Gordysoar Wrote: > If you'd all just start using your Talking Timers wheny you 'practice' > and have a landing task set up like the zone that will be at your next > contest. > > Its interesting when an RES wooden RES ship like the Big Birdy, > Marauder, Grand Esprit or the like, whips up on the entire field of > super moldies.... > > Keep in mind that houses fly just fine in Kansas without digital > servos, computer radios and 2.4 gigglehurts stuff. > > Launch, find a thermal, stay in it for 10mins and land on the 100 > spot. > > While you guys are looking at scopes the top guys are looking at their > model's tails, and using their left thumbs MORE than their rights. > > Here's a question, can the Flash move his thumb faster than the pulses > of a 2.4 module system can reach the surfaces? > > Gordy
Did you enjoy that post Gordy :) While I agree that taking your contest tasks seriously will always make you a better pilot the post was originally started on the topic of latency. The same well practiced pilot may actually find that a lower latency system will actually give him a overall "better" connection to his model in subtle yet discernable ways that a 72 MHz and or a "modulized" 2.4 GHz system may not. The argument that humans are not able to perceive the difference between 30 MS and 70 MS in a single event does not account for the fact that an average flight consists of hundreds of control inputs. String these together and you may be able to glean the difference. In fact this is what pilots are already reporting. This argument is a lot like the past FPS argument in the videogame industry. It was thought that the human eye can't really benefit from a video image produced of frames per second higher than 32 FPS. We know now that a video processor capable of 250 FPS can throw in more detail and visual data and give this useful data to the player. Today you will not find a single video card capped at anything close to 32 fps. What is the connection here? Just like a video game player taking in all of the small details on his 250 FPS video experience the new breed of 2.4 GHz TX may be able to give a new slightly better connection and feedback to the user. If you doubt this then try flying a house at the next contestÂ….I think you might appreciate the connection I am speaking to. In short this sport has advanced with small incraments over the years that adds up to amazing performance. Few would go back now. 30MS as compared to 70 MS is a small incrament and one day we will look back at this latency issue and wonder how we ever flew on anything more than 10 MS latency. -- webbsolution ------------------------------------------------------------------------ webbsolution's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=164801 View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=856574 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
