ORIGINAL: BarracudaHockey
If they are sold in the US they are type accepted for whatever band they are operating on.

ORIGINAL: k3 valley flyer

There are already clubs resticting members to use 2.4 only even though 72 mz is still quite legal.

Is restiction of some unknow brands with unknown quality much different? Some clubs restrict to specfic types of aircraft, no helis or helis only allowed.

Do you feel safe standing on the flight line next to a guy who converted his old 72mz radio with a $10 module he bought online from some unknown Chinese supplier. He may be an expert with electronics but are the parts he used relaible?

Just asking if anyone else sees an issue with these very cheap radio products used widely indoors, especially in the last year, being taken outdoors for use on bigger faster planes? I don't, as I have seen these products already cause issues indoors, where there is not much risk of injury but outside is a different situation. Users of the cheap poor quality products will probably weed themselves out quickly, but hopefully before they hurt someone.

ORIGINAL: k3 valley flyer

I had hoped for more legimate discussion but as normal for RCU that didn't happen.

Please don't assume you know me or my motives. As our club president for the last 9 years I have lead our club to allow any type aircraft at our field, planes, helis, sail planes, u-control, even kites rockets and ballons on rare occasions. We allow any type power system, gas glow elcetric rubber band etc. We allow any type and brand of radio system as long as it is FCC and AMA legal.

ORIGINAL: k3 valley flyer

What ever.

ORIGINAL: Truckracer

As someone on the outside just reading through this thread, I can't really see why the OP got his panties all in a bunch. It looked like there was a good conversation going on with some good points being made.

Now to participate in the thread, after looking at several of the ''cheap'' Chinese systems and watching guys use the various off brand receivers and servos that flood the market these days, I'm quite amazed how reliable the stuff really is. Its not necessarily my cup of tea but I certainly can't fault others for going this way. If the stuff works and is reliable, I can't imagine why a club would even consider banning it. Equipment that doesn't work will quickly eliminate itself from the market just as it always has and there has certainly been lots of bad equipment available over the years.

ORIGINAL: karolh

I do think that your last sentence hit the nail right on the head, but you should have added ''and like a spoilt child'' to your ''took his ball and ............

ORIGINAL: k3 valley flyer

I hoped for a conversation, your replies prove, at least to me, that your are looking for an argument. I am done. Goodbye. Gone flying.

ORIGINAL: Truckracer


To be fair to the OP, I too have ''gone off'' in a couple of threads when things took a turn not to my liking. Later on, when rereading through the posts, I realized I was wrong about my perceptions of the thread. Perhaps that is what happened here.

Sometimes it is very hard to put into words in a post what would be very easy if we were having an in person conversation. Here online, things can go in directions completely not intended.

ORIGINAL: blvdbuzzard

Reading through this thread, I have to say I have been the one bringing the ''NEW'' stuff to the flight line. I was the first one to bring this ''cheap'' plastic Tx to the cub. I was scorned because the Tx case was made of all things, plastic. Every one knew that the only ''good'' stuff was made of stamped aluminum. The new cheap stuff was a Futaba setup. Funny how things have changed.

I was ridiculed for bringing cheap stuff into the club again. It was a cheap foreign made thing. They laughed at me for wasting my money on this cheap junk. It was a Super7 from Hitec. Funny how things change.

I have been laughed at for bringing my 9x to the field. More cheap Chinese junk. Well I have had zero, issues with it. It has been bullet proof. I have had less issues then members have with their name brand stuff. I have been using things that fit my need, not what some one else's idea of good stuff is. I will try it once, if it fails, I will move on to the next item. I test every thing well before it goes in the air. Then it is with small stuff then onto the bigger stuff.

I do not need the super duper uber great titanium geared 1200 ounce torque servos for my 25 sized plane. The $6.00 servo works just fine. Yet there are those out there that tell you that is what you should be using. I was told by one club member that he would not fly with me because I was using Airtonics gear. He did not trust it. I had to fly with Futaba, the only good trust worthy radio gear.

If the radio gear has the required FCC sticker, then what?

From my time at clubs, the people are the cause of most failures out there, not the gear, even the cheap stuff.

After reading the thread twice, it seems to me that the OP wanted a lot more people to agree with him and he did not get it so he took his ball and went home.


Buzz.