Hello Hos:

I am flying off of a parking lot and road next to my building. Most of the time I am flying at 3/4 throttle. My last flight yesterday lasted 8 min. and 46 sec.

I talked to a R/C car guy who races to try to find out how I could get more time in the air. He told me to hot charge my battery packs. It will reduce their life span somewhat, but befor I go and spend $160.00 on a brushless motor, ESC, and Li Po batteery pack, etc., I can buy quite a few stock packs at $21.99 each. I have not had any problems yet with the batteries. All those batteries will probably last longer than the plane. He also told me that on a fairly regular basis I should completely discharge the packs and then slow charge them to keep the packs from getting a memory. He told me that if I did this the packs would probably last about 4 to 6 months.

Hope this helps.


James Andrews