. I have never had anyone tell me that after dropping behind the trees that my 72 MhZ system glitched or lost control. I can imagine that this is just one scenario that the uninformed are concerned about. No one is arguing the fact that if my plane drops behind a barn, mountain or other large land mass that I have larger issue such as "what the hell was I thinking?" but there are a lot of other little pieces of minutia to converse of the line of sight debate. This season I will be looking for some 2.4 setups to run back into this area and check signal.... :) On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:16 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find this discussion somewhat strange. After all isn't the term "line of > sight" pretty self expanatory. > > It doesn't make any difference whether you are flying 2.4 or 72 or 35, if > your bird goes behind a building, a dense tree line, a hill, etc. and you > can't see it then you probably can't fly it very well and if it doesn't come > back into view pretty quick then it doesn't make much difference if the rx > continues to get a signal or not. > > The only savior now is if you have fail safe and it's programed to work, > you may have a chance to get you bird back with little or damage. Maybe. > > Of course if radio is still communicating and you try to continue to fly > blind, good luck. > > Regards, Dave Corven. > 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 >
