No I don’t have a glider. I have a couple of older foamies that I recently started flying again. A Park Zone Stryker and a Hyperion Reno Racer. I want to get a new foamy soon and after seeing your video I’m very interested. May I ask where you are flying? It’s very beautiful.
@@treytaylor7553 if you want to get one please use my link www.fmshobby.com/FeYKZYrJINBwLe FMS does some awesome planes now 😍😍 I fly in Vosges mountains in France 😍
Arthur which glider of this size do you think has the best quality servos, nylon hinges and wing rigidity? I had this but the aileron plastic servo stripped. I liked how stiff the wings were though. Is the multiplex Lentus just as rigid? Thanks
@ArthurRC thanks mate. Think I'll go for the fms Fox 3m then. Plan is to stick a 90mm edf on top like I did with my Kavan Swift. Problem with the Kavan is the wings are very bendy during flight and it oscillates like mad. Atleast the Fox has 27g metal servos and nylon hinges. Just its heavy!
Hi Arthur, Thanks for the awesome videos, one question, In your opining which one is a better thermal glider between Asw17, Asw28 and others? Thanks, Carlos
Hello Arthur. Juste pour partager avec la communauté ASW-17. l'ESC est malheureusement potentiellement exposé dans sa soute inférieure du fuselage. J'ai malheureusement eu un atterro un peu humide il y a qq jours. Résultat perte de puissance côté moteur. Moins de la moitié de puissance. Sans doute un composant cramé (condensateur ou autre) suite léger court-circuit lié à mon atterro en zone humide. Mon diagnostic initial était donc le bon. ESC neuf en place. Soute d'accueil sous fuselage sécurisée contre les projections. Ça devrait le faire au prochain décollage👍. J'espère car malgré ses bobos😅 je le kiffe ❤grave mon planeur.🎉 JPhilippe
Hi Arthur, great flying my friend. Did you use any flap to elevator mix as well. Mine dives when I add flaps to try and slow it down for landing. I followed the CG recommendations as per the manual as well
Rates (my low / book’s low / my high) : - Aileron 10/12/30mm - Elevator 7/10/10mm - Rudder 20mm - Flaps (thermal) on a slider : 3/5mm (down 0.5mm elevator compensation) - Butterfly on a slider : flaps -45mm, ailerons +14mm, elevator -5mm - Speed mode with 10% offset down elevator - Thermal mode with 1mm down flaps
Not so thermal weather. The best low-altitude thermal will be above the concrete runway :) And it wouldn't obligatiry lift you, but hold afloat for a long time. 1 battery = 1 hour. And being too high you risk to loose your glider, it will lift it "with ends".
@@ArthurRC Hi Arthur, there was a moment when I thought that it might be curious for you to slightly undiscover a curtain, what a dude of 51 from Kyiv, Ukraine, has in his RC fleet. I develop my fleet (for 15 years?) around the 2200 3s batteries, to make them interchangeable. For the moment, not counting the past models, they are: 1) H-King Bixler 3 with Arkbird flight controller and FPV system. It was my first step to FPV and controller-assisted flight. It was my first plane that actually flown well. Stands several years without move. 2) Sonic (Yuki) Modell Pilatus B-4 glider Fast small aerobatic glider, severely broken, glued, broken again, glued with icecream sticks, has unfortunate fate. Flies intersting, I use flaperons, and it truly floats with them. Utilizes 3s batteries, 1100 and 1500. 3) Joysway Dragonfly (variant of the Polaris and H-King Skipper) floatplane A delta-wing floatplane, promised to be very successful, but have been broken every flight, glued back, flies instable. Its's like a phoenix bird, every time rizes from ashes. 4) Lander Polaris Ultra (AKA H-King Skipper XL) floatplane Designed like a previous, but bigger, big stable "flying iron", in one piece yet, fears the wind due to a huge wing area. Makes aerobatics simple and boring. Could fly very slow. Could glide on landing. A very interesting high-alfa flyer, you can mimic Space-Shuttle-like motorless landing. 5) Volantex Phoenix V2 2000 (glider, my favorite) I have plenty of flying with her, it's the most problem-free flyer I have. A blow-molded (not foam) fuselage, very stiff and impact-resistant (this is a common feature for most of the Volantex planes). It's the most versatile plane: glides, flies with motor, flies without motor, makes aerobatics, flies fast, flies slow, thermals, slopes etc. Gives a time to fix a piloting mistake, but is fast enough to be interesting. Doesn't fear the wind. For this price ($150?), has a very good pre-balanced folding prop. Collapses to the native box. Could be transported in the small car. Probably, a good first model for an accurate pilot. 