Vortex or Vbar?

[bulnose]

Well I've bit the bullet and bought a Vortex The clincher was a £40 off deal from FL as I preordered my Goblin from them. £235 for a Vortex and data pod I'll have some of that thank you very much! Thanks Fast Lads.

So to those who are still curious, expect some feedback from me in the future

nice one, but how did u get a deal off fast lads at 11.30 at night ? lol

[Varelco]

Lol It was an email off from them

[bulnose]

its good to talk

[KevDavies]

Ive not flown either V-bar or Spartan. Ive flown a beast x tho and ill be honest didnt like the way it felt. Whether it was just setup or not i dunno but it felt really edgy, a bit too responsive and wouldnt stay still in a hover if I tried!!

HOWEVER

Ive said it before and ill say it again. If the Vortex isnt the best damn fbl controller in the world ill eat a tramps sweaty string vest! Ive that much faith in the Spartan product.
I will soon be buying a SuperAva1000 off Haydn and it will be fitted with a Vortex.

[Kiwi64]

given it is my sponsor i do not give flight feedback as it will only be seen as bias which is fair enough. there are enough reviews about now to get some insight into the VX1.

cheers

Test pilot gives feedback to manafactory ?
sponsored pilot promotes product to public ?

[waveydavey]

The problem with FBL Kev and the great thing is that you can customise the feel to your liking, so one mans meat is anothers poison. You can change everything, the way they start a maneouvre the way they stop, you can change the feel of nearly every little possible parameter changing the whole flight experience so someones BeastX may be set nowhere near how you would expect something that you setup to fly.

I love the BeastX, the cyclics are very direct, the tail does work but needs careful setup to get the best from it, but best of all you plug it in go through a setup and go fly, it nearly does that straight out of the box as well as most pilots would ever need.

If you didn't like the BeastX on first outing then you're probably not going to like the Vortex as the cyclic feel is very similar, out of the box that is. Thats why I don't reccommend FBL to a beginner, if you can't fly you can't setup a FBL unit well, and you certainly couldn't expain to someone how you want it to feel.

My feeling having flown all 3 are that you pay your money and make your choice, no one would be dissapointed with any of them. Some just take more work because of their high end capability and in my opinion you can only get that high end capability to work if you can fly and know what your personal feel is.

[Jamin_00]

Most pilots would get on fine with a BeastX. Be careful when reading reviews about 'the tail' as unless you are doing things like high speed hurricanes, funnels, advanced piro manoeuvres and even reversals then its not really a true test of a tails capability (and a lot of that can be down to the tail servo choice and/or set up). If you want a well proven 'Ronseal' unit (that does everything brilliantly) then V-bar is the way to go. If you fancy something that will work well, is fairly exclusive at the moment and will no doubt be developed further then the vortex it is. Either way that little Goblin will be great fun!

Very true and I just edited my post about the tail as I cant do piro flips etc but do fast inverted tail first hurricanes so just made that clear so people dont get any wrong info or take it to mean Im doing stuff which im not

[KevDavies]

The problem with FBL Kev and the great thing is that you can customise the feel to your liking, so one mans meat is anothers poison. You can change everything, the way they start a maneouvre the way they stop, you can change the feel of nearly every little possible parameter changing the whole flight experience so someones BeastX may be set nowhere near how you would expect something that you setup to fly.

I love the BeastX, the cyclics are very direct, the tail does work but needs careful setup to get the best from it, but best of all you plug it in go through a setup and go fly, it nearly does that straight out of the box as well as most pilots would ever need.

If you didn't like the BeastX on first outing then you're probably not going to like the Vortex as the cyclic feel is very similar, out of the box that is. Thats why I don't reccommend FBL to a beginner, if you can't fly you can't setup a FBL unit well, and you certainly couldn't expain to someone how you want it to feel.

My feeling having flown all 3 are that you pay your money and make your choice, no one would be dissapointed with any of them. Some just take more work because of their high end capability and in my opinion you can only get that high end capability to work if you can fly and know what your personal feel is.

Fully agree Dave. Like I say it was probably the way he has it setup. But it was so far from a flybar I wasnt comfortable.

[Planehazza]

Fair comments on the Datapod. BeastX was such a sinch using the single button and the TX, but it wasn't that "fine tunable" as much. With one of Coolice's BT modules an and android phone with the VBar App tweaking is dead easy.