Hi guys, just a bit of background before the question. I have been flying fixed wing for the past 16 years and heli's for about 3 months (although I did have a sceadu 50 for a couple of months about 4 years ago but a case of dumb thumbs destroyed it and I stopped flying for over 4 years). As I am allergic to nitrous oxide I have avoided using nitro in my fuels (yes I know they are not the same). I used to run the motor in my sceadu on the same fuel as my planes (20% oil no nitro) but decided when I got back into the hobby a few months ago and lashed out and bought all new gear (minister for war and finance was not happy with the $6000au bill for getting back into the hobby). Any way as things have changed quite a bit in the last 4 years I didn't know how the new motors would run without nitro. My supertigre 2300 is fine but the manual for my 50 hyper said minium 10% nitro (or something like that) so as a result I have been running 16% - 20% (pending on what my local shop has in stock) but have been suffering major headaches every day that I fly (similar starting symptoms to reaction from laughing gas). Any way I blew the motor in my Titan (the hyper) and instead of re-building it have decided to get a new Thunder tiger redline 53. Now the question is this - has any-one ever tried running these motors without nitro? I will not be flying any aggressive 3d just basic forward flight and maybe some basic aero i.e. loops rolls slow flips ect. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I have to use nitro I will not giving up the heli's again just because of headaches there is Panadol ect. for them lol.
Cheers
Aus_Panther (Clinton)