DX 18 service bulletin
07-13-2015, 05:13 PM
#27
A very scary moment at JOK. After landing, my model went into fail safe and the turbine shut down. Brand new jet and a lot of money spent there. It's a gen 2 dx18 and no green dot. Have been flying a 3m CompArf extra 260 with it with no problems. Also have a brand new, never flown stealth dx18 with no green dot. I'm sending them both in. I feel really lucky right now.
07-13-2015, 05:20 PM
#28
I should also add that I never got any notice from Horizon Hobby or Spektrum. Both of my radios are registered. The only way I knew about this was when Linda from Dreamworks called me literally minutes before my friend maidened my new jet. Seriously, we were in the pits getting ready to start up. So, we dropped the program into my other gen 2 and flew. Had a non eventful maiden. Then on the second flight, we had a fail safe and turbine shutdown on roll out after landing.
07-13-2015, 05:31 PM
#29
I have not received any notice from Horizon either, my Dx-18G2 is registered as well and has no green dot. I suspect it's fine as I've flown with it for a year with no issues. I typically don't fly at extreme ranges though.Only as far as I can see lol.
EDIT NOTE: I DID RECEIVE AN EMAIL ON JULY 9, 2015, WENT TO MY JUNK FOLDER. MY ERROR, KUDO'S TO HORIZON FOR GETTING THE INFO OUT (at least to me). Check your junk mail.
Mike
EDIT NOTE: I DID RECEIVE AN EMAIL ON JULY 9, 2015, WENT TO MY JUNK FOLDER. MY ERROR, KUDO'S TO HORIZON FOR GETTING THE INFO OUT (at least to me). Check your junk mail.
Mike
Last edited by luv2flyrc; 07-14-2015 at 10:12 AM.
07-13-2015, 07:20 PM
#31
The only reason I bought these two DX 18's was for the talking aspect and telemetry. Also wanted to have two matching radios for redundancy.
07-13-2015, 09:22 PM
#33
The gear collapse on my PC-21 and since the cause could not be immediately identified, the plane was never flown. The other model was an Aurora and it has been flown 25 times before the event, and more than 30 times during the event before experiencing a radio glitch. The model was grounded since the cause of the temporary signal lost could not be determined, and I became a spectator for the remainder of the event. Don't believe in putting people, property, or equipment at risk just to fly my toys. COMMON SENSE RULES!
07-15-2015, 03:29 AM
#41
Yep. The 18G2 and Stealth can be the master and pretty much any of the other radios can be the slave. You just bind them together like another receiver.
Not only that you don't have to hold a switch, you flip the switch and give control, and as soon as you move a stick it takes control back. Very very slick
Not only that you don't have to hold a switch, you flip the switch and give control, and as soon as you move a stick it takes control back. Very very slick
07-24-2015, 01:25 PM
#42
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range tested mine and no issues it was well past 1/2 mile where it went into fail safe, a buddy had his gen 1 there so for kicks we tested his and within a cpl feet it tested the same , I'm happy mine is ok and will fly on
Kevin
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