6) TechOne Neptune EDF (flying wing, my favorite) A "jet for beginners". Flies aerobatics, but also floats well, could thermal, slope, and do-everything else. Hard-to-land as it loves to float and has no spoilers. EDF is "on the roof", doesn't gather debris. Doesn't collapse at all, demands all the rear seat of my KIA cee'd. Probably, a good first model. 7) FliteTest Grumman Widgeon (two-prop floatplane, semiscale, historical) Prone to stall, needs to maintain enough speed. Very powerful, resembes me an old Americam car with high torque from the start. You press an accelerator and fly away. I call it "a half-quad with a little amount of wings", it flies like a helicopter "on the props". The counter-rotating props compensate their torque, and it's very convenient. I love gliders and planes that float, but it's not the case. It always rides on the motors. 8) Reptile Dragon I Didn't fly yet, one time I dreamt about a long-range FPV, but then I spent money for "visual" models without any regret. Probably, a good park-flyer, but now I can't check this due to the wartime. Will be sold. Or flown like a park-flyer after the victory. 9) Parrot Disco (French origin!) Before the war, it filmed very beautiful and long FPV-adventures for me. Waits for the end of the war. 10) XK X-450 convertoplane. Have check it in living room only. Promises to be very good and fast aerobatic plane with self-stabilization. Radio I use is a FlySky FS-i6, a very cheap, simple, high-quality, long range, reliable radio, which I don't want to change for any another yet. A simple receiver mod give me an on-board battery voltage. And we are flying at the meadow there: maps.app.goo.gl/a9kcufxDF5oP8YQ19
El FMS ASW-17 es un excelente planeador eléctrico de Foam, el único que pudiera compararse es el Volantex ASW-28. En la medida de 2.5 mts aprox esos serían los mejores. De todas maneras, estimo que en Foam el mejor planeador existente en el mercado es el Conscendo Evolution de 1.5 mt. de Horizon Hobby
Fly it enough and you’ll find out it has some severe design flaws! Attach the horizontal stabilizer with a screw or glue. It WILL slide forward in a power dive and you will lose all pitch control. The wing locking pins are very brittle and prone to breaking. Lastly reinforce all the control hinges. Happy flying
Beautiful scenery! Nice foamy glider. Looks very stable!!
Thanks mate… 🙏🏻🙏🏻 that’s a very cool glider yeah ! Do you have one?
No I don’t have a glider. I have a couple of older foamies that I recently started flying again. A Park Zone Stryker and a Hyperion Reno Racer. I want to get a new foamy soon and after seeing your video I’m very interested. May I ask where you are flying? It’s very beautiful.
@@treytaylor7553 if you want to get one please use my link www.fmshobby.com/FeYKZYrJINBwLe
FMS does some awesome planes now 😍😍
I fly in Vosges mountains in France 😍
What a beautiful sight to see that plane with that background! Absolutely remarkable! Once again you’ve amazed me with your skill and versatility!
You’re so kind my friend thanks a lot I really appreciate that 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🥰
very nice. i love watching thermal hunting.
Thanks buddy 🙏🏻🥰
6:07 pulling some Gs! Dayum! :D
Haha yes you can pull G 🥳🤩
Hello, belle journée ensoleillée, top pour du planeur dans un chouette paysage 😊
Ah ça oui je suis chanceux d’habiter ici 🥰 et c’était en octobre il faisait beau pour une fois 😁😁
Arthur which glider of this size do you think has the best quality servos, nylon hinges and wing rigidity? I had this but the aileron plastic servo stripped. I liked how stiff the wings were though. Is the multiplex Lentus just as rigid? Thanks
Lentus is less rigid because that’s more a sailplane, but in foam gliders you’ll find the same cheap servos unfortunately…
@ArthurRC thanks mate. Think I'll go for the fms Fox 3m then. Plan is to stick a 90mm edf on top like I did with my Kavan Swift. Problem with the Kavan is the wings are very bendy during flight and it oscillates like mad. Atleast the Fox has 27g metal servos and nylon hinges. Just its heavy!
