Arrows - Prodigy 1.4m RTF - Unbox, Build, Radio Setup, Maiden & Son + Camera Crew Flights!!!
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Nicely done Megan and Andrew.
Watch out Brian, you will soon be Camera Crew whilst we watch "Megan Phillips RC Channel" 🙂
Good idea!
Probably one of the best and most informative video for the beginner. Great job to both of you. Keep up the great work. The Sailors just fly and give an opinion, you are the whole enchilada. Unbox, build, great advice and of course the flying. Kudos.
Thank you!
Apprentice. Sensei. Prodigy. The name itself conveys a sense of teaching. Great video, good to see the family enjoying the planes too!
Well said! Thanks ;)
P.S. It was excellent watching Camera Crew and Son fly! Thanks for sharing your family and so much of your life. Its fun watching and hanging out with you guys.
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed watching them fly too! If the wind would have been lighter, we would have done more of that part ;)
Brian a time saving tip for you, next time you need to thread leads through a fuselage, use a nut that will fit with a thread tide to it.
Make the thread long enough to reach all the way through, tie the other end to your leads, drop the nut through the fuselage, then
you can pull your leads through.
Good idea!
great seeing the family on camera and working together.
Great grandpa beginner...me has learned a lot watching your vids. It's appreciated! Thanks out to you and crew.
Glad to hear it! Thanks Craig
Ugh that is one of my dreams is for me and my two boys all to fly together. They are really young 2 and 1. They love to watch the night radian at night.
They'll grow up too quick. Make sure you get them on the sticks as soon as you can. RC Cars are less intimidating, as you already know, but great place to start.
Really fun watching Andrew fly! Proud moments! Love it!
You bet!
A standard LiPo cell typically operates at 3.7 volts. When it's fully charged, it can reach up to about 4.2 volts, but as soon as you start using it, the voltage drops back down. Now, when you wire up three of these cells in series - that's lining them up so the positive terminal of one battery connects to the negative terminal of the next - you get a combined voltage. For three cells, that's 3.7 volts times 3, giving you a total of 11.1 volts. This series setup is all about boosting the voltage.
On the other hand, when you arrange batteries in parallel, you're connecting all the negative terminals together and all the positive terminals together. The batteries are aligned side by side, or parallel to each other. This kind of setup doesn't increase the voltage - it stays the same as a single cell - but it does increase the amp-hour capacity. That means the batteries can deliver the same voltage for a longer period of time, making them last longer before needing a recharge.
"Man, you answered more questions than I even knew I had."
Yep. That's me. Great video. Thanks for the breakdown. 👍
Incredible video. Perfectly done with the beginner pilot in mind. Very in-depth and informative. Loved the family flying footage. Thank you.
I'm glad you finally flew this one. I have a PNP version on pre-order. When I saw the Saylors fly it several months ago I thought it looked like a really fun, super cheap ($129) model that I can just fly for fun. Its super sporty for a pusher. I also wanted a plane I could just let any friend who has never flown before try and not stress over.
I like those battery straps, its funny they put the big beefy ones on a tiny 1300 3S plane.
yes, they got the first delivery, and we got the lost one ;(.....
Glad to see you test this one. Great job.
Glad you liked it! This plane is a great beginner choice!
Man this guy is detailed and interesting to listen too. I learned a ton watching this guys videos!
Thanks so much! Glad you're here with us, and hope you'll be flying soon, if you're not already! So much more fun in your future, if you're just starting here - boy-o-boy...you have so much fun ahead of you!!!
This "kid" will be 78 this August. I started flying RC Planes about 2 1/2 years ago. The two biggest helps for me have been the "SAFE" technologies and being able to fly right outside my door - so I get to fly a lot without having to drive to the club field. [I only have 4 acres but have permission to fly over some of my neighbors' lots... so maybe a total of 10 acres or so.]
You are so right!!! We were so lucky to be able to fly where we were, and I did A LOT - repetition helps so much! Frequency is a huge help!!!
The camera-crew is becoming more and more the star of the show Brian. First she's showing you up with the hover-board and now she's out-flying you LOL
LOL - She hates being on camera, but I think she does amazing!!!
Good Morning from the UK. Mine arrived yesterday and going to build it this morning.
