I'm new to F3P and would like to get involved. Before I get a plane, I wanted read up a little, so I was wondering if anybody knows of a good artical dealing w/ setups, build techniques, radio programming...stuff like that. Just some benchmark ideas that I can start out with and then go from there with my own tasts.
Any suggestions and help would be awesome.
Thanks

the article Matchless wrote about the stuka is good place to start for building ect. The basic run down for gear is LITE LITE LITE. Dymond 4.7g servos are pretty much the best out there for indoor flying right now. I use them on the elevator and rudder on all of my indoor planes, and I use a cut down 3114 or hs55 for the ailerons on my freestyle planes, the 4.7's are good on the ailerons if its a pattern plane but I like the little extra kick for freestyle(also depends on the plane) As far as batteries go look at flight power 2s 350 packs, there great and very affordable, you basically want a battery that comes in around 20g to build a competitive weight model. I use Spektrum 6100 receivers with the case cut off they come in around 1-1.5g, If you're flying on 72mhz look at the castle 4ch RX they come in around 4g. As far as motors go there are a ton of choices out there right now, one set up I really like on 120g planes is the Hyperion z1705-11 with a thundebird 6. Other good set ups are AXI 2208, hacker A-10's, The Eflight park 250 is alright but not as good as the hyperions or the hackers. The AXI's are great motors but they weight a little more. There are a number of smaller produced motors that weight less but they usually come at a higher price.

Chris

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