Leardriver
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From: Piscataway, NJ, USA
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Hey Guys,
Rob I don't doubt it...Comp-Arf's claim of 24lbs is a bit on the low side to say the least. I am sure that there are some out there that light, but I would put down paper that "most" are in the 25 1/2-27 lb range. I spose it doesn't matter because they all seem to fly very well once they are setup. So when is your Carden gonna beready man? Albert's flies soooo nice, I was just blown away. Out of the box it was just amazing! I gotta get him to get started on my fuse already! LOL!
Shortman, the reason I decided to go the Smart-Fly equalizer route was simple.......I don't own a programmer and just cannot see dropping $150 on one. Plus, the equalizers are a hell of a lot simpler and easier to setup than messing with the programmer. Yes I know the programmer is viable but imagine going to am IMAC event to find out you have a bad servo. Let's see...do I take 5 minutes to set up the equalizer or go looking to borrow a programmer from someone and spend considerably more time trying to figure it out. My buddy borrowed one and it just is not that simple and proved to be way more time consuming than I deemed it worth. And to be honest, I went the Hitec route cause I got a very nice deal on them. I am honestly not yet convinced and with things like the JR 8611 and Futaba 9152/9153 now avail it is going to hard to justify the expense of the programmer for the Hitec equipt.
I also want to sent out major Kudos to Bob from Smart-Fly. When I was setting up my plane I unfortunatley received a Smart-Fly 3D Equalizer that was defective (my luck), but not only did Smart-Fly send me out a new one they also "threw in" one of their "Bat-Share" units "for my trouble". I didn't even know that they did that until it showed up at my door. That was extremely thoughtful. Yes, good customer should always be expected, especially when you are dealing with a defective product, but I honestly thought this was going above and beyond and really made a satisfied customer out of me. Even though it was not an overly expensive item it really showed me that these guys care about the products they produce and the people that support them by buying them.
And just to clerify things...the Equalizer did not fail in the plane...it simply did not work out of the box. I don't think it is a common thing at all since we have a bunch of guys using em around here with good results. I also installed the ignition cut and it works flawlessly as well. So I will be very happy to support Smart-Fly/Quest Engineering by using their products again in the future and I encourage ou guys out there to give them a try. Ok...enough raving <g>.
Leardriver
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2.6 Extra and 40% Carden 330 maiden flights! - 
! Aside from some mixing to be done on the 2.6 everything went extremely well. And as far as the Carden....wow! I was fortunate enough to get a little stick time on Albert's Carden and it is absolutley awesome. All I can say is that anyone who honestly thinks that Cardens weigh too much hasn't spent any time flying them cause at 39lbs (with Dalton Aviation pipes) this thing flies as light as kite. It actually "felt" as light, if not lighter, than my 2.6 did! And I can say that the vertical was just ridiculous....unlimited just doesn't quite describe it. I cannot wait to get my 40% Carden built! 
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