ORIGINAL: danamania
One of the club fields I fly at has a number of pilots who hold turbine wavers. One of these pilots had a little MiG-15 sporting as3x that I saw him fly one day last summer. Being a Futaba user, I was naturally curious about his impressions of the new technology. He complained that it wouldn't really let him roll the little MiG on its axis and that he had to fight it to do aerobatics. Apparently the device was truly about stability in the sense of a pilot new to RC. While this programming might be upgraded in the future by the manufacturer, my impression of his as3x flight experience was that it is of little value to those of us who fly aerobatics on a regular basis. Thoughts?
I agree 100%, I have the Mig and the Best 3D in both version, with and without as3X, the as3X helps in a lot of ways to make it more stable, but doing aerobatics is a different thing, is there is strong winds or no wind the aircraft reacts differently, and that is not good, you need your plane do what you tell him to do when you want it to, it is not like as3x on keep your plane form deviating from wind or your own mistakes.
I tried a gyro years ago in an Extra and did not liked it, it was a two axis, it felt really weird at the time.
No matter what people thing about telemetry, electronic aids etc, this is a 100% appreciative sport, if the judge does not like what he sees, you can tell him whatever story about gizmos but you get what you show, I think we are still far from being able to take advantage of the current systems for anyone to cheat.
There is no way to install gyros without wires right now and at the last WC in Muncie Dave Lockhart was checking every plane internals looking for them and moving the plane while we to move all the switches, etc.
Regards