A very good review, Adam. Nice bit of de-bugging too, with the expo trick. Also, it was interesting to know how HH have 'tiered' their UMX offerings; I was fearing this was setting a whole new vision for the future of UMX and HH had given up the larger i.e. ~30 inch models... like my Aero Commander. Sorry to see that you guys will be lumbered with remote ID units in the near future... where America leads, we here in the UK tend to follow. Hope you'll be having a happy New Year, team Model AV8R.
Thank you Gina! It is interesting, they always have been levels to the ultra micros but they call all of them UMX. I think they are thinking about making the names/levels coincide. They will still be doing more of the UMX/bigger ones. I like those most of all too!! Happy new year to you and Alan!
Where have you been! I am so subscribing! So pleasant to listen to your information. You give every possible angle on this bird even manufacturing info on the umx line up. If you do all your videos like this I’m so subscribing. You get to the point and I never have to fast forward all the BS to get to the answers I’m looking for because there is no BS. It just kept answering all my questions until the end. Thank you!!!!
As always a really nice walk through Adam. I find that the umxs have their place and there is clearly a market for them. There has been a real saturation of them this year for multiple reasons. Im a little over it, but as you know my preference is to larger more stable aircraft. Alas, I digress lol. This is a nice little plane that performs well and you made some great suggestions to make it better. Lots of fun seeing you put it through its paces!
Noob here... I just got a Carbon Cub S2, and I also just ordered the UMX Twin Otter and UMX Pitts biplane (along with an NX8)... looking forward to figuring things out on the Cub and then flying the smaller planes!
Hi Adam, watching ( again) this in Malaysia & loving it. There was a sale here on this & the other umx aircraft so i bought 2… the Twin Otter & the little A-10. They should be at home by the time we get back next week. I will try the 75% expo on the Otter. Regards to you both
Neat little plane. Sure do like the UMX planes. That Otter looks like a perfect plane for some Bubba endorsed challenges.. Outstanding video as always..
Good review, Adam. I will definitely be changing the rudder expo on my NX8 before I maiden my UMX Otter on the floats this winter (if the wind ever dies down). Thank you very much. 👍🏻🙂
Thank you, Adam for the suggestion of adding 75% expo for the rudder. I think that is a great suggestion. I am looking forward to my first flight of my Christmas present, the umx Twin Otter. I also have the big brother, which is a smooth flyer. I enjoy all my eFlite umx planes; the Timber, the Turbo Timber, the Timber X, the Pitts and the A-10 Thunderbolt. LOL
@@ModelAV8RChannel As a private pilot who has lost my medical due to A-fib 10+ years ago ! I have been having fun with Rc airplanes for the last 3 years. I appreciate your reviews and how you share your thoughts. You are very organized and professional. Thanks again. 😎
Adam. You sure do make it difficult to not like this UMX. 😆. So cool that you have hooked up with HH. They are a great group of folks that continue to set the bar up high that in the end we All reap the benefits from. Congratulations and wish you and Heidi the best for the New Year🎉. 😉
@@ModelAV8RChannel Adam- Happy New Year as well. UMX OTTER-- I got weak today and picked one up at my local hobby store.😆 The last one they had, got lucky.... Look forward to getting it out and putting it through its paces. :)
Cool Little Micro! Thanks, nice flight, you make it look easy flying it! I wonder how those floats would do for a set of skis for us snow birds! Congrats on becoming affiliated with horizon, I would like to see you get affiliated with Hobby King also, good luck and wishing you and your family a Healthy New Year! 🐾🐾🐾☠Semper Fi God Speed Brother!
Thanks so much for the kind words bro! I think it would do good off snow with the floats. It has some power for a 1s. Have a great and safe new year man!
Wow very nice aircraft and well presented thanks for imparting some knowledge on it love to hear from you. Happy new year out there love it watching from Philippines thanks for sharing!
Thanks Adam, great demo of the very capable and good looking Twin Otter. I just don't like that if you want one of the UMX planes you better buy it when they come out because they discontinue them so quickly.
Hi Adam! I Hope you had a Merry Christmas! Really enjoyed this video on the UMX Twin Otter. Derik has the bigger one and loves it. I also noticed my pic on the wall behind you. You might scare viewers off with that! Lol! 😄 I have a lot of your videos to catch up on. Keep up the great work and tell Heidi hello for us!
Hey Keith! Great to hear from you buddy! Hope your Christmas was awesome and your new Year is great! Man I'm proud of my picture wall...some great folks on it!
