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When you fitted the battery in a later model in the space in the fuselage beneath the wings did you remove the plastic frame that the two front wing retaining screws, screw into, how did you retain the wings in place?
The battery is fitted into the cockpit behind the motor with a small ESC. The Receiver is fitted under the wings with the excess servo wires tucked in. I also have a small battery charge monitor connected to the receiver that fits under the wing as well. The plastic frame is unchanged from the original model.
@modelmakingmaniacs8600 must have been changes from the early 707 to the 707s, because one I saw earlier didn't have the plastic cowling on the wings, but had a front wedge protrusion on the wings that locked onto a receiving unit under the domed section of the fuselage
Were I still in the market for a bigger plane that 1300mm PA-18 would be high on the list, boys. FMS stuff is always so nicely packed and generally is a dream to fly. My old SuperEZ v4 PNP that we got in a sale years ago for the bargain price (with floats) for about AU$210 landed does get a run occasionally (with RC noise maker installed to scare the flying vermin!) but mostly we're into Minis these days. Easier to carry, smaller and cheaper batteries and not so many tears when the inevitable Kamikaze landing occurs. 😉😊
What an awesome flying location! I love my Phoenix S 1600 but have found that when using deep flaperons, you have to transition to rudder as the ailerons have almost zero effect. Using a thermal setting of about 3° flaps is really nice when hunting for lift though. It is such a floater on a warm day.
Fantastic bit of beach on weekdays. can be a bit crowded on weekends. Thanks for the tip on flap settings for thermal flying. Can't wait for summer to try it out.
Loving watching all your videos guys! Do you mind me asking how much you paid for the phoenix? Its currently $200 aussie and trying to work out if that is too much?
Great maiden! I have 4 or 5 flights on mine now and I'm really enjoying it. I purchased the kit version and fitted an N2830 motor with a 40A Hobbywing ESC. I highly recommend setting up flaperons, both for thermalling and landing.
Hi, I'm in the US and found a Skylark S kit, and your video looks helpful, but maybe 20-30 seconds in, the clarity disappeared, everything blurred, and I''d love to view it clearly. Is there a way to clear up the video? Thanks much, Bruce in Texas
Hello, I have a fsi6 radio just like yours, but when I turn on trainer mode, it turns on full throttle and flaps. I haven't seen anyone with this issue. If you have advice that'd be great. Thanks
Yep. A nice glider but not regretting that we didn't get 1 of these in the recent sell-out. The motor mounting area is a bit weak and we have no suitable area for wide ranging gliding flights at our old mining tailing strip. Surprised that you didn't have trouble with picking up magnetic sand into the motor there - a bad problem chez-us. We're much more into the minis these days. The bigger stuff mostly just hangs from the shed ceiling. My FMS SuperEZ gets the occasional run but it also glides forever and takes some care to put it down easy on the tree-bordered strip. The Kmart twins and AtomRC Flying Fishes are the weapons of choice to wheel with the birds. 😉😊
Might blow the motor with compressed air once the thing dries out. Fun day flying though. A few scary moments but came home in one piece, and the glider was fine too. :-)
@@georgesmith5598 No idea what the price in the UK might have looked like. Something like 60 Quid for us from the Oz warehouse for the PhoenixS. All long gone now.
After searching a while I found today a stupid trick to keep your settings on the student tx, specially the stick mode,if you don’t switch the student tx to student mode you keep the settings and the tx just sends the ppm signal to the trainer to, channels are equal but you have to change the other settings manually
Good video thanks. I have the same one and am not sure if I have an issue with the rudder, there seems to be very little resposne from it (maybe 5mm max from one end to the other) that's whether it's in 3g/6g or high/low sensitivity mode. Do you find yours is responsive?
I have the rudder control horn set to innermost hole, (most movement) and had to cut the fuselage where the control rod exits the fuselage to ensure it did not fowl on the end of the exit hole. Still don't get very much rudder control.
The plane in the background is a scratch build Sky Arrow. Made out of foam sheets cut to measure. Using plans from Julius Perdana on RU-vid. nice slow plane. I modified the plans to a standard tail configuration.
Hi thanks for the great videos, I live in hallet cove and overlook the headland. I have been hoping to see you there. Your vidoes about the phoenix adding flapperons has got me thinking about doing something similar to my own homemade powered glider. I am only new to rc flying and finding sites to fly is difficult any suggestions. Have you thought about doing videos for learner flyers.
Thanks for your comments. The Phoenix glider is very fast and needs a long landing strip. I don't think I'll try fly it at Hallett Cove. I've configured Flaperons, but it handles very differently and can stall on landing approach. I'm still learning how to manage the landings with flaperons. Learner videos is a great idea. Watch this space.
Hi I like your videos I am new to flying I live at Hallett cove and have not had the confidence to fly off of the cliffs. I have built a plane called a photon made from foam board there are a lot of videos showing the building methods which I have copied. This model is a power glider of 1.6 mts. I had a friend fly it for me at the local flying club. I have watched you videos of slope soaring at Hallett cove . I wish you would do more slope soaring videos with information for learners. Cheers keep up the good work thanks
Nice build!! Looks a lot like the one I built but I'm a total newb and placed all my electronics other than the esc outside the hull. I wish I saw this video earlier. I tried drilling out the wing spar hole with a copper tube. I think the way you did it looks much easier. I might try that on my next build
@@modelmakingmaniacs8600 i don't have any hills in area but i already mount small brushless motor on nose of the plane and i cruise around above fields, very good cheap aricraft indeed
The Volantex 1600mm wingers have always been beautiful gliders. Best to add flaps or flapperons to set her down slow and gentle though. Wouldn't want to have a high speed head-on with that gang of Woodies! 😉😊
The old Volantex Phoenix is a great glider. But not for us Old Farts these days. Nose-mounted motors are pretty well verboten and the weight limits and RID coming in on big stuff kills all but tiddlers for us.
@@modelmakingmaniacs8600Regulations will be pretty well universal around the world soon. Some countries are even tougher - eg UK requires registration for ANY UAV no matter what the weight if it has a camera. Japan has non-rego limit of 100gms. Flying only at registered Model Aircraft Club fields by members usually gets you off all the limits but anywhere outside the gates you're back in the daisy-doo!
I have a 3d profile plane that size..i lost elevator control at 70 feet high today..a new rx tape did not hold and u think elevator unplugged..Amazing it hit nose at 40 plus mph...Zero damage! This 3d planes are in a class of there own ...this one may be next on my list i have liked it for a fee years and volantex makes great planes imo..happpy flying
Thank you for the information. It took me a while to get it working but it seems to be doing fine now. Slightly annoying most of the information out there is for the older version using the KN protocol. I did need to update the multi-module firmware to get the mode switching working for reason and unless I'm mistaken the rates switch doesn't actually do anything but other than that I'm fairly happen. Now to get the CG a bit better (bit too aft for my liking from factory.)
I have a Gentle Lady build in progress. I have the fuselage and the wing halves, I haven’t put the two halves together yet. This video will be so helpful when i get to the coveting stage. Thank you!