This will be the first plane I will fly and get some stick time
Your Video is great saves me reading the small print of manuals will have it on my phone as a build and set up.
Thanks
I have received good information from your videos, mainly on radio set up! Keep doing what your doing. I like! Glad to see your family involved. Because of you I had to purchased the dynam b26 and others! Addicted.
Thanks, will do! Glad you're getting some good out of them!
Man this was so awesome! This is why I LOVE this hobby. Great flying from ALL of you! Also nice nails camera crew! And this is why I come back for more.
Just wanted to lyk about something cool I did. I put an Avain 4260 800kv motor in my Dynam FW-190. She's 6s now! Man it's exactly what it needed and should have been. Anyway, happy flyin and great great video!!
WHAT??!?! That's cost more than the plane - LOL ;) 6S??!?! Whhhhhhy?
You need this now - Fw190 bit.ly/2NswTZ2 - LOL ;)
Мастерство пилота порожает!!!👍
This bird would be great for traveling. Not too fast-great for a small landing area-not to big-just fun man. As always, great camera crew and tips!! Keep up the great work brother!! I’ve learned more about RC birds from your channel than A N Y other channel Brian-thx
You're welcome, and thanks True Blue You (did you change your picture?)
@@BrianPhillipsRC nope…did you see something different?
I love this plane and its cool it handles wind well. I live in a very windy city and it’s usually variable directions which makes landing interesting but i love a challenge. It has blown almost steady for 3 weeks up to 60mph. I only fly in less than 20 lol. This will be my 3rd plane. I love “beginner” planes and im probably intermediate now.
WOW - that's very fast wind! You need to get into sail planes, and find a place to SLOP SOAR - if you don't know what it's all about, it's AMAZING!!! You need to look into it. It might seem lame at first, but it's WAY more fun that you can imagine just watching a video.
Good luck!
@@BrianPhillipsRC thats what my dad used to do. Motorless balsa gliders at the oregon coast in lincoln city. They would thermal for 3 to 4 hours and sail in the wind. Im not into that
Great job, thank you guys.
Welcome back G Bro ;)
great job brian .great plane a really good price for a r.t.f one of your best in depth videos .nice to see your wife and boy flying. plane looks really stable with no bad habits.
Glad you enjoyed it - He's doing great, and Megan is trying so hard. I love seeing them both progress, and it's gonna be so cool when we can legitimately fly together!
Awesome, Team Phillips rocks! :)
Thanks Dale!
Great video. Congrats to camera crew.
I'll pass along the congrats Norm ;) Thanks!
best video ever,great job everybody,especially Megan
Thanks Richard!
I counted about 3 times that you damn near flew that bad girl into the dirt! LOL Love it.
yes sir!
Andrew done great 🔥 Camera Crew done great as well 🔥Cool pusher plane. 🔥
Nice flying Brian 🔥👍✌️
Thanks Erric!
Wow this bird 🦅 is fantastic! Glides great but you can push it too! Corn 🌽 hole 🕳 moves like you wouldn’t believe! Epic!
Just possible ;)
Nice Plane & New Dr Suess Flagpole! 🤣😎 Thanks
si senior
Awesome pilot and awesome glider 😎🤙
Thank you! Great value, this plane!
I hear an Eastern Meadowlark singing in the background. Cool Plane!
Yeah, sounds of spring!!!
She needs to be on camera more often🤗 enjoy all of your videos. I am an aviation nut.
She's not big on being in front of the camera, but you're right ;)
I like how arrows allows for plenty of elevator usage in it’s vector mode.
YES - Agreed!
Fly Brian, fly!
;)
Woo!! another great video!!!! Thanks for all the time you take to help all of us have fun!! I have been waiting for this video and it was super informative. Just one question if you don't mind. I'm still trying to decide on the Prodigy and the Aeroscout S2. Will the aeroscout do ok in the wind like the Prodigy did?? Thanks for flying in the storm!!
I think the Prodigy is a better value. I think the AeroScout 1.1m is better in that you can wheels up wheels down if you wish.
Both are great. If you want to support us AND Hobbyzone.com - you can order either from here FYI...they're great folks to deal with...and we have MASTER links to both...
Master links ( Item Links )...