You did it I just purchased one thru your link looks great I have the E-flite umx pitts , umx turbo timber so this will be a nice addition too great videos
Very well explained as usual Adam. Wonderful job filming Heidi. I hope you remembered to switch on the de-icing prior to the flight. I love my Full size Twin Otter and even better, the very similar Nova Twin from X-Fly. I have flown in the Otters whilst filming in Papua New Guinea using very remote strips with some up on a mountain side. At one time we landed in a very remote jungle strip, removed the seats & loaded the Otter with timber to fly to a small village 20 mins. Flight vs a 10 day hike. Amazing plane. Well done guys. Greetings from a very warm Malaysia.
I actually find that with rudder expo. At max 100% is best. To make one motor stop you need to almost go to max on the stick. Which seems more normal. They should recommend this in the manual.
Is it just me or were you giving it a ton of sub trim in flight? I’ve read more than a few clicks is too much and to land the plane and manually centre the surfaces. Not that I disagree though as unless necessary, I would rather not have to mechanically trim. For example, on my Ultrix, 600 I have a whole lot of down elevator, but it flies like it’s on rails so I don’t really feel the need to trim it manually. Thoughts? Thanks for a good review. Appreciate it. I’m waiting for mine and I’m pretty sure I love it because I absolutely love the Ultrix.
Very good video Adam, Thanks for the Expo Tip I will give it a try, I will add a few grams of weight to = the 27grams of weight of the 800mah 1cell pack just to keep factory CG.
Absolutely fantastic review Adam! I was really looking forward to your take on this plane, and it did not disappoint! All the best to you, Heidi and Piper in the New Year 😁👍🤠
I have one and your right that rudder/differential thrust situation is strange at first. I like to fly with coordinated turns and rudder also. I'll have to try that expo trick
Awesome flight 🛫 and such a cool little Airplane ✈️ I really like the UMX Airplanes and this one is definitely gonna be added to the collection 😎 Thank ya Adam for such a informative video. Thanks to Ms. Hiedy for her camera skills, and thanks Mr. Scott for lending the Airplane to ya. Hope y'all had a awesome Christmas and have a good New Years, and again, thank you for uploading these videos! You're setup page has helped 2 of my buddies and me get our stuff setup basically dead on for our Madden Flights, again thank you! 🛫 ✈️ 🛬
A swimming review Adam. Great setup tip for the diff thrust, it's quite obvious in flight and on the ground. Heidi, camera, 👍. Still waiting for a 2/3s Trojan ;). AirHammer out!!
Excellent video with very useful information, Adam! I'm trying to get the 1.2 Eflite BNF Twin Otter, but out of stock until February! Not surprisingly LOL, I plan to put bigger Bush tires on it within reason... Buddy says Hi to Piper. 😎
Nice review Adam and Heidi, it's strange that some planes just don't appeal to a pilot!! For me it's planes like the Trojan and unfortunately the Twin Otter, I'm not sure why but they just don't push my buttons!! Maybe it's the Tricycle landing gear that puts me off, Saying that your review showed what a very capable UMX plane this is in your hands!! And a great bit of experimentation to sort out the differential thrust and getting it to feel like a traditional rudder!! Great video both 😀👍
Thanks so much Ian! Yeah man different strokes for different folks. For me the plane so many like that really doesn't do anything for me is the Valiant. It is a GREAT flying plane, but I prefer my high wing planes with big A tires!
Very nice Adam, I didn't see a knife edge did you even try one with it? one guy tried but it didn't go well. I am thinking it could maybe do it. Does seem to do most everything else well. thanks for sharing and congrats on the HH part. You should be hooked up with them your content is the best out there.
Wow Chris...thanks man! We are humbled by those kind words bro! Yeah I tried knife edge...not quite enough power with only one side making power. Still crazy capable for a 1s bird.
Great video Adam! This is the first one I’ve watched from you and I’m now subscribed. A question: is there a good reason the UMX Twin Otter won’t work as a belly lander? My field is rough grass so the small landing gear won’t work well. Just wondering what you think. Happy New Year!
Hey Mike! Welcome man, glad you a part of the model AV8R family! I don't see why not, they come off pretty easy. The brake stops the props...should work fine as a belly lander.
@@ModelAV8RChannel In any case, I think many in Europe are disappointed with the UMX Twin Otter because of this. For me personally it would have been so much better with Rudder. I understand Horizon Hobby's decision. But somehow not... I would have liked the UMX Twin Otter with rudder. And maybe with flaps that you can adjust by hand to fly indoors? That would be something new 🙂
It should. I haven't flown those, but I've flown several planes with differential thrust, and just by the nature of how it works trim and expo affect it.
