Flying with others?

[900ss]

If you have say 10 helis flying at the same club, how are the frequencies worked out?
How do you know what crystals to bring? I assume that’s what you call them?

Is more then the one heli normally flown at the same time?

[Disc]

We have no allocation so any channel goes using a Peg on system so you sign in and put your Peg on a Channel.

If someone comes along on the same channel your expected to work with each other and I always recomend that you put your tranny with there kit when there flying and theres with yours saves any tinkering to cause a crash.


Heli flyers can fly together if there both happy with that. My choice is fly solo and I make that well known. It takes enough to watch mine that alone anyone esle.

[900ss]

Cheers
If it isn’t a daft Q, how many frequencies can you have flying at the same time?
Can they interfere with each other? Or isn’t that possible providing they are on a diffo freq (no matter how close) by that I mean I’ve looked at a crystal n seen a 5 digit no’

[Ade_Law]

most clubs will have a frequency control system working

the crystals set the frequency you transmit on and that corisponds to a channel number, your BMFA manual has a nice chart showing the frequency and channel number

the club will have a peg board. at most clubs this board has the channels marked on it with a pin sticking out. You clip a clothes peg onto it or hang your membership card on it this stops somebody else from using the frequency. this is often referred to as a "Peg ON" system

the other way is a "peg off" system. where you have a board with 1 peg on it for each frequency. The peg is marked with a frequency as well as the location where the peg came from. You take the peg off the board and clip it to your transmitter. You must not switch on the tx unless you have the peg for your frequency.

they both have their merrits, sharing a frequency with another flier is safer on a peg off system as you need the peg to switch on.

we have 35 frequencies to use and yes you can have lots of models flying at once if you wish. I have been to a competition where we had 20models up at once... we were flying combat... oh what fun we had.

with helis its a little different we tend to spread out a bit more so we all have our own bit of airspace. which isnt an issue if you dont overfly the other transmitters. Adjacent frequencies can interfere with each other in that situation.

Ade

[900ss]

Cheers, very helpfull

[Steve]

We're really fortunate. We are a relatively small club in terms of numbers, so we assign a frequency to each member as their own, using only even numbers on the whole, so there's usually a gap of 2 between yourself and the next person. In other words, I have 6 models (3 helis and 3 planes) all up and running at any one time, and they're all on channel 80 which is my club slot.

It eliminates shoot-downs, but the down side of it is that we have no frequency discipline and switch on and off whenever we please. I found this a bit disconcerting a few weeks ago when I flew at another club, and had to make a real mental point of leaving my transmitter firmly in its case until I had a slot to fly.

[900ss]

Cheers

What is the range of a transmitter usually used to fly a nitro heli?

Can someone sitting in his or her house 2mile away that might be messing about with a tx interfere with your heli whilst its in flight?

[Ade_Law]

less than a mile and things will start getting weird. minimum recomended distance between clubs is 1.5miles

one very good reason not to fly in a built up area. the more houses in that range of you there are the more chance of somebody flying a micro in their garden interfering with you.

Ade

[ChrisB]

another reason to ban those damn mini electrics



No i am only joking

[Smoothound]

...but the chances of someone 3 streets away flying in their garden interfering with you by flying on the same channel are negligable, next door could be a problem though.

I get more agro from people on close channels up Mill Hill than anything I've ever experienced in my garden with the T-rex because of the close proximity I would fly at in the garden.