Hobbyzone bit.ly/2YjzKJg ( Prodigy RTF bit.ly/37zJxzt | Prodigy PNP bit.ly/3MiMeUB )
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Nice flight... nice plane. I constantly have 5 to 12 Vultures that I thermal with. Sometimes, they will fly a pretty good distance to join up with me if I am in a thermal. I have never had them attack...they get close ...but only because they are curious. When I see them up in my flight area ..I am heading up to meet them!!
SWEET! There was 20 Vultures across the street, so there must have been something dead over there?!??!
@@BrianPhillipsRC they do an excellent job of clearing a carcus. Road kill maybe. They are damn sure ugly....but the best thermal hunters ever. Next time you see them up...go join them with your best sailplane.
I'm glad you added the flag pole Brian you where beginning to run out of obstacles to hit . Lol
NICE!!! We plan to move it into a different spot if and when we pay exorbitant amounts to have the power lines put underground.
Good work rc buddy 👍😃
Thanks 👍
GREAT VIDEO
Thanks!
Nice flying kid dads a good teacher
Thanks Shane!
great videos.
Flying family. How cool.
46:37 Arnold: who is your daddy, and what does he do
LOL - nice!
Like your new wind sock Like to fly that in our thermals when it is 115 this summer
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Nice reasonably priced bird I love it
sure is!
Cool plane and awesome review, next time use a pushrod or thin piece of wire and push through the fuselage from the front and when it comes through just tape the wires to the rod and pull gently. easy as shoveling snow in Key West, Florida.
Thanks! Good idea!
Hi I bought the prodigy as I had the archer 600 that flew so well so I wanted a bigger type !!!! the problem with the wires in the fuselage is to use a small carbon rod tape the plugs to the end of the rod + slide through -another thing I used wire for the s-bus connection + I got a BAD connection "intermittent" which as you know is a complete disaster -so I would stay with the Arrows transmitter .Also with other trannies the servo reverse does not work so well .
nice pusher glider goes well
I forgot to activate BREAKING, which would help quite a bit
Glue in the elevator! On my second flight it slipped out a notch and I had to HOLD full UP elavotor to just stay level until I could plop it down going into the wind. I used Qucik Grip from WM at about $4.99. It flies like a stunt/jet fighter. Great Flyer. Its like a fast version of the FMS east trainer. I'm 4.30 on 1300mah and 6 minutes on 1800 of spirited flying. You could go 2 minutes longer on each lipo if your mostly soaring!
Excellent! Glad you're enjoying it!
Meagan Rocks, and Andrew also.I want to see them fly the CZ 150T. They have the skillz to pull it off.
She would freak out, but Andrew could do it, for sure! I think Megan CAN do it, but she needs to WANT to do it more, to help driver her into success.
Binding only has to do with the Transmitter and Receiver. If you have control of the ESC, then you're good to go. I do like your idea of re-calibrating the throttle channel, just to be safe, but you may not even need to do that.
When in doubt, either dig deeper and FULLY UNDERSTAND what's going wrong, or replace it. ESC's that fail mid air, cause a pretty dangerous condition. Glad you had the presence of mind to replace this ESC - good call!
They JUST today got the PNP version in stock, only $129. A steal at that price.
I thought so!
Excellent video on the Arrow Prodigy 1400 build. Clarified many questions I had. Truly helped. One question, doesn't the antena need to remain straight for best reception? When you pushed the antena into the hole, was there room for the antena to remain in one line without curling? Thanks for such a complete build video.
I think I like this better for my first plane
Get this one - good choice!
Prodigy RTF bit.ly/37zJxzt | Prodigy PNP bit.ly/3MiMeUB
I think this will be my next plane. It's less expensive than the aeroscout and seems to perform better. The only negative is no landing gear.
I think this is an amazing value for the money, not to take anything away from the AreoScout, which is also smaller ;)
@@BrianPhillipsRC I fly at a grass field and it actually taxis pretty good on the grass. 😁
i love this plane,,,,💞💞💞
It's a great one!
Well.....you wont leave the transmitter on and kill the batteries. Maybe that's what they were going for with the beeping?
I dont NEED this plane.....but think I will pull the trigger anyway! Sure seems like a great value! Good for beginners and more experienced pilots....something to grow with that has a very wide performance envelope!
