ORIGINAL: RCKen
ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
A question for you. I have always use a 4 ch trainer for instructing but if I wanted to use one of my stunt planes to teach with and they all have at least 5 or 6 channels wouldn't I have to use a radio with that many channels?? I have never done this but this post got my thought process going. I usually always have two aileron servos and often have two elevator servos. Just wondering. I do have an extra 7 ch radio on hand and it would be nice to teach some advanced flying or let a student fly one of my planes just to see the difference of a trainer and something like an Extra. When I let someone fly one of my planes I get the shakes worse then the day I soloed.
For Futaba radios the buddy box is actually just an extension of the sticks. So if you plug in the buddy box to a higher function radio the higher function radio does all the fancy talking to servos on the extra channels, and the buddy box is just moving the sticks.
Does that make sense??
Ken
Surprisingly yes. I guess I could have just gone out and plugged in and given it a try but my shop is in a state of having several things going on and it's just too hard to do anything out there. I have old students that have now been flying for years but won't fly one of my planes?? The planes are all just normal planes without anything fancy, they do have a loose nut on the sticks though. Most of them keep asking how a real pattern plane flys but when I try to hand off the TX they shake there heads and walk away. Fact, they are perhaps the easiest plane in the world to fly, just look scary. I think the buddy box on my planes will be the trick to get them into more advanced planes.