Transmitter range
08-17-2013, 03:05 PM
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Transmitter range
I've done a search and can't find the range of the Spektrum dx5e transmitter. The one that comes with the Radian. Anyone know the range? My plane caught a thermal, my first, and was a speck before I realized......uh ohhh this thing is very high then I lost control and it keeled over and fell a bit before I regained control.
08-18-2013, 05:11 PM
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If you have the receiver antennas well placed it should go 3,000m. I have a DX6i in my Radian Pro with an AR610 receiver (one antenna wire lead ontside on the fuselage belly) and I have had it so high I chickened out and brought her down. That was maybe 900m or 1,000m. My eyes aren't what they once were.
You're getting up where the winds live and updrafts, downdrafts, etc. will bounce a little foam glider around.
You're getting up where the winds live and updrafts, downdrafts, etc. will bounce a little foam glider around.
08-19-2013, 05:07 AM
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I have telemetry on my Easy Glider Pro (about the same size as a Radian) and in the UK (lower 2.4 power allowed) I got to 317m height and the telemetry was telling me I still had 100% signal quality, but i chickened out from going higher as I was afraid of losing visual contact. For a greater range I need a larger wingspan not more radio range 
08-19-2013, 08:34 AM
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Okay, Thx guys. I got a bit nervous off the potential loss of my plane, it was so high. I know it was higher than what the local buzzards normally fly. I did see one buzzard go as high, probably higher, as it thermalled up then soared over the mountain near the house. I painted the underside of the wings black couple of years ago, it was just a speck.
08-19-2013, 09:20 AM
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One tactic a lot of experienced flyers use is the "speck" rule. When you can on longer see two specks, a larger one (the wing) and a smaller one (the tail), it's time to lose some altitude.
It's a clever plan, as it makes allowance for a number of things all at once: visibility conditions, the size glider you're flying, your eyesight that day, and such.
It's a clever plan, as it makes allowance for a number of things all at once: visibility conditions, the size glider you're flying, your eyesight that day, and such.
08-20-2013, 08:44 AM
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One tactic a lot of experienced flyers use is the "speck" rule. When you can on longer see two specks, a larger one (the wing) and a smaller one (the tail), it's time to lose some altitude.
It's a clever plan, as it makes allowance for a number of things all at once: visibility conditions, the size glider you're flying, your eyesight that day, and such.
It's a clever plan, as it makes allowance for a number of things all at once: visibility conditions, the size glider you're flying, your eyesight that day, and such.
Once the model goes from two to one speck it's a very short gain more before it goes to NO speck. And even the two speck situation is for folks that are frequent fliers and on top of their game. It's been quite a while since I last did any thermal soaring and I sure as blazes would not even try to get to two speck territory without a few dozen flights to sneak back up on it. You gotta have a lot of faith in your model and know what it's doing to even get to two speck territory.