@@M4rkmcc21 ah ok that’s cool ! Sound funny 🥳🥰
Hi Arthur,
Thanks for the awesome videos, one question, In your opining which one is a better thermal glider between Asw17, Asw28 and others?
Thanks,
Carlos
Hi and thanks for your comment 😊 I think the best thermal is the multiplex Lentus and then Eflite night radian
Hello. Merci Arthur pour cette vidéo. Après 4 mois d'arrêt, je vais bientôt faire redécoller le mien en plaine. Hâte de le refaire voler 🙂
Avec plaisir 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😇 éclate toi bien avec le tien alors 🥰🤩
Merci comme toujours Arthur, une idée de cadeau pour mon anniversaire et reprise des vols si tout va bien dans deux semaines.
Haaaaa genial ça 😂🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Hello Arthur.
Juste pour partager avec la communauté ASW-17.
l'ESC est malheureusement potentiellement exposé dans sa soute inférieure du fuselage.
J'ai malheureusement eu un atterro un peu humide il y a qq jours.
Résultat perte de puissance côté moteur. Moins de la moitié de puissance.
Sans doute un composant cramé (condensateur ou autre) suite léger court-circuit lié à mon atterro en zone humide.
Mon diagnostic initial était donc le bon.
ESC neuf en place.
Soute d'accueil sous fuselage sécurisée contre les projections.
Ça devrait le faire au prochain décollage👍. J'espère car malgré ses bobos😅 je le kiffe ❤grave mon planeur.🎉
JPhilippe
Ah bien vu la sécurisation contre l’eau 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Le casse pas,il sera bientôt a moi!!😂😂😂😂
Il appartient déjà à un autre pilote depuis vendredi dernier désolé 😂🙈
Arthur great flying. Jeff in LA USA
Oh thanks a lot my friend 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Vous avez des admiratrices coooool 😂
Hahaha 🙏🏻😇
WHERE ARE YOU FLYING AT? BEAUTIFUL SITE!! NICE VIDEO MAHALO!🌴
In vosges mountains 🥰 thanks a lot mate 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I bet its a lot less stressful than flying the Django! It has a lot of nice features, like quick connect wings with plugs.
Yes it’s not stressful at all 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 but the Django is another dimension 🥰
Hi Arthur, great flying my friend. Did you use any flap to elevator mix as well. Mine dives when I add flaps to try and slow it down for landing. I followed the CG recommendations as per the manual as well
Hi ! Just look my description, I wrote every rates and flaps settings Shaun 😁👍🏻👍🏻
Rates (my low / book’s low / my high) :
- Aileron 10/12/30mm
- Elevator 7/10/10mm
- Rudder 20mm
- Flaps (thermal) on a slider : 3/5mm (down 0.5mm elevator compensation)
- Butterfly on a slider : flaps -45mm, ailerons +14mm, elevator -5mm
- Speed mode with 10% offset down elevator
- Thermal mode with 1mm down flaps
Not so thermal weather. The best low-altitude thermal will be above the concrete runway :) And it wouldn't obligatiry lift you, but hold afloat for a long time. 1 battery = 1 hour. And being too high you risk to loose your glider, it will lift it "with ends".
Haha yes buddy I know gliders very well 🥳😇
@@ArthurRC Hi Arthur,
there was a moment when I thought that it might be curious for you to slightly undiscover a curtain, what a dude of 51 from Kyiv, Ukraine, has in his RC fleet. I develop my fleet (for 15 years?) around the 2200 3s batteries, to make them interchangeable. For the moment, not counting the past models, they are:
1) H-King Bixler 3
with Arkbird flight controller and FPV system. It was my first step to FPV and controller-assisted flight. It was my first plane that actually flown well. Stands several years without move.
2) Sonic (Yuki) Modell Pilatus B-4 glider
Fast small aerobatic glider, severely broken, glued, broken again, glued with icecream sticks, has unfortunate fate. Flies intersting, I use flaperons, and it truly floats with them. Utilizes 3s batteries, 1100 and 1500.
