ORIGINAL: mwick
''When 100% of the US Worlds Team is flying electric, 80% of the US TOP 10 has converted to electric I have to ask myself if ''Little Johhny is the one out of step?''
Dick:
I don't think you are out of step, just an independent thinker that doesn't blindly follow the masses
Consider this; at the last world finals it was 50% glow, 50% electric and glow (YS) took the top three spots. Presumably these top 10 pilots could fly any propulsion system they choose with full sponsership. I don't believe an electric has ever finished in the top three at the World's but granted it is only a matter of time.
Before you think much more about electric put a 8 ounce tank on your YS and fly for the 8-9 minutes it gives you. Don't run the tank dry but don't worry if you do, it's not like fully discharging a $400 set of batteries.
Mike
Good points, Mike. Me, I just LIKE a piston engine in the airplane. Feels like the difference between a machine and a toy, to me. Personal opinion only, keep the flames back, guys! I'll grant it takes a bit of experience to run glow; most of the guys here SHOULD have acquired the skill set by now. And I just put in my third set of bearings on my primary planes motor, this year. Of the other two motors, one needs a bearing set now, and the third is a new rebuild. Fourteen cases of fuel in 100deg+ weather. The motors do better on the Cool Power 30% Heli, it seems. Apprx 500 flights. 'Prolly woulda done better if I'd used the Cool Power from the first.
I'm an electronics tech by trade, but I'll bet you that I'm better at rebuilding YS engines than I am at rewinding motors, repairing lipo batteries or putting the smoke BACK in to speed controllers. Stuff like that, the only solution is to throw more money at it. Which is much, much simpler than learning what is wrong and addressing the problem, like Dick is doing, here. Kudos, Dick.