Matt is very accurate in his assessment of the other third party speedlimiter, it is not a smooth transition like the integrated jetcat unit is. It is a bang bang type unit, when I used it years ago while I was still flying RAM engines I almost crapped myself on a couple of flights when I thought my engine had flamed out. The throttle was not pulled back gradually but it was cut to idle.and then bang back on when the speed got down below the preset value. My experience with the Jetcat unit has been very positive and I think it could work very well but the probelm is that the Jetcat unit is integrated to the ECU and even if it could be developed as a third party device it could not possibly be tested on all radio/engine/ecu combinations in a short period of time.

Without starting a debate on other branches of the hobby why is it that jets are deemed as so much more dangerous when a Giant scale racer weighing in at almost half again the weight of most sport jets and is capable of the same speed as most of the really fast sport jets are? Yet there is no talk of limiting their top speed, or engine size. It just seems like the jets are the whipping post.


Matt,

I think the tiered system is the ONLY way to insure that the really high performance aircraft are in the hands of the people that are #1 willing to jump through the most hoops, and #2 are ultimately the caliber of pilot that can handle them.