Full House Glider OpenTX

Here is a full house setup for my Phoenix 2000, Taranis QX7, OpenTX 2.2.4 2019-07-12

Full span and normal ailerons
Crow braking with Elevator compensation
Full span camber adjustment

Connections
Ch1 Aileron Left
Ch2 Aileron Right
Ch3 Throttle
Ch4 Elelvator
Ch5 Rudder
Ch6 Flap Left
Ch7 Flap Right

Note that I have modded my Taranis QX7 to use the S1 knob as a left side slider, and swapped the momentary switch to the left side.

Mixes
> S1 operates Flaps down to the middle indent, then Crow braking from the middle to full down.
> Elevator compensation is set at zero weight and should be adjusted as required (My P2K pitches up with Crow activated so I needed -15% weight)
> SC up gives normal ailerons, then "not up" activates full span ailerons (and increased adverse yaw)
> SB adds full span camber in two steps
> SF up is the throttle cut

OTX model file here - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QASpvvFY4mXdxKkhcV9NFY3wM9fXfIWo

Phoenix 2000 sloper mods

The 2m Hobby King Phoenix 2000 was designed to be a motor thermal glider, but it works very well as a motor-less slope soarer.

Soren from Denmark, speedsterDEN on YouTube, has some amazing videos of sloping and dynamic soaring with this very cheap glider.


Slope soaring is fairly rough on foam gliders due to the rough and often uncontrolled landings.

The Phoenix has a tough plastic fuselage which is perfect for the job. However the wing and tail need some strengthening mods to help keep it in one piece.

My flap control horns pulled through the foam after a few flights so I added ID card plastic reinforcing to spread the load.

The wing is supplied with bolts and plastic caps to secure to the fuselage. These tore through the thin foam around the rear mounting bolt after a few rough slope landings. I decided to change to a rubber band tie-down mounting method for more durability. The wings were glued and taped together permanently.







I drilled 5mm holes in the fuselage to fit the CF tie-down rods. No reinforcing in this area is needed. The rods are held in place with hot glue.

Here is the wing securely held in place with rubber bands.

Below are videos explaining these mods and showing some flights.

Sloping along the sand

Sloping from the dune