Nice little model, I did my first parachute jump from one... fond memory 🙂 A model with wings in the New Year ... sounds like a possible clue 🤔
Ahoy there Cliff, hope You had a great christmas.
@@jonoedwards4195 I did thanks Jono, you too?
It is a neat model Cliff! Wow! I never knew you jumped out of a perfectly good airplane! Cool!
@@ModelAV8RChannel More than once lol
A very good review, Adam. Nice bit of de-bugging too, with the expo trick. Also, it was interesting to know how HH have 'tiered' their UMX offerings; I was fearing this was setting a whole new vision for the future of UMX and HH had given up the larger i.e. ~30 inch models... like my Aero Commander. Sorry to see that you guys will be lumbered with remote ID units in the near future... where America leads, we here in the UK tend to follow. Hope you'll be having a happy New Year, team Model AV8R.
@@old-rcplane-phart Me too! 👍🏼
Thank you Gina! It is interesting, they always have been levels to the ultra micros but they call all of them UMX. I think they are thinking about making the names/levels coincide. They will still be doing more of the UMX/bigger ones. I like those most of all too!! Happy new year to you and Alan!
Where have you been! I am so subscribing! So pleasant to listen to your information. You give every possible angle on this bird even manufacturing info on the umx line up. If you do all your videos like this I’m so subscribing. You get to the point and I never have to fast forward all the BS to get to the answers I’m looking for because there is no BS. It just kept answering all my questions until the end. Thank you!!!!
Thanks very much! Welcome!
Nice flying!
Thanks!
When the review started, I expected you to say 2S or 3S. I have to say it went very well on a humble 1S.
It is impressive, surprised me too. Ton of punch on a 1s.
As always a really nice walk through Adam. I find that the umxs have their place and there is clearly a market for them. There has been a real saturation of them this year for multiple reasons. Im a little over it, but as you know my preference is to larger more stable aircraft. Alas, I digress lol. This is a nice little plane that performs well and you made some great suggestions to make it better. Lots of fun seeing you put it through its paces!
Thank you David. Really appreciate it! Hangar 9 used to make a nice bigger one. I always wanted one, but they are hard to find now.
YUM!
Great review, brilliant stick work.
Crikey, so many cool toys for Us kids.
You Beauty Adam.
If I had a spare Razoo I'd jump on another Citation.
Thank Jono! Happy new year brother!
Noob here... I just got a Carbon Cub S2, and I also just ordered the UMX Twin Otter and UMX Pitts biplane (along with an NX8)... looking forward to figuring things out on the Cub and then flying the smaller planes!
Welcome to the hobby! If you don't have an instructor to help you, might consider Real Flight. That sim can help you tremendously.
Hi Adam, watching ( again) this in Malaysia & loving it. There was a sale here on this & the other umx aircraft so i bought 2… the Twin Otter & the little A-10. They should be at home by the time we get back next week. I will try the 75% expo on the Otter.
Regards to you both
Enjoy your trip my friend! Both of those are fun flyers.
Very nice review. I expect anyone who has flown the Umx Ultrix won't need 75% expo on the rudder. I love differential thrust instead of a real rudder.
Thanks very much. I prefer rudder, but both is awesome too!
Another GR8 review guys!! for 1s that thing is crazy!!!
Thanks Joel. I know right!
Neat little plane. Sure do like the UMX planes. That Otter looks like a perfect plane for some Bubba endorsed challenges.. Outstanding video as always..
It is neat Will, fun little bird! Bubba...hmm. Thanks man!
Good review, Adam. I will definitely be changing the rudder expo on my NX8 before I maiden my UMX Otter on the floats this winter (if the wind ever dies down). Thank you very much. 👍🏻🙂
Thank you Randy! Yes sir the expo made a difference for me!
Thank you, Adam for the suggestion of adding 75% expo for the rudder. I think that is a great suggestion. I am looking forward to my first flight of my Christmas present, the umx Twin Otter. I also have the big brother, which is a smooth flyer. I enjoy all my eFlite umx planes; the Timber, the Turbo Timber, the Timber X, the Pitts and the A-10 Thunderbolt. LOL
You have quite the UMX collection! So much fun inn small packages!
@@ModelAV8RChannel As a private pilot who has lost my medical due to A-fib 10+ years ago ! I have been having fun with Rc airplanes for the last 3 years. I appreciate your reviews and how you share your thoughts. You are very organized and professional. Thanks again. 😎
@@dougcoates5283 Thank you for watching, and letting us know what you think! We really appreciate it!
Nice landing compilation 👍🇺🇸
Thanks Mike!
