Give the F-86 some room for a long roll out and keep the pressure light on the elevator, (above left) and it will give you a nice scale takeoff every
time. The landing gear can be removed (above right) for missions at the park or back yard. The model easily belly lands on grass.
Tactic AnyLink
Step one is to find a model sold by those brands that has the orange Tx-R logo af- fixed to its box. This means the model will fly with your transmitter because the receiver included is AnyLink ready. Next, the AnyLink module simply at-
taches to your transmitter with the includ- ed cables. For Spektrum and JR radios, a harness that plugs into the trainer port as well as the charge port (for power) is all that is needed. For Futaba, a simple harness that plugs into the transmitter’s trainer port is all that is needed to transmit the sig- nal. Once the AnyLink is plugged in and ac- tivated, think of it as a translator between your transmitter and new plane. For purposes of illustration, let’s say
the F-86 Tx-R receiver can “hear” in Eng- lish, while your transmitter transmits or “speaks” in German. Anylink becomes the translator; receiving the transmitter’s signal and translating it to the 2.4 GHz signal the Tx-R receiver understands. At the risk of admitting to be