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This was a flying buddy's plane that I helped build back in Kuwait

u/No-Fix8280 — 22 hours ago
▲ 8 r/RCPlanes

Turbine power loss diagnosis

Hey guys, I was doing some test revs on my make shift test bench today. I have a IQ hammer 90+ turbine. It has maybe 4 hours on it, but I’ve only owned it for a month. I’m still learning how they run/ work and unfortunately had this happen.

I just added a new fuel shut off valve, and some new clear fuel line. I purged the line before use, but I think the valve must have had some air bubbles as this happened.

I’ve only ran the turbine for around 20 min tops, and have had no issues until this. Temps stayed under 650 C, and I’m running number 1 diesel with 5% turbine oil. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

The turbine looks great, no damage to blades or the turbine.

u/Tough-Ad7746 — 7 hours ago
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Brought my FC back to life after 3 days in a brackish lake

I had my first flyaway a couple weeks ago doing nav experiments and my plane ended up upside down in a lake. Well a cool guy found it and posted it somewhere online and I got it back. I was certain it was gonna be fried but I’ve brought it back to life! I’m excited I get to resurrect this one

Judge my soldering if you’d like, I was new when I made this 🤭

u/looking4myclASSm8s — 7 hours ago
▲ 8 r/RCPlanes

Beginner VS. Expert Mode.

Greetings — I’m hoping for a bit of advice.

I’ve been an RC hobbyist for years, but my experience with RC flight has honestly been pretty discouraging.

Long story short, as a kid my dad and I built 2-meter RC sailplanes out of balsa and Monokote. My personal record was about 30 seconds before destroying something we had just spent two months building. We’d rebuild, get another 20–40 seconds, and repeat. Eventually I got into ridge soaring and worked up to about 10-minute flights… before completely obliterating the glider again. Saying we both have PTSD from those experiences isn’t far off.

Fast forward 30 years, and I’ve decided to give it another shot. I picked up a P-51 Mustang, and thank God it has a beginner mode. I now have around 2 total hours of flight time, running 2–3 batteries a day. I’m flying about 90% in intermediate mode and 10% in expert.

Here’s the problem: when I switch to expert (no assist), about 80% of those flights end in a crash.

My goal is to eventually fly DLG gliders, so that crash rate in expert mode is pretty discouraging.

How do you all get past this stage? I’m putting in the reps, but right now it feels like I’m destined to stay in beginner modes unless something changes.

I appreciate any thoughts you may have.

Thanks!

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u/Accomplished_Lake580 — 11 hours ago
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Pilatus PC Porter with a 4 stroke Saito motor and windy kuwait flying

Low quality video but the early morning sun and haze always made it hard to video. Lower your volume the wind is kicking

u/No-Fix8280 — 20 hours ago
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BLDC A221/10T 1400KV dont works

I've tried starting the motor using a 30A ESC and have powered it in various ways, including with LiPo batteries or a 40A computer power supply. Regardless of the power source, the motor behaves strangely. I've used an Arduino with different code and pin configurations, but the same thing always happens. What do you recommend?

u/HuckleberryPresent34 — 13 hours ago
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I need some help

I hooked up my motor to this esc and the battery like usual, I plugged it into channel 1. As soon as I turned on my controller it started smoking. I had it hooked up black to black red to red and blue to yellow. Is my motor fried? And what is wrong and why did this happen?

u/Beautiful-Goal-3557 — 10 hours ago
▲ 3 r/RCPlanes

How to set up ailerons

hey guys I am using a flysky i6x as a transmitter and I can't figure out how to use the aileron

I didn't have a cable so I used 1 aileron on channel 1 and another on channel 5

and when ever I try to use it the display showed this weird result

u/stargazer3644 — 14 hours ago
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İ wanna make my plane autonomous

I want to make my Eclipson Spitfire fly autonomous (waypoints and RTH mainly). I'm a complete beginner at this and have no idea what hardware I actually need to buy.

What's a basic list of parts I should get? I currently have a fs ia10b receiver and fs i6 controller.

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u/tosuncuk3 — 12 hours ago
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Dose anyone know how to fix this

Using the jeti ds12 with the Rex 7 assist and it won’t stop popping up these errors and every time the plane shuts down it forgets its bind

u/Moist-Insect-4333 — 22 hours ago
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