14 Signs That An RC Plane SUCKS

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Happy Landings! Fly outside the box. 📦✈

[jamesglover]

My buyers tip is to call the dollar store to make sure they have foam board before you make the drive out :-)

[paulrybarczyk]

If you really like a plane, it's sometimes better to just buy a second one rather than worrying about the availability of expensive replacement parts. After you wreck the first plane, it becomes your replacement parts for the second. Total expense works out about the same. 🙂

[air-headedaviator]

Back when I did buy new planes I used to obsess over learning as much as I could before I pulled the trigger. Mostly due to having super limited funds for it. It was mostly over the anxiety of whether this plane was easy enough for me to fly than anything.

[LegoCrashes]

Yea, as you were saying, E-elite and Hobbyzone have updated the timber so many times. I was originally going to buy the Timber turbo. But when I did some research and found the weight? It was 2 pounds heavier than the previous model. Always do your research!

[thenerdoligist]

A couple of things. 1-spare parts can sometimes be 3D printed. I put my model for for the hobby king P51 Galloping Ghost up on Cults for free. 2-stickers can look great on foamies if painted with clear polycrylic. Helps keep the paint on too.

[userTJ]

Having learned to build and fly through Flite Test, I am well able to fly just about anything and manually correct it's cg or crooked build mid-air. When I build them myself, I have plenty of time to check and re-check everything, so I pretty much stick to those now, going forward. Plus, I'm out of space for planes I don't love.

[BeefD]

I've owned like 3 different MPX Funrays which has about a 7 feet wingspan.
the first one was PNP, had all the electronics minus the battery and receiver, weighed like 2500 grams fully loaded, the 2nd about 2200 grams, and the last one I decided to go kitbuild and managed to reduce the weight to 1800 grams.
that's just under 4 pounds. when the first weight 5.5. such a big difference in weight makes a hige difference in it's ability to stay airborne for longer without needing to use the motor.

[thedevilinthecircuit]

Buying used often means buying overweight. Repairs almost always add weight; a plane with lots of hours on it usually has additional CA, epoxy, stiffeners, splints, and other stuff that leads to the same thing as eating at McDonald's.

[userTJ]

I have gradually been adding balsa planes to my fleet. They seem abnormally light for their size and often fly longer than foam due to this.

[Squid_Wizard]

If you have the chance when buying a used plane. See if you can test the servos there because I had planes with all bad servos that needed to be replaced.

[userTJ]

#4. One of my swap meet planes is a Sig "Blue Star" I got excited that it was balsa and resembled a 4-star. However, the motor is woefully underpowered and the components are all set for 2S.

[greenseaships]

In my experience (scale airplanes) paint is usually indispensable. Have you ever seen anyone sticker-coat a B-17? If all you're after is a foamie to beat around the sky like a bush plane, go for white with stickers and have fun. But those of us who want scale recreations to fly and cover in sweet sweet Callie Graphics, paint is absolutely necessary, and I wouldn't regard it as a sign that an airplane "sucks"

[EJ-]

9:10 Not being straight, The airplane 😂🤣😂🤣

[ficosk]

Good and important one! 👌🏼 Buying from someone experienced that doesn’t sounds like a car seller is also better as from one unknown that has a lot of junk. $9 for a cheap plastic geared Amazon servo is quite a lot! 😅

[greenseaships]

6:39- An ALASKA 737! Does the battery hatch suddenly pop out during flight?

[Maximum_]

5:57, this is why I'm so excited to fly my UMX Conscendo, I adored my Conscendo Advance for 5 years, until the esc died mid air, but above all else, I just always wanted it to get lighter and stronger/stiffer. This UMX version, which I just got my hands on and haven't flown yet, seems to be exactly that, same power as the Advance, just smaller and lighter, and seemingly way more well engineered, the Advance had some issues to say the least, and out of the box the UMX feels absolutely solid. My only worry is that it's a V1 plane technically, however I'm really hoping the UMX version essentially functions as the 4th Conscendo, and they've taken what they learned on the last 3, and not made the same mistakes on the UMX.

[SkyWriter]

Pro tip on the paint: Take your dinged up part into the paint shop at a Lowe's and have them mix up a computer color matched sample jar of latex paint. Costs under $4 and will keep your foam bird looking nice.

[scoutworks]

It's so funny that you jump right on to the Freedom Fox and the Draco.
I have both and I gotta say that you are right on the money with the Freedom Fox. Out of the box, it was dog sh*t to fly and the stock motor & ESC were garbage. The landing gear is made out of dry pasta and barely held in place. The paint flecks off of it if you so much as touch it and it's stall characteristics are abrupt and nearly unpredictable. Also I nearly forgot about the tires; they are made of the worst imaginable foam for tires. I skinned mine with liquid electrial tape and they are much better now.

Once you put the extra money into replacing the motor and ESC, it flies much better. I've also added a reinforcement plate to the landing gear, but the single biggest upgrade I made to the Freedom Fox is adding vortex generators to the wings. MASSIVE UPGRADE!! I can now no longer stall the wing. The elevator now loses effectiveness well before the wings let go.

Draco on the other hand... That one is a chunky b**ch. It flies very scale in that you fly it the way you would fly a real aircraft. It's not a stunt plane, so aerobatics are off the table, but I do really enjoy flying it. I replaced the main tires with DuBro inflatable tires and made my own custom hubs with bearings in them. The tires soak up a ton of energy when landing, so as of yet, I have not bent the landing gear. The only "problem" I have had with Draco as of yet is knocking off a few of the scale antennas.

Draco gets an 8/10 from me. It took a bit of work to get it to where my standards are, but it's a great scale plane out of the box. I love my Draco!
Freedom Fox gets a 2/10 from me. I needed to do some CAD work and replace major components to get it to fly nicely. This one is shelved.

[yeagerchaplin]

As a full scale busbpilot, the efl draco is definitely a bushplane. On the more scale side of things.

[greg]

Bring back the Dural gear for the Timbers and spek low bounce wheels. Did that on an old bush plane it works ok.