There’s never been a better time to get started in radio control planes. There is a wider variety of planes than ever, and the equipment is cheaper than ever before. Also a new advances in battery and motor technology mean that electric planes with excellent performance are now possible meaning that you can fly a plane in your local park without complaints from the neighbours. This page describes my experiences of getting started with electric radio control planes, and hopefully it will help you to get started too.
First let’s look at the basic components required to get the plane up in the air. The first place to start is with the radio control transmitter. This is the bit that everyone knows, the box with the long arial on the top that you hold in your hands, that transmits the control signals to the radio control receiver located in the plane. The receiver is just a small black box with an wire aerial coming out of it. The receiver has four or six channels, each of which is connected to a servo or the the speed controller in the plane. The servos control the flying surfaces such as the elevator, rudder, or ailerons. One server is needed for each type of control and each one plugs into a different channel in the receiver, which is why receivers are referred to as being four or six channel receivers.
The electric speed controller (ESC) is used to control the speed that the motor speed spins at. This plugs into one of the channels of the receiver with a plug that looks just like a servo plug. The Speed Controller also plugs into the batteryies and the motor of the plane. The speed controller is very clever because it takes its power from the batteryies, and sends this power to the motor, but also send some of the power to the receiver because the receiver needs electricity to function.
The speed controller also has a special function of cutting off the motor when the battery voltage gets too low. This is a safety feature which means that the receiver and servos never lose power even if the battery voltage falls too low, giving you time to land the plane before it completely runs out and you lose control and crash.
All 33 the motor turns the propeller and this makes the plane go along. So
the one channel will fuel transmitter all usually the left stick is moved up
and down to control the speed of the propeller. The ride stick controls the
elevator and the other ones. Although the elevator and the right to if you’re
flying a plane without ailerons. if you do have a little and the weather is
on the left stick.
All these two configurations are known as three channel and for channel respectively.
So now we know how the electronics work we need to know how to fit them into
the planes. Typically the motor and propeller of fitted to the nose with the
punches just behind them used as a point to balance the plane at the center
of gravity. The Angolan server is usually located in the wing and the other
two servers will be talked away in the fuselage somewhere. Gained control wires
are fitted between the servers and the run, elevator already runs service employees
can move the control surfaces .
The exact location of the electronic components inside the plane is not important.
What is important is that the controls can be operated freely and accurately
and that the plane balances at its center of gravity as troll and on the plan.
The type of plane you choose to fly is entirely up to you but I recommend buying
and almost ready to fly plane to begin with. There are huge variety of these
on the market and some are not very expensive. If you choose to build a plane
from the kids all from a plan you may find the spend many weeks building the
plane and then crashes and destroy it on the first flight. This will lead to
so much disappointments that you’ll probably get from ADO control plane
flying. If however you have achieved simple and reasonably unbreakable plain,
if you crash it’s you may be able to repair it but if not you haven’t
lost much. I got 32 planes before I realized this.
Some planes are built from balsa wood and some were built from foam. I recommend
form planes for beginners Because they cannot be repaired very easily with glue
and they survive crashes better. Don’t be mistaken you will crash. We
all do.
Choosing the right mode to propel a and plane combination is complicated sale
are recommended that you choose the plane first and only the motor and other
equipment recommended in the plane instructions. However some planes will recommend
that you use nicad or lithium ion battery. I prefer Lithium polymer batteries,
and I wish I had started with this type of battery from the very beginning.
This is because you need special its peak controllers for this type of battery
and so the speed controllers on boards for nicad battery’s I couldn’t
use ones I switched over to like the country’s. Lithium polymer battery
is a lighter than their nicad equivalents and the combination of a leafy and
polymer battery and brashness and motor is hard to beat. Some people think that
lithium polymer batteries are complicated and breakfast motors “difficult.
However They are not really like this and if you fall in my instructions you
will get a working system.