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Old 10-12-2018 | 11:10 PM
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Dave Wilshere
 
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The 160Rxi-B is just a turned down 180, so potentially even more bullet proof. The P-220Rxi-B seems to have its bugs sorted, the P-300Pro comes from the P-300 and is used by the military/industrial sector, so its performing well.
Biggest thing for me is the stuff most people miss, I’ve flown a lot of other turbines and although reliability is great through most brands these days, the idle thrust on many is really high and power only at the top end of the throttle stick.
Obviously it depends on model, heavier loaded models don’t notice the high idle thrust so much and the clean low drag models don’t suffer so much when the throttle is opened, but fly a draggy scale type and although you hear the turbine spool up if you watch the airframe it takes an age to get going. JetCat I describe as big block power, like the difference in a big V 8 and small turbo 4 cylinder producing the same power figure.

Most of the issues I saw were with the pump ( motor quality) and the brushless motors have removed that.

Dave