FASST testing in a controlled noise environment

Putting FASST up against the Airhorn frequency generator from www.nutsaboutnets.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• FASST
• FLYING
• GIANTS
• KIWI

[ruiruivo83]

sooo, is it better than the FM radio or not?

[FlightlessKiwi2]

Well there's no doubt that the answer is yes. Having watched 500 pilots at an event fly for 1 week and see only one lost plane due to radio issue (cause unknown) and it wasn't FASST clearly shows the advances 2.4 is bringing to the hobby. 9As many as 14 aircraft in the air at once was not uncommon) However in 5 years time we will likely look back and say how primitive these current systems are to what's on the drawing board for the future. I like it and its my preferred system today.

[FirewallAndFlush]

Futaba and hitech seem to be winning the 2.4g battle at the moment every other radio brand ive seen sofar has an issue or two that puts me off

[GHOSTRIDERNOMAD]

This system is fantastic , programming the fail safe is very easy to set up , and to one of the comments any 2.4 is going to be better than an FM radio. Always remember that you can prove anything you want with testing if you choose the results that you get . It is if your un bios in your providing the test results. I believe that the Futaba radios have been very reliable and long life units !

[Habib4226]

Take the radio down the street and repeat the test to see what happens.

[blackmuzzle]

To follow up with my own comment here, I can happily report that I lost *no* plane to radio interference in one and a half seasons of flying. Not even a glitch. The problem I referred to above was very likely a broken power connector.

After over a year of flying, watching colleagues left and right drop out of the sky on 35 MHz, and two of my clubmates sending back their XPS systems due to frequent, unexplained lock-outs, I can say that this system has really given me confidence while flying.

[blackmuzzle]

Excellent work, thanks for your effort. I have to say that I had a crash for unknown reasons (complete loss of control for approx. 5 seconds) with a Futaba Fasst and a R617FS receiver, but I am not sure whether this was a power issue, or maybe just a broken receiver.

I got a flight logger now and will do extensive tests with that particular receiver, so next time it happens I'll be sure as to the cause. So far, FASST has even survived my 3W video transmitter test ;)