Thanks for all the hard work you guys....cant imagine the time you put into making these videos.
You got that right Ben!!! Beep
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LOL
Hello Brian,its power Airplane,verry strongher super😁😁😁😁😁🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🏆🏆🏆🏆
Sure is!
Hoping to invest in the Arkfeld pro.!
That was great! I wish I could get my wife & son to fly with me, whenever I mention it to my wife, I get “ The Look” 🤨 😂
That's a bummer!
LOL you KNOW Andrew is flying Brian's Viper 90 when the parents leave him home alone...
LOL - I don't think so, but if I caught him doing it, I would be so proud ;)
With you coaching your fam with the flying maybe your next gig should be giving lessons ?
Coming from a sub 1 year grim reaper of foam planes , there seems to be so much knowledge needed to flying (even rc ) science ,physics , mechanical……..it’s a crazy hard challenge but also fun
Cool plane !
Thanks! I love doing this, and want to keep doing it for the rest of my life, but as with anything else, things morph and change with time. We'll see how things go in the next couple years, and hopefully we'll be positioned to better care for our RUclips channel, and more PPG and other aviation endeavors ;)
Thank you very much for the videos. You are very helpful for me. One question, can I use my spektrum nx10 to fly this plane and if so, do you have a video showing how to set it up? Thanks in advance. BTW, nice to meet your family. Regards, Rodger Glenn
This particular model is in a Ready to Fly (RTF) finish level, but you can always take out the Receiver and install your choice to pair up with your NX10.
I use tweezers to handle tape so skin-oil won't end up on the sticky side. I dont like skin-oil on any of my planes via on the tape.
Good idea!
If no junk pile you live in Suberbia… sub urbanized areas are not the real countryside! Must define this function and ask my buddy Steve to implement it into one of collaboration robots 🤖.
LOL - exactly!
Hey Brian, I just got mine assembled. Bought from your link. Does the RTF TX have dual rates on the left switch? Does that 3 position switch do anything?
I don't think the OTHER switch does anything...the one is for MODE...the other is jut for the additional, unused channel, and I believe you can use it too! So if you want to add flaps, for example, there's no reason you couldn't.
Hi enjoyed watching yr video thank you. I’m thinking of buying this glider but before I do. Can u please tell me if there’s enough cable to remove the wings for transportation. Thanks again Mark 😊
If there's NOT, you can add a servo extension cable to each wing and just leave them inside all the time. I did this too years ago, when I had to take an ASW28 apart all the time.
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big fan of the channel ! will a 2200 mah like the one they put in the carbon cub s2 work with this bird?
Should work. IC3 will stick into an XT60, but you can also get adapters, if you think you need it.
The XT60's WON'T stick into the IC3's, so just keep that in mind. I suggest if you're sharing batteries, like most do, start collecting lots of adapters, or making them. This will keep you in the air!
I order 10X Packs of M and FM ends of each type I run into and then I can make my own adapters, weather is be parallel adapters, series adapters, or just type to type adapters.
@@BrianPhillipsRC thank you for the reply!
Hello Brian, thank you for your vidéo, what do you chose between Eflite Conscendo and the Prodigy? Thks
Conscendo Evo, but I'm not a beginner.
Conscendo Evo bit.ly/3bVtYkM
Prodigy RTF bit.ly/37zJxzt | Prodigy PNP bit.ly/3MiMeUB
Thank you from France for your response
Thanks for the fun video! For a beginner, how do you compare this to the AeroScout? Which one goes slower and glides better?
This is cheaper. AeroScout smaller at 1.1m but offers wheels up, wheels down experience, but you can still hand launch it.
Advantaged to both. Both are great choices.
see...my "regular" new rc pilot recommendations ;) They're both on there!!!
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Thanks for the reply. Do you noticed any of the two to have particularly lower stall speeds? Also, do you prefer the vector or safe stabilization systems?
I AM A NOVICE BUT WACH YOUR VIDEOS ALL TH TIME. THIS IS A REQUEST ABOUT STORAGE -------Hello Brian and wife. My name is Bill and I am expecting my Arrows Bigfoot any day now. I ordered it thru your website. I live in Queen Creek Arizona and was wondering about storing my plane in the garage where temp"s can reach 120 Deg"s. Should I NOT store it in my garage?
