Radio-Active FrSky USA

  RSSI stands for 'Received Signal Strength Indicator."   If you own a Tandem, Twin or even the older Horus and Taranis  transmitters you can monitor RSSI telemetry. in real time.   What this means is that your receiver is sending back to the transmitter  information about link quality.  This is very useful, and also somewhat confusing.  People often ask me about values.  What seems right, what seems wrong, and why they vary? I get people asking me questions like this from time to time.   "On one of my flights the RSSI dropped down to 28, is this normal."   What I often ask them to do is give me a telemetry log file.  This gives me the total  flight in question and I can look at the all the parameters of the flight.  Typically I will find that RSSI drops momentarily to a low level but remains in pretty good levels for the majority of the flight.  The problem is that they get a RSSI low or RSSI cruc...

  Around five years ago I bought a new FrSky G-RX8 for a Horizon Hobby Radian.  I bound it up, put it in the plane and then lost signal and crashed it.  From the wreckage I pulled out this receiver and threw her into a box of spare FrSky parts, and there she sat for half a decade.  Newish, less than one flight. I missed a key step in the process which would have saved me a Radian fuselage.  This topic also answers the question as to what to do when you have someone gives you a few older FrSky receivers, or if you have some in planes you've been flying with since the Taranis days.  Can you use older FrSky receivers? Better question, should you? I am somewhat partial to the mid-fuselage pusher style planes. This is my favorite format for a hand launch glider. When I saw the ZOHD Drift come along a few years back my friends went crazy for them. I was skeptical.  Then this cool looking black one came along and I figured it may be worth trying. I managed to...