darkfa8
Key Veteran
Location: Eatontown, NJ, USA
| About your questions, though I'm sure John will glady advise as well...
The Tiger flies great out of the box and by following the exacting setup procedures clearly outlined in it's excelent manual. You can check out the manual on the Audacity site or at the hobby shop and compair that to the others as well.
The only bearings I've replaced were the main shaft bearings due to a crash. The top one was notchy, the bottom one was ok, but I replaced both anyway.
The larger bearings are a good thing since they can handle more load then the smaller bearings. They have more surface area on which loads can be distributed.
I agree that the Raptor has a strong following, it's sorta like the Mustang of the heli world.. it's not perfect, but it does what it's advertised to do and at a relatively economic price and the aftermarket support is huge...
The Tiger 50 is the underdog by default since it's new and personally, until some people started talking about it on here, I had never even heard of John or Audacity.
Sometimes being different has it's advantages.
Somethine else I'd like to mention is that on several occassions John has called me, personally on my cell phone to say, "hello" and check on my flying. I've tried to push to get my LHS's to carry parts so I don't have to mail order all the time, despite that I'm willing to stick with with John, and the Tiger since John treats like more then just a customer, he treats you like a friend.
Granted, he's gotta make a living, but in concurrance with the press reviews, John isn't trying to sell lies about his product. It really does live upto what all it's proponents say it does and does it well.
...and, when I have the man behind the American distribution of this product calling me on my cell phone to see how I'm doing and what he can do to help me get in the air or make his product better, well, despite the Raptor being as popular as it is, I haven't heard of people from Thunder Tiger calling it's customers up to check on how they're doing and wht they can do to improve their product.
By the way, I'm no pro pilot. I've got about 65 flights in since January of this year. I'm just a regular guy who is really appreciative and supportive of companies and people who actually care about what their customers think and feel about their product.
I wish all businesses worked like this.
Anyhow, that's my sentiment. Maybe some day I'll get to meet John, shake his hand and personally thank him for making me feel important.
- Dan G. - |
I had a Shogun that has had a lot of money put into it to keep it in the air and in the end, I wasn't happy with it. I loaded it up with bling but that didn't prevent in-flight failures from occuring. The joy of flying was going away.
