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Old 02-25-2007 | 01:12 PM
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In addition to fuel, you will need a glow ignitor, a prop/glow plug wrench, a manual or electric fuel pump, and either a chicken stick or electric starter and battery.

Thunder Tiger offers a nice basic field equipment package available through eHobbies.com for $29.99:

http://www.ehobbies.com/ttr3002.html

A deluxe field equipment package with electric starter and wooden field tote is a very good investment, but isn't necessary to get your first trainer in the air. Hobbico sells a nice deluxe field equipment package available through Tower Hobbies for $119.99:

http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXL419&P=0

The deluxe field equipment package from Hobbico does NOT come with a rechargable glow ignitor. It comes with a glow lead that hooks to a power panel. Starting your plane this way is perfectly acceptable, but you will want to be very careful managing the glow ignitor wiring near your engine and propeller.

My advice? Start with the Thunder Tiger basic field equipment package then add a wooden tote box, battery, power panel, and electric starter down the road.

With regard to the Hitec radio system included with the Pegasus .40 super combo, it does have a buddy box connector on it and is usable with Hitec or Futaba radios when connected via the proper cable. Hitec radios use an older round DIN-style connector, and finding a compatible Futaba or Hitec radio or buddy box should be fairly easy. Most of the new Futaba radios use a square 6-pin connector on the back, and if you need to connect to the newer style Futaba training connecter, you simply need to purchase a round-to-square cable instead of a round-to-round cable.