Originally Posted by
sidgates
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Verticle,
I am in full agreement. With heavy wing loaded models (warbirds & jets) you don't dare stall on final approach so most guys make sure they are too fast and then it is hard not to overshoot. I have flown my 1/4 scale Cub and my Shoestring with telemetry air speed and my approaches are much more consistent. I plan on getting air speed now on my jets and warbird. My airspeed is announced on the Tx speaker and the screen read out.
Which radio are you using? I just got a Jeti DS14 and it has all of these capabilities. It will be a while before I implement many of them. If the speed readings can be consistent enough, you could get close to the perfect speed every time before touch down. If you are off, you can go around.
What I am seeing, is that many of the newer ARF offerings are really light. The Top flite FW 190 for example. So you have to get it even slower.