ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
I don't use filters but when I flew at a field surrounded by farms I did. If you hit the weeds/crops without one your carb was stuffed with seeds of many types. At one point my local field was just a weed patch we mowed, filters were mandatory.
You pretty much described the area around my house. When I'm competent enough to fly on my own I will fly from my own driveway, mainly because it will cost me 20 bucks in gas alone to head down to the nearest flying field. There's cow pastures on all sides of my land, and only about 3/4 of my 2.3 acres is mowed. The rest is quite overgrown.
ORIGINAL: jimmyjames213
i guess ill touch the engine subject
for the most part you will be able to get every engine that is on the main market today to run and run rather well
this includes, os, supertiger, gms, magnum, tt, asp, ect
os engines break in the fastest for the most part, they run well after the first few tanks, take a few gallons to totally break in though
supertiger, some people have problems with them, i have a gs-51 and its one of the best running engines in my fleet and i maybe have a gallon (if that) through it, idles great and transitions amazingly well
gms, tower stopped making them??? but the few i have are also very good engines....the 47 i have will idle at close to 1000 rpm on 0% nitro
magnum engines, i have 5+ magnums, the 52 is a beast of an engine hard to tune/breakin but once it has a few gallons through it it runs very well, the 46's are also decent engines, virturally the same as the os.46 engines just takes alittle longer to breakin
tt i dont have any but ive tuned quite a few and they are good engines
asp is the same as magum (just a different brand name)
for the most part no matter what engine you get it will do the job, some will only buy one brand or the other, ive tried most of them and havnt had a problem with a single engine, some are more picky than others (mag .52 for example ) but once they are tuned properly and broken in all of them work great.
power wise the .46/.47 engines are about the same
the gs-51 (supertiger) ax55 and magnum .52 are about the same but the mag has alittle more power than the ax and the ax alittle more than the gs-51 but they are so close i wouldnt worry about either
if you are really looking to get something for cheap, hobbypeople.net has a sale around christmas time (cant remember if its before or after) and magnum .46's are on sale for 50 bucks, just pick one up and have at it.
I'll check 'em out. I'm seriously considering grabbing the plane now and getting bits and pieces over time to complete it. It certainly would look awesome hanging from my ceiling while I buy the bits it needs. I was going to get a 4YF 2.4ghz to use on my cars, but my 2ch AM system does seem to work just fine. I suppose I can get used to using a pistol grip. Or maybe buy another 2DR on AM 27 if I absolutely must have a stick radio.
As for cheap...well when it comes to engines I'm not one to cheap out. I will gladly spend more for a quality engine. But if I can score a brand new, high quality engine for 50 smackers then I certainly will. I may like my OS but I'm not brand loyal.
Oh, and on thunder tiger: Associated outsources their engines to Thunder Tiger. I've never heard mass reports of guys with AE nitros complaining that their engines throw rods during breakin or won't hold a tune. I even had one that had been quite severely overheated in a previous life, yet still ran for a few seconds at a time. So I assume they're pretty good based on that.