After a long & eventful life the mighty Bixler 2 Sport has had yet another makeover.
With all the other planes in my menagerie the poor old Bix 2 has not been getting much airtime of late.
We have a couple of our yachty friends looking to dabble into flying so thought that the Bix may just as well get pressed back into service as the club, oops – group trainer, afterall most of the current flyers at the field learnt to fly on her & the buddy box originally.
I have removed the FY-41AP Lite autopilot/stabiliser as, these days given that she is not flying FPV, its a bit of an overkill. Installed a new ZOHD Kopilot and RadioMaster Rx with flight battery monitoring so that has stabiliser, return to home & Flight battery voltage all covered without the need for any FPV.
The new setup is way lighter so Ill need to check the COG and give her a bit of fine tuning and then she should be good to start her new (old) role.
Set the Taranis up as the Master radio and the Jumper T16 as the Slave radio and bench testing suggests it all works as should be.
So Dave, next time you are venturing down to the field just let me know before hand & I will bring the trainer along for you to try.
Even added some “L” plates for you !!
