Visa Update. Well the temps are finally coming back and the winter is just about over so we went out and did a bunch of flying last weekend. Actually I did mostly watching as I am going to judge next weekend at one of the team selection contests down here. First of all I gotta say all the guys are flying extremely well and I saw several flights that would of scored in the top ten at our nats.

Unfortunately for Marcelo he has been flying unbelievably poor the last few times I have seen him fly. As a matter of fact I was a little embarressed for him at the last contest. He has switched to the Visa that I flew at the Ar Nats and changed back to his JR. He was really making it look bad. Last week he went to practice and was so bummed he came to the paint shop and started asking if we could paint up a new plane for him this week.

I told him he was crazy that the Visa he has was one of the best flying planes I have ever flown. No mix, light, what more could he want. He said NO MIX yeah right it has 10% right ail on knife edge both ways. I laughed and said thats impossible. Anyway we went to fly the next day as I had to see for myself. Oh yeah he had already changed servos, rec. Batt. and transmitter and it made no difference.

I zeroed everything out locked the wings down and took off. Sure enough the plane was pretty much unflyable and to do anything like a circle or rolling loop was out of the question. After a few attempts I started thinking back when I had the prototype Visa. I had test flown it here in Argentina and shipped it to Tony´s place. In doing so I took out the rec. I had borrowed here to fly it and had Futaba send me another one to Tony´s. I arrived before it did and since Tony and I wanted to fly he loaned a JR rec. We spoke with Dave L and figured out the split rudd program and then went to fly.

The first thing Tony said was yeah right zero mix lol. It needed a ton of mix. I was really bummed because I thought we had it close to perfect. I flew for a couple days (Never Happy with it) and then my rec. came. I went to fly and it was like wow ok here we go. Tony was sick and didn´t get to see it and then I crashed it so we never really talked about it anymore.

This brings us to yesterday. We switched rec. at the field borrowed Javiers Futaba TX, I set up a quick program and bang rock solid with no mix. Marcelo is still in shock as am I because I cannot explain why this is different. I moved all the controls with the JR setup and trust me there is no innermixing on the ground. JR has a great radio, but I am thinking that to run the split rudder you have to use so many weird pmixes something is just not happy. With the futaba you do not need PMixs you just tell channel 7 to be on the rudder stick and it is all done automatically.

I don´t know but because of these experiences and the problems Dave L. had trying to fly the passport, we now have to strongly discourage anyone that is using the 12X from trying the split rudder set up. With a one peice rudder the plane feels great.

Marcelos flying came right back and I am sure he will be a threat to win next weekend. I was also able to cancel my order with another company for the plane I was getting him because of how bad he made our stuff look rescently.

Sorry for going on so long but I thought the whole story was important. Again this is in no way a slame to JR. I assure you guys they have great radios. We have just changed a little from the norm with the split rudder and maybe the programming was not made for this purpose.

C