ORIGINAL: hcuellart
Hi George, I mostly fly local and do fly a lot in Mexico as I live most of the time over here. It would be quite difficult to transport my large electric over to Afghanistan, but with my current system I do feel comfortable. I am not supporting in any way the way it came out in the beginning, fortunately for me, in the fields I flew they took too much time to do the change so 2.4 wasn't flooded at all, I don't know if this contributed to my success... I do not know Jim Drew and his obscure past or doings, but service from him/them has been just as any other company would be.
Truth be told, I do like to experiment on new things so I jumped right in a couple of years ago, recently, I have been tempted by all these negative comments on the forums to change, but the fact is that I have not lost a single plane and I don't think I will loose one with the new version and running direct lipos on my planes (voltage seems to be important to the XPS system).
ORIGINAL: George
ORIGINAL: hcuellart
I've been using XPS since they came out and never have had a problem. I do use direct lipo as power source and now with the updated version I believe now we have proven frequency hopping capability. Just as XPS has lost planes I have seen the first Futabas heat up and planes lost. I believe no single manufacturer is perfect but now most of them if not all have resolved their gripes...
I am an XPS believer, I have it on a 100cc Composite Edge converted to electric with a Hacker A150-8 on 14S pulling close to 200A, I cannot think of a system more unfriendly to receivers...
Just my 2 cents
Homero
Homero,
Do you only fly at your local field or do you fly at meets or events outside your local area and state? I'd like to invite you to my field and see how you make out.
R/
George
Homero,
Thanks for your honest reply. I only work in Afghanistan, I was talking about flying in Va. Beach. [8D]
It just seems the system works good in only a few places and if you happen to be in one of those places; all is well. My problem is that I travel and fly at many different places and can't trust the system to work at all of them without thoroughly testing at each location. It didn't work at my home field (NALF Fentress), so I lost complete confidence in it. It be interesting to see how the new systems acts, but I won't be trying this time.
Sounds like it is working well for you and hopefully continue to do so. Good luck and thanks again.
George