Maybe check with your RC flying club right away to see which buddy boxes they have. JR buddy boxes require their own battery pack which has to be kept charged. Thats why I suggest Futaba or Airtronics radios for learning on but its up to you. [8D]

I put a .56 Saito on my son's LT40 and it flys it great. He will be on the buddy box for a while. I understand the crash risk over the 2stroke but the way it runs is worth it.

Well, how did your first flight go???

I got my plane together and I have been working like 70 hours a week for the last month and haven't made it to the field yet. I am on vacation now till after new years so I will make it out there probally next week if the weather cooperates.

Rest-up!

Have one (or more) of your mentors check everything out...then GO FOR IT!

Just let us know how it goes.

Hey mate i would also suggest running a 2 banger on your trainer. Personally im running a LA46 on mine which is about 6 years old and she runs great all the power you would need for a trainer. The question you have to ask is do you want to take this motor out for your next plane? If this is the case i would recomment the 46AX as this engine has some power to play with.'

oh u got it already, nice choices

2 banger = 2 cylinders.

4 banger = 4 cylinders.

etc,

My question for you, Jarrah, is on what grounds are you recommending the 2 stroke? (you might call it a 2-banger) On another thread you wrote that you JUST got your first 4-stroke...I think it was on the 19th of December.

On what basis do you chime-in and advise about that which you have no experience? I can only assume that you're very new to RC flying since you asked someone about putting a smoke system on your 50 size Funtana.

I've owned 2 and 4 stroke glow engines from .25 size up to 1.50 Saito (and that doesn't include my giant-scale gas stuff...which is pretty much all I'm flying these days). In my EXPERIENCE (of which you seem to have so very little) the 4-strokes are more trouble-free and reliable. This may not be the case for everyone, however my posting was from experience, while...well, I have no idea why noobs (as you called yourself in another thread) offer advice so authoritatively with little knowledge to offer such advice.

I used to spend a lot of time on RCU, then I finally got tired of 15 year old kids offering ridiculous advice and reading of people actually taking such advice seriously! I thought I'd return to RCU...glean some info, help the new guys...I guess I might be stuck at the unnamed giant website exclusively from now on.

God help good folks like MadRigger if yours is the advice they heed!

Robert

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Posts: 28
Joined: 11/23/2006
From: Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA
Status: offline Gifts to myself
JR PCM 9X II
Saito 82
FuntanaX 50

Gifts to me
Realflight G3.5
JR PCM 10X Air

Oh and i soloed today wooooot after 2 lessons...hopefully ill be able to keep myself in the air. bahaha

Well i suggested this simply because it was the advice given to me and as im sure you will agree 2 stokes are generally recommended for beginners?? Hence i do not see the harm in passing on information that was given to me to other people trying to get into the hobby. yes its true i have no experience witg a 4 stroke but from what ive seen at the field and what ive read the 2 strokes seem a lot easier to get goin right. (Ive been around the hobby for the past 6-7 years thru my father who has been flying for the past 45 years tho i have been on a hiatus from flying myself for the past 5 years.)

Cheers

I'll throw in my 2 cents here..

I started learning with a Sterling Fledgling and an OS FS-40
I never crashed that plane during training..
It kept going for 2 years until the wing bolt mount failed in flight followed by a quick trip to the round.

The FS-40 survived that crash and is powering my step sons Eagle II today.. Still going strong.

Why do I like a 4 stroke on a trainer?
They swing a big prop so you get better prop braking.
Good power but not screaming fast..
It's quiet and souls cool

I've have 3 - 4 strokes (FS-40 FS-61 and a Saito FA-45) I got 20 years ago.
All of em are still running great.. I don't find them any harder to keep running than the 2 strokes.

The biggest problem I see at the field is people running the 4 strokes to lean or at RPM's highr than the motor can handle.
You can't tune it like a 2 cycle motor.

It's not harder.. Just different.

Fact is I have more trouble with the OS .45 FSR than any of my 4 strokes.

The downside is cost weight and future use.. A little 4 stroke will cost you as much as a ST3500..
They weight is a bit more than a 2 stroke of equal size.
I'm kinda stumped for a plane to use it on after the kid is finished with the Eagle.

It would be great in a twin but then I'd need to find another one.