Originally Posted by
allmetal plane
Respectfully, many here talk based upon assumptions without Facts....Real airplanes have tons of aluminum, steel, magnetic components, lots of very thick hardware surrounding those diminutive antennas which ARE CRITICAL for their navigational equipment .
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While you are correct about the construction of full scale airplanes, I can assure you that the antennas design and location are key factors to them functioning correctly in this environment. The antennas are not mounted inside the aircraft. I wish I could give more details then this but this is a case of better safe then sorry. The reason that your airplanes fly with metal construction is that there is enough signal leakage into the structure and 72 MHz would be much more reliable in this environment then 2.4 ghz.