Phoenix, Epic!!!!

[Toby Heli]

just got my copy this a.m. so I hope its easy to set up...someone told me you need to turn off the pcm on the tranny??? any ideas?

[mattie-lodge]

Yup, put tranny into PPM mode

[robgt]

All the sims I've flown, the Tx has to send a PPM signal.
Cheers,
Rob

[Toby Heli]

Well I have to ay that I am a little disappointed in the product 1) no instructions AT ALL (I have now downloaded the manual 2) It doesnt work!!! - It keeps telling me to plug in the interface when I have already done it AND it then says turn on TX (which I do and nothing happens) AND there is no TELEPHONE number on the web page that I can find so I now have to wait god knows how long for a reply.

This is typical of a product designed by tecchies and not backed up well enough.

We will wait and see if there is a reply???

[Ghost]

Very strange i hope all works well for you soon because i just got mine today and it works great, i am sure it has already saved me money, cant wait to get he training balls off


Cheers Sim.

[Toby Heli]

It would seem that I have got a "faulty interface unit" and their suggestion was to return to the retailer for another...that would have been ok if I hadnt just driven 1hr to Sussex Model Centre to pick up a week old mail order package that they failed to send then 1hr drive home to get back and find this fault.

I phoned SMC to tell them and they said it was 3.35p.m. and the post went at 3.30....suffice to say the toys were out of the pram at this stage and one of them had to trot off for a visit to the post office, fingers crossed I will get it tomorrow!

[mattie-lodge]

Toby Heli,

Perhaps try to uninstall it and reinstalling it. i run it on my desktop and laptop and it went straight in on both no probs.

Hope you get it sorted because your gana love it.

Cheers

PS no real need for instructions. Follow the on screen cal and away you go

[Ade_Law]

never have been a big fan of SMC. did you email phoenix? if they recon you have a faulty interface then it is is def faulty.

Ade

[Raptorite]

Thanks for the info on the night flying guys, I have looked at those screen shots, they look very good, perhaps they got a little carried away with the number and placement of the lights, but nevertheless, it does look very good.

Ade, I might just have to do that

Cheers,
Pete.

[Toby Heli]

never have been a big fan of SMC. did you email phoenix? if they recon you have a faulty interface then it is is def faulty.

Ade

yes, i emailed pheonix and to be fair they emailed back within 40 mins to say it was a faulty lead (rare known fault) and they offered to swap it OR send it back to smc for swap....I asked SMC to post one but it hasnt arrived this a.m. so that the weekend written off for training.

I assume you are the same Ade Law who did the demos on the sim...if you are then you are a bit "God Like" and we are not worthy....I'll get you to sign my laptop LOL

[Ade_Law]

damn post service! they are rubbish round here! Might be worth phoning SMC and chasing them up.

Yes thats me, thankyou :-)

Ade

[Toby Heli]

Well SMC managed to get it to me by special delivery so well done to them.

Took a bit of setting up as had to reverse a lot of servos and re-assign a lot of channels so you need to understand how the copter flies as you might not know how the cyclic works etc..

I am WELL IMPRESSED with it and have seen my hover really tighten up...I can now hold a stable hover on all of the models! About an hour in.

[Toby Heli]

Just Downloaded the TREX 450

Is it just me or is this one of the hardest machines to hover in one position on the sim? - I can get it to stay ROUGHLY still but the other choppers are much easier.

Maybe I have got some settings wrong....one slight movement on the sticks and its like a full stick movement on the jetcopter (I know they are both VERY different but is a real Trex like that?)

[robgt]

That Trex 450 model is a frisky little bugger, but very very similar to mine.

I like em responsive
Cheers,
Rob

[Ashley Davis]

I did make the 450 rather skitty in the hover....however its very easily made more stable. Edit the model and change the hovering stability parameter to 97 or 98.