Adam. You sure do make it difficult to not like this UMX. 😆. So cool that you have hooked up with HH. They are a great group of folks that continue to set the bar up high that in the end we All reap the benefits from. Congratulations and wish you and Heidi the best for the New Year🎉. 😉
Brad thanks so much man. HH is a great company, and Jason is a straight shooter. Happy New Year brother, be safe.
@@ModelAV8RChannel Adam- Happy New Year as well. UMX OTTER-- I got weak today and picked one up at my local hobby store.😆 The last one they had, got lucky.... Look forward to getting it out and putting it through its paces. :)
Great review, and great flying. Might have to get me one of these.
It's a fun one!
Cool Little Micro! Thanks, nice flight, you make it look easy flying it! I wonder how those floats would do for a set of skis for us snow birds! Congrats on becoming affiliated with horizon, I would like to see you get affiliated with Hobby King also, good luck and wishing you and your family a Healthy New Year! 🐾🐾🐾☠Semper Fi God Speed Brother!
Thanks so much for the kind words bro! I think it would do good off snow with the floats. It has some power for a 1s. Have a great and safe new year man!
Great review Adam and Heidi! Adding 75% rudder expo tomorrow! I ALWAYS learn something in your videos/reviews.
Thanks Scott!
Wow very nice aircraft and well presented thanks for imparting some knowledge on it love to hear from you. Happy new year out there love it watching from Philippines thanks for sharing!
Thanks very much! Happy new year from America!
Thanks Adam, great demo of the very capable and good looking Twin Otter. I just don't like that if you want one of the UMX planes you better buy it when they come out because they discontinue them so quickly.
Thanks Tony! It is a capable little bird...surprised me!
Hi Adam! I Hope you had a Merry Christmas! Really enjoyed this video on the UMX Twin Otter. Derik has the bigger one and loves it. I also noticed my pic on the wall behind you. You might scare viewers off with that! Lol! 😄
I have a lot of your videos to catch up on. Keep up the great work and tell Heidi hello for us!
Hey Keith! Great to hear from you buddy! Hope your Christmas was awesome and your new Year is great! Man I'm proud of my picture wall...some great folks on it!
You did it I just purchased one thru your link looks great I have the E-flite umx pitts , umx turbo timber so this will be a nice addition too great videos
Awesome man you'll love it! Thank you so much!
Great review!
Thanks very much!
Great review and flying. HH delivered a fantastic lil Otter, congrats on your affiliate with HH. Jeff in LA USA
Thanks Jeff!
Always a pleasure watching your reviews. Keep up the fine work. You guys are the best!
Thanks for the kind words! We appreciate you watching!
Very well explained as usual Adam. Wonderful job filming Heidi.
I hope you remembered to switch on the de-icing prior to the flight.
I love my Full size Twin Otter and even better, the very similar Nova Twin from X-Fly.
I have flown in the Otters whilst filming in Papua New Guinea using very remote strips with some up on a mountain side.
At one time we landed in a very remote jungle strip, removed the seats & loaded the Otter with timber to fly to a small village 20 mins. Flight vs a 10 day hike.
Amazing plane.
Well done guys. Greetings from a very warm Malaysia.
Thanks Noel! Wow man what a cool story. Enjoy the warm wx in Malaysia!
I actually find that with rudder expo. At max 100% is best. To make one motor stop you need to almost go to max on the stick. Which seems more normal. They should recommend this in the manual.
Yep the expo really makes a difference.
Is it just me or were you giving it a ton of sub trim in flight? I’ve read more than a few clicks is too much and to land the plane and manually centre the surfaces. Not that I disagree though as unless necessary, I would rather not have to mechanically trim. For example, on my Ultrix, 600 I have a whole lot of down elevator, but it flies like it’s on rails so I don’t really feel the need to trim it manually. Thoughts? Thanks for a good review. Appreciate it. I’m waiting for mine and I’m pretty sure I love it because I absolutely love the Ultrix.
Very good video Adam, Thanks for the Expo Tip I will give it a try, I will add a few grams of weight to = the 27grams of weight of the 800mah 1cell pack just to keep factory CG.
Thanks man! Yep the expo really makes it for me!
WOW very nice video happy new year
Thank you! You too!
Absolutely fantastic review Adam! I was really looking forward to your take on this plane, and it did not disappoint! All the best to you, Heidi and Piper in the New Year 😁👍🤠
Thanks bro! I think we see this one the same...
I have one and your right that rudder/differential thrust situation is strange at first. I like to fly with coordinated turns and rudder also. I'll have to try that expo trick
It works well.
Awesome review Adam! Very informative and well done. Also great job by your camera person during the flight segments. Looking forward to seeing more.
Thanks Michael! Fun little bird...really impressed with the power on 1s!
