ORIGINAL: Dave
TO SILENT-AV8R
In November 2009 issue of Model Aviation on page 23 the author of R /C Soaring at the Nationals reports:''Overall Soaring had just approximately 30% of the registered pilots flying on 2.4GHz'' !
Must be a reason?</p>
Soaring was slow to adopt mostly due to the fact that in 2008 many of the high end planes had 100% carbon fiber fuses. Check the NATS in 2011. Or consider the Visalia Fall Soaring festival. 200 individual pilots with close to 300 entries (multiple classes) I believe there were around 25 or so not on 2.4. You still see a few holdouts, but that is mostly driven by cost of conversion, not worries about performance.