Onawing
Heliman
Location: Honolulu, HI
| Intermittent radio glitches had been bothering my Raptor with the OPTIC6 radio for a while. Checked everything, could not isolate any mechanical source for the sudden mid-flight twitching. Then it happened just as the heli was taking off, suddenly pitched backwards at a few inches off the ground, tail rotor hit, boom strike, trashed boom, blades, flybar, etc.
A few days later my electric ECO heli started the exact same twitching, for the first time in 30 flights.
The only common component between the two was the transmitter, an Optic 6. Went to hitecrcd.com to read up about this unit, and found lots of similar glitching experiences in the forum.
Needless to say, lost all confidence in this radio, and Hitec. How can I in good conscience sell this transmitter, even if Hitec services it? They obviously supplied it in defective condition in the first place.
I'd like to think that not all Optic 6s have this problem, but I'm not about to risk a $1,000 heli finding out which ones are good, and which are not.
In the trash it goes. |
ex hitec customer for life!