Good vid , I hope to maiden mine in a couple weeks when we go back to indoor , I will take your advice and add tons of expo to rudder channel
Thanks man! Cool you have one...fun little bird!
nice flight and tips 👍
Thanks man!
Awesome flight 🛫 and such a cool little Airplane ✈️ I really like the UMX Airplanes and this one is definitely gonna be added to the collection 😎
Thank ya Adam for such a informative video. Thanks to Ms. Hiedy for her camera skills, and thanks Mr. Scott for lending the Airplane to ya.
Hope y'all had a awesome Christmas and have a good New Years, and again, thank you for uploading these videos! You're setup page has helped 2 of my buddies and me get our stuff setup basically dead on for our Madden Flights, again thank you! 🛫 ✈️ 🛬
Thanks for all the kind words Adam! So glad our stuff helps! Hope the new year brings joy to you and yours brother!
@@ModelAV8RChannel Thank you 🙏🏼 hope y'all have a awesome New Year also
A swimming review Adam. Great setup tip for the diff thrust, it's quite obvious in flight and on the ground. Heidi, camera, 👍.
Still waiting for a 2/3s Trojan ;).
AirHammer out!!
Thanks man! Oh yeah man an updated UMX T-28 would be sweet!
Excellent video with very useful information, Adam! I'm trying to get the 1.2 Eflite BNF Twin Otter, but out of stock until February! Not surprisingly LOL, I plan to put bigger Bush tires on it within reason... Buddy says Hi to Piper. 😎
Thanks Mark! Hey Buddy! Man you'll love that 1.2 when you get it!
Nice review Adam and Heidi, it's strange that some planes just don't appeal to a pilot!! For me it's planes like the Trojan and unfortunately the Twin Otter, I'm not sure why but they just don't push my buttons!! Maybe it's the Tricycle landing gear that puts me off, Saying that your review showed what a very capable UMX plane this is in your hands!! And a great bit of experimentation to sort out the differential thrust and getting it to feel like a traditional rudder!! Great video both 😀👍
Thanks so much Ian! Yeah man different strokes for different folks. For me the plane so many like that really doesn't do anything for me is the Valiant. It is a GREAT flying plane, but I prefer my high wing planes with big A tires!
Very nice Adam, I didn't see a knife edge did you even try one with it? one guy tried but it didn't go well. I am thinking it could maybe do it. Does seem to do most everything else well. thanks for sharing and congrats on the HH part. You should be hooked up with them your content is the best out there.
Wow Chris...thanks man! We are humbled by those kind words bro! Yeah I tried knife edge...not quite enough power with only one side making power. Still crazy capable for a 1s bird.
Great video Adam! This is the first one I’ve watched from you and I’m now subscribed. A question: is there a good reason the UMX Twin Otter won’t work as a belly lander? My field is rough grass so the small landing gear won’t work well. Just wondering what you think. Happy New Year!
Hey Mike! Welcome man, glad you a part of the model AV8R family! I don't see why not, they come off pretty easy. The brake stops the props...should work fine as a belly lander.
@@ModelAV8RChannel Thank you for the really quick reply! Blessings to you and your family.
And to you and yours friend!
I wonder if a new UMX twin with full rudder and flaps will be out soon ?...
This price is ok for you guys in US. But in Europe the UMX Twin Otter is same price like the UMX Timber X (or higher in some shops). Lol😂
Yeah man the shipping overseas really puts the LHS in a position to have to raise the price.
@@ModelAV8RChannel I can not believe that. Don't they come directly from China to Europe?
I don't really know. They have to go to a distributor first I think. Not sure if HH has one in the EU or not.
@@ModelAV8RChannel In any case, I think many in Europe are disappointed with the UMX Twin Otter because of this. For me personally it would have been so much better with Rudder. I understand Horizon Hobby's decision. But somehow not... I would have liked the UMX Twin Otter with rudder. And maybe with flaps that you can adjust by hand to fly indoors? That would be something new 🙂
Adam are you assigning the rudder expo to the rudder stick or an actual switch?
The rudder channel John. 75% is what made it feel right to me, but experiment with it and find the number you like. Fun little plane!
Adam, do you think that Rudder Expo should be applicable on the Ultix & Ultix 600mm? Thank you in advance! 😃
It should. I haven't flown those, but I've flown several planes with differential thrust, and just by the nature of how it works trim and expo affect it.
@@ModelAV8RChannel thanks Adam! 👍
👍👍😊😊
Thanks man!
Always a great review Adam, even the flights are perfect. I hope you, Heidi and Piper have an even better 2023 🫡
Thank you Chris! You and family rock 2023!