Are the HS-81's brand new? They have a habit of chattering around neutral after a while which can be er... postponed by spraying some tuner cleaner into the pot and exercising them for a bit. I learned this while flying RC Combat which is a much harder environment than sailplanes and gleaned the fix from the Hitec board on RC Groups.
If that isn't it, I'd vote for a freshly charged 5 cell pack being the problem-- if it's draied down a little, the problem might disappear. JESTER 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