I have often wondered the same thing, and for this reason, I've been storing planes in my BASEMENT for years. I know MANY guys use their garage, or they would be divorced, but I don't know the consequences of compliance with their reluctant wives...do they have extra foam damage??? I can't say, since I'm super lucky to have room in the basement.
Please do share when you decide.
Do a video on the new windsock if you haven't got one planned already!
We do, it's coming soon ;) We're working on a PPG update series, and hope you'll keep an eye out for it.
3.5 hr video quite a long one. Great tip on making a vertical stand for multiply planes.
Spektrum’s safe mode really doesn’t allow much elevator usage.
You CAN open up the range, but I usually don't bother.
Do you think you could try the banana hobby T-50 (I didn’t know why they didn’t just call it the su-57)
Hey Brian, in a past video you said that tower hobbies were good for international shipping but I checked and they don't ship internationally. Do you have any other suggestions on how to get the products down here to New Zealand? 🙂
I have been told, but as you mentioned there are sometimes major difficulties getting ANYTHING to NZ...as we've come to learn. I wish I knew better, since we have a good amount of audience that would love to support us and buy from our links, not to mention, we want you folks to have these AMAZING planes!!!
If we hear of anything, we will pass it along, and I seriously as you to share too, if you find out how. We would love to help NZ and Australia are both very, VERY hard to ship too. It's basically container, or nothing...so until someone gets REALLY serious about marketing items to NZ / Austrailia, there won't be any choice....and WHY??!?! They're closer to China than the USA mainland! I guess the shipping routes are not as friendly or cost effective???? Maybe someone from the UAE could ship there? I understand there's some tax savings from import and export...but I'm not that deep in the weeds (yet) into international container shipping.
Hey Brian, what does the top switch on the left do?
I don't think it does anything on this plane. There's MODE on the one side, and the other side just isn't used on this plane, in the RTF.
BrianPhillipsRC Hey, Camera Crew! You are very cute! Stop not wanting to be on camera!
BrianPhillipsRC
This design is likely to have a good glide ratio. It should be fun to reach high altitude and stall the motor and do free fall, glide, spin, etc. Have you tried them?
Hey Brian, don't tell us she is flying first time!!! If it is, she is a better flying pilot than you 😁 Andrew is an awesome pilot too👍👍👍
That's not her first time flying. She doesn't fly very often ;)
Hey Brian, what protocol is this bird using? Just wondering if I can bind it to my opentx Tx
I actually don't know...I thought it was FHSS, but I guess I don't know now that you ask.
Hey Dude how is the PPG flying going. Am a flexwing trike pilot from OZ. Was excited for your new adventures.
We have lots of footage from the PRE-season, and we'll be sharing it soon.
I got my 10th flight and first flight here in Central Iowa, with a friend who has a good site and tons of experience, but I ended up forgetting to get out of the seat, and sprained both ankles on the landing, and face planted. Helmet kept me totally safe (would have probably been fine without, btw) and ZERO damage to anything on the rig, except my right ankle was pretty bad. It's almost better now (1 month on Sunday) but it's been so crazy around here with WIND, and only maybe 3-4 serious opportunities to fly anyway, and I was working at those times ;( sooooo, just in a bit of a holding pattern on the flying, and preparing the flying sight more and more. Noticed the 15 foot wind sock? We have three of them now, and we've been working fences to get then in good condition or considering removing them. Also been working with the electric utility and THOUGHT we had it worked out, but I missed a one line note that meant another $10,000 cost to us, so we're trying to see about getting that part worked out too.
Anyway, more footage is coming ;)
We didn't fiml flight 10, and probably won't until I have more of the "jitters" out, OR we have expert help HERE for filming...I.E. I can fly and totally concentrate, and Megan can film while I have EXPERT advice piped into my helmet / walkie-talkie.
So much is ready, if conditions were good (but they aren't), I could go and be flying in 15 minutes or less.
Thanks Brian,
Great information, I bought this plane and looking forward to getting out and flying it.
Looks like you have a great place to fly your rc's. The PPG looks like that would be a lot fun also flying over those farm fields.
BrianPhillipsRC Can you Custom Configure equipment? Of course, for a fee?
so, what are we gonna do with all these foamies in September when the remote id rule hits?