3) Joysway Dragonfly (variant of the Polaris and H-King Skipper) floatplane
A delta-wing floatplane, promised to be very successful, but have been broken every flight, glued back, flies instable. Its's like a phoenix bird, every time rizes from ashes.
4) Lander Polaris Ultra (AKA H-King Skipper XL) floatplane
Designed like a previous, but bigger, big stable "flying iron", in one piece yet, fears the wind due to a huge wing area. Makes aerobatics simple and boring. Could fly very slow. Could glide on landing. A very interesting high-alfa flyer, you can mimic Space-Shuttle-like motorless landing.
5) Volantex Phoenix V2 2000 (glider, my favorite)
I have plenty of flying with her, it's the most problem-free flyer I have. A blow-molded (not foam) fuselage, very stiff and impact-resistant (this is a common feature for most of the Volantex planes). It's the most versatile plane: glides, flies with motor, flies without motor, makes aerobatics, flies fast, flies slow, thermals, slopes etc. Gives a time to fix a piloting mistake, but is fast enough to be interesting. Doesn't fear the wind. For this price ($150?), has a very good pre-balanced folding prop. Collapses to the native box. Could be transported in the small car. Probably, a good first model for an accurate pilot.
6) TechOne Neptune EDF (flying wing, my favorite)
A "jet for beginners". Flies aerobatics, but also floats well, could thermal, slope, and do-everything else. Hard-to-land as it loves to float and has no spoilers. EDF is "on the roof", doesn't gather debris. Doesn't collapse at all, demands all the rear seat of my KIA cee'd. Probably, a good first model.
7) FliteTest Grumman Widgeon (two-prop floatplane, semiscale, historical)
Prone to stall, needs to maintain enough speed. Very powerful, resembes me an old Americam car with high torque from the start. You press an accelerator and fly away. I call it "a half-quad with a little amount of wings", it flies like a helicopter "on the props". The counter-rotating props compensate their torque, and it's very convenient. I love gliders and planes that float, but it's not the case. It always rides on the motors.
8) Reptile Dragon I
Didn't fly yet, one time I dreamt about a long-range FPV, but then I spent money for "visual" models without any regret. Probably, a good park-flyer, but now I can't check this due to the wartime. Will be sold. Or flown like a park-flyer after the victory.
9) Parrot Disco (French origin!)
Before the war, it filmed very beautiful and long FPV-adventures for me. Waits for the end of the war.
10) XK X-450 convertoplane. Have check it in living room only. Promises to be very good and fast aerobatic plane with self-stabilization.
Radio I use is a FlySky FS-i6, a very cheap, simple, high-quality, long range, reliable radio, which I don't want to change for any another yet. A simple receiver mod give me an on-board battery voltage.
And we are flying at the meadow there:
maps.app.goo.gl/a9kcufxDF5oP8YQ19
en effet belle région ... pas un peu lourd pour l'envergure ?? cela doit te changer du Sansibear 🙂
En effet un poil lourd mais ça passe sans problème…😁 ah oui le Django BS c’est un autre monde clairement 🥰🥰🥰
El FMS ASW-17 es un excelente planeador eléctrico de Foam, el único que pudiera compararse es el Volantex ASW-28. En la medida de 2.5 mts aprox esos serían los mejores. De todas maneras, estimo que en Foam el mejor planeador existente en el mercado es el Conscendo Evolution de 1.5 mt. de Horizon Hobby
Yeah maybe…I never tried the 1.5m from
Eflite 😇
Second! (Almost!)
🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s better than nothing 😘
@@ArthurRC Getting closer...!
AS GOOD AS IT MAY BE , THE E-FLITE RADIAN IS BY FAR THE BEST 2m FOAMY OUT THERE...jmo
Yes I agree for 2m wingspan 👍🏻👍🏻
Fly it enough and you’ll find out it has some severe design flaws! Attach the horizontal stabilizer with a screw or glue. It WILL slide forward in a power dive and you will lose all pitch control. The wing locking pins are very brittle and prone to breaking. Lastly reinforce all the control hinges. Happy flying
Well of course it’s not a performance glider for sure