Subj : New hobby
To   : Amcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jan 10 2001 01:34 am

RE: New hobby
BY: Amcleod to Pistolgrip on Wed Jan 10 2001 06:31 am

 > What you _don't_ want is an old 2-ch radio with one stick left/right only fo
 > "rudder" and the other fore/aft for "elevator".  The Hitec radio shown on th
 > Zagi site is a 3-ch radio but channels 1, 2 on a single stick rather than tw
 > separate sticks like some other 2 or 3-ch radios.  I'm not sure how you cont
 > ch-3 on the Hitec though.  It's supposed to be fully proportional, but the
 > picky is too small to see if there is a separate slider or what for the
 > throttle.

Yeah, there's a slider on the back for throttle (for your left index finger).
 
 > I hope to be meeting eith the head honcho at the local aero-modellers club
 > today.  <sigh>  Beureaucracy makes life so much harder!

Good luck!

Rob

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