Align 3GX FBL system

[mattie-lodge]

Hi Guys,

What do you all reckon about the New Align 3GX FBL soon to be released?

They are describing and a complete new flight performance, RX to accept Spektrum/Futaba Sbus and nitro gov all in one.

Following suit with the rest I guess!!!!

Sound interesting or not ???



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[Downdraft]

I think they have their work cut out for them Matt.
The current competition is now very good with BeastX being well priced and pretty damn good at what its designed to do and the Vbar seems to have outstanding performance but its a bit on the pricey side.
In the real world Align need to have a product thats able to fit both criteria, Excellent performance & excellently priced. Looks neat and tidy though hey.

Guess we'll have to wait and see.

[pgkevet]

It's Align. It'll have plenty hype..plenty superb flight vids and talking-up by pros and then folk will rush out to be beta testers. 2 months later all the problems will start being reported and 6 mths later Align will bring out the fix... having sold more than enough crash spares to cover the fix r&d. I'll wait lol

[Stuart]

Its looks neat but I suspect that this is where Align might (I say might very loosely) start to realise that to release a product without it being seriously tested and de-bugged in a rush to try and saturate the market before as they knew cheaper alternatives to the well established mikado vbar units was also about to be released.

The lack of attention to detail in the first version may well now back fire when it comes to releasing revised and upgraded versions. Because the market now has so much choice now and in some cases the prices aren't that much when you think about the time you invest in trying to fine tune systems to get the to really feel locked in, sometimes paying more isn't such a bad thing.

Align are great in my view at marketing and market saturation but quality hasn't been one of there finer points unfortunately and as a previous Align flyers and still I am one with DS610's, you get what you pay for.

I don't doubt that it will sell as there is a massive rush to always buy the newest in our hobby, then watch the market flood with second hand units in a few months, so I'll wait I think for a while to see what happens.

[jamiem]

I think it will be pretty good tbh. They have had a long time to develop this and see what the competition is doing. Personally I love the flight characteristics of the vbar 5.1 with paddle sim, BUT, and it's a big but, the reliability is crap, and te service from mikado in Germany is pretty poor too tbh. The latest saga of my returned vbar continues with emails asking if my sensor "is the black burnt looking one". Er, no! They've basically lost it and have had to replace it with new. Anyway, I digress, I really hope this is good as I would like to move away from Mikado, but right now there is nothing else I've flown which flys as well.

[bikerflier]

I think it will be pretty good tbh. They have had a long time to develop this and see what the competition is doing. Personally I love the flight characteristics of the vbar 5.1 with paddle sim, BUT, and it's a big but, the reliability is crap, and te service from mikado in Germany is pretty poor too tbh. The latest saga of my returned vbar continues with emails asking if my sensor "is the black burnt looking one". Er, no! They've basically lost it and have had to replace it with new. Anyway, I digress, I really hope this is good as I would like to move away from Mikado, but right now there is nothing else I've flown which flys as well.

Not having much luck with your electronics lately then Jamie.
Perhaps you should try this, rather like your new project build you are on, no electronics here.

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But then again that's failed as well.

Keep smiling, you've managed to get replacements in the end, thats good, but frustrating with all the messing about.
Cheers
Malcolm

[ChrisB]

I will find out soon enough I personally think they are going to make up some serious ground with this I know mikado is probably the best system but they have been doing it for years the other companies have given them a serious run for their money and I think anyone would be a fool if they think Align can't eventually pull a decent fbl system out of the bag.

Let's be honest before the 3G came along fbl owners were seen by most as nerds but since Align came into the Market everyone wanted a piece of the action,Align created the explosion in fbl use fullstop.

Fast forward 12 months and will Mikado still be the best? Can they afford to stay ahead of the newer and much bigger players after a piece of the action.Time will tell.

[Si_B]

Well, I've put my name down, so I'm hoping they have learnt their lesson with the 3G. Seriously tempted to fit the Beast X and put the Align unit on my 450 until its proved itself. Even if I get one of the first batch, mine will not be in the air straight away, so I guess if any early problems arise, I might miss the worst of it.

[J-S-Q]

It will presumably be bundled with the heli kit anyway so I'm sure lots of people will try it. You wouldn't have thought they'd release a new 3G system if it wasn't markedly better than the old one so maybe this will actually be good.

[Si_B]

You wouldn't have thought they'd release a new 3G system if it wasn't markedly better than the old one

That's what I'm banking on !!

[ChrisB]

Will first be supplied with the new 600E,then more widely across the board according to info on Freak.

[millerman]

TBH if the Tail is better than the old unit this one should be pretty good , anybody know it its using an external sensor like the v-bar or is it an all in one box like the beast ?
also i see the gov is built in to the unit i wonder if this is an active item or the same as their normal unit ??

[ChrisB]

All in one unit using new sensor chips with standard governor rce 600 I think it is.

[millerman]

All in one unit using new sensor chips with standard governor rce 600 I think it is.

no official word on cost as yet i guess ? but will be interesting to see how it goes

[Jamin_00]

Got burnt with the 3G so no chance for me. Absolute pants imo and I suspect this feeling is shared by many???

Got a beastx on the beater to maiden this weekend but nothing will replace my Vbars just yet.