ORIGINAL: js3
ORIGINAL: bbbair
No; the antenna does not have to exit the airplane in order to work.
What you need to do is ensure is that the antenna is fully extended (no major bends or kinks). We have seen people that wanted that "Clean Look" and they actually COILED up the antenna in order to make it fit inside of the AC.
This has the effect of shortening your antenna and 'REDUCING' your range. - you could loose your AC if you let it get too far away. [
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Au contraire, the antenna MAY be coiled up inside the fuse and
still provide more than adequate range for our purposes. You just have to make sure that it is coiled CORRECTLY.
It would seem that we are both agreeing on the subject, the plane will work with a coiled antenna - you will just have a
"REDUCED RANGE"
JS3's comment was
"more than adequate range for our purposes",
I said "
This has the effect of shortening your antenna and 'REDUCING' your range. - you could loose your AC if you let it get too far away.
The key here is to keep your plane in close to the field, so that you do not exceed your reduced range. Easy for an experienced flier that has a tight grip on the flight envelope (racers and Scale types) but for a novice - the AC can move out of range in a hurry - which is what I was trying to say...
