Machinehead01
Senior Heliman
Location: USA
| Pantera Outclassed?All birds would be out classed Without the High end parts that some of these show pilots get, ie servos,gyros,radios,engines on and on an on. Heres alittle known trick that I KNOW some of these guys are useing and some of the venders as well. It's something that we are told not to do because for 1 it greatly effects the long term dependability of the electronics, which could also damage the reputation of the radio company, but it is still employed none the less and 2, most of us don't have the deep pockets of a model company. Now consider this, if you were there to put your heli on display for future marketing to the public you would want your machine to perform to its very best right? So your going to put the best of whats available in it to showcase it. Can you, and would overdrive some of this stuff, like servos? Sure why not, it only has to last till the end of the run and you can change it out before the next one, whats a couple of hundred dollars compared to the hundreds of thousands in the long term. To be honest most of us will never fly their machines anywhere close to that level and therefore never even know that they may have been duped. Most model companies know this about the normal consumer. They spend large sums of money trying to find just how dumb we really are. So in MY opinion to honestly say one machine is better than another can't truly be said without taking the radio and servos out and putting the same EXACT setup in another bird. There again the model companies know this too. Most of the general public IS NOT going to do this! We are more than content to sit on our A$$ and let somebody else do the work, and then take their word for it. I saw some of the Audacity models in flight friday, by no means are they outclassed. They are a very good machine for the price and I say there isn't a better machine out there at anywhere close to the price that you can get a Pantera for. I watched some pilots tweaking their Audacity machines for better flight capabilities and then watched them fly afterwards and guess what they did fly better! Maybe we just need to take the time to tweak our birds in instead saying that some other heli flys better. Funny how we are told whats in the models for parts but never told of what voltages the servos are run at or how much nitro REALLY is in the fuel, or what mods made have been done by the company just for a show.
Thomas
I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was going to blame you! |
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