The same thing we're doing now. There's already RID modules that are available for $50-100, but that presupposes that the FAA had the time, manpower, and efficacy to do anything about it...keep flying in the most free place on the planet. Also, they've pushed things back in the past, and they will probably do it again, and if not, oh well...not gonna change much of anything here. I agree, it's gonna make things potentially harder, but what are we gonna do - fight a civil war over RID? The more reasonable approach would be using the simple act of civil disobedience by the "Governed" as an assertion of the RIGHT to what we're doing. We need to put these bureaucrats in their place, but to best way to do it is to just fly. The FAA is in the wrong, and any sane minded individual will see that. I just don't want to be the "test case" for the Feds.
Anyway, I don't talk about this publicly, since we have so much to lose, and the Feds have unlimited resources, OURS, STOLEN from us, to use against us, so I just keep my nose clean, and FLY.
@@BrianPhillipsRC that's a very reasonable standpoint, my concern is more for the market, as it will be seriously impacted when their products are made illegal to use for their intended purpose without a 40% cost increase... There are easy star clones with stabilization for $130... a $50 RID on one of them, that weighs less than a goose, is just ridiculous... alas, I am preaching to the choir. This creates a large barrier to entry and ultimately stymies competition and new product development... Time will tell.
How do you decide what get reviews? Suppliers? You and the camera crew? Viewers?
We work hard to keep the pipeline full, meaning we just want to have 3-5 boxes there and ready for when we have windows of opportunity. Sometimes we request specific items, and other times they send what they want to send, more often the latter. I want some planes that we never get, and we get some planes I never wanted...so it's kind of a double edged sward. I love doing this, but this is one of the very large compromises of the process for me...my time gets used on projects that might not have been a first choice for me personally, but I end up experiencing, and having a deeper knowledge of the current inventory of aircraft available on the market, and thus become a better reviewer for you guys watching. After all, we've *TRIED* to make this channel not just about what I like, but about what the audience NEEDS to get nudged into the hobby, past a technical/skill holdup, or just deeper into the sport...and also helping them to decided between choices, while not necessarially talk someone into a purchase they have zero interest in.
That all being said, we try to tailor our content to what our audience might like, and I use my personal preferences to gauge what you guys MIGHT like, since I'm basically my target audience - youth to middle age male(s) who loves toys but who has REAL responsibilities that keep them from doing what they might love to be doing and is desperate for some time that they can give their 100% focus for short bursts of ethical excitement...and totally new pilots too...we don't mean to diminish the diversity of our reach here either, but just that's who I'm assuming would be watching, and we try to tailor our message to those people...buyers, but not just for that reason, we also want to grow our reach, so we have more pull with the different RC companies that help make this channel possible. We don't want to run a channel for KIDS (exclusively), because they're the benefactors of their parents spending choices, and there's already so much of that out there already. I want to speak straight to the guy or gal who's making the spending decisions...the one who's working hard and makes good money, and has to be responsible, spending the vast, VAST majority on his or her family, and not necessarially in the pursuit of their own dreams. We want to help those people maximize their experience. We want to help people sort through the insane amounts of garbage out there, and try to guide them to the "Better" options.
And yes, Megan and I do work together to make some of these decisions on what to take on, but more often than not, this is one of my principle responsibilities, and also one of the hardest parts of this work - dealing with our suppliers. It is 100%, hands down, the hardest part of this job (Aside from dealing with trolls online - that is terrible!). Also, when you work REALLY hard for a long time, like years and years, it's hard to think how fragile this whole thing really is...so we have to try our best to bring our "A" game all the time...it's definitely not without many "heated" debates between Megan and I, not that this wouldn't happen in another family business. We just feel like we're working through endless challenges. It's not "harder" than my day job, but it's more weighty to me, and it's getting to be harder, as my day job gets easier with almost 2 decades of experience now...we want this thing to make it...we want to see it to it's full potential...we both have so much of ourselves invested in it, and we want to get it where it needs to be.
Thanks for being here. Hope this answers your quesiton.
@@BrianPhillipsRC was that was the short answer🤣🤣🤣. I love the channel. I feel frustrated sometimes not with you, but lack of content on certain planes I’m interested in. Example would be Flightlines OV-10. Lots of videos of them flying, but only a few of real reviews. Same thing with Flex Rv-8 60. You have spoiled your viewers for good content. I wanna know wtf before I pay my money.
That thing is extremely noisy. Not sure if I could fly it at my local park. It seems as though a lot of these "beginner" planes are very noisy. Same with the aeroscout, can anything be done about that? Which plane is better? The prodigy or the aeroscout?
I've noticed a lot of pushers ARE quite noisy, and not sure why we haven't seen a QUITE prop yet...probably just a cost thing.
Brian, do you think a guy could unhook the speaker on that radio?
Yes! Almost certainly. Now, will it be some SMD Chip - possibly, LOL ;)
@@BrianPhillipsRC Never thought of that. It's a good possibility that it's a chip. Thanks.
Ok a question: arrows Trekker, prodigy, or aeroscout. Which is best in wind between aeroscout and trekker
That's a good question.
I would rank the AeroScout 1.1m ( AeroScout bit.ly/30MNn1c ) slightly higher than the Prodigy ( Prodigy RTF bit.ly/37zJxzt | Prodigy PNP bit.ly/3MiMeUB ) / Treker ( Trekker RTF bit.ly/34jhgLZ | PNP bit.ly/35xOPu8 ), but only because of the big wheels. This opens up a different and helpful experience.
That being said, I like all three. The Trekker would be MY first pick to fly right now, since it's most REAL looking. I like and appreciate scale looks, but they all have their strengths and weaknesses...and they will all stand up to wind, but any tri cycle with small wheels, like the Trekker, will NEED a runway, and will need to land straight (ish) down the runway, whereas the other two, the AeroScout and Prodogy both can fly in a windy day AND be landed in any direction due to their gear/belly landing style.
Good luck with your decision!
Thanks Brian , that is what I was thinking!!! Decision made! Any idea if Aeroscout will go on sale?
Can you use a 3S 2200 50c battery? if you use 30 ESC. without a stabiliser.
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thanks ;)
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It's a good plane!
I just bought this. It says you can use up to 2200 mA m 25c. I see you put in a 1300 30c and was wondering if a 2200 30c would be OK in this.
Should be fine. Just get your CG worked out, and you'll be fine.
I fly mine exclusively on 2200mah 3s. I position the battery to the front of the battery tray and it flies beautifully. I get 10 to 15 minute flight times flying on half throttle most of the time
@@mrlemonadesandwich I flew it on the 2200 3s and yea the cg is better. I was just concerned about the 20 amp esc being able to handle it.
All the other planes I use the 2200 battery on have 30 amp esc's
@@RPSchonherr the voltage is still the same between the 1300 and 2200 mah packs so the current draw is identical. The only additional work the ESC has to handle is propelling a slightly heavier plane for slightly longer. I have over 20 flights on my Prodigy with the 2200 with no problems. The fuselage is very well vented so the ESC recieves excellent cooling
I wish they would offer just the plane!
they do, the pnp is only $129. If you dont want to use the vector you dont have to.
@@theoztreecrasher2647 speak the queens english please I dont understand illiterate
Prodigy RTF bit.ly/37zJxzt | Prodigy PNP bit.ly/3MiMeUB
Way to go Andrew and Megan. Brian you need more work on your camera skills. Haha
Thanks ;)
New wind sock ?
yeah, how about a link Brian? I like that streamer sock
yes ;)
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looking for the best beginner plane under $250
this one?
BEST plane under $250? Honestly, probably not. For an absolute first plane? Are you looking for RTF (ready to fly)?
I'd look at...
AeroScount 1.1m RTF - bprc.me/AeroScout
Apprentice STOL RTF - bprc.me/Apprentice
Apprentice 1.2 RTF - bprc.me/Apprentice (slightly over $250, but bigger plane)
PA-18 1300mm RTF - bprc.me/FMS_PA18
Ranger 1220mm RTF - bprc.me/FMS_Ranger
Those would be "better" planes (in my opinion) than the Prodigy. You can see all of our beginner plane recommendations here... www.brianphillipsrc.com/beginnerplanes
How much those is it??
There's a link in the video description. The price is less for the PNP and more for the RTF.
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Hummm....I have no idea, but glad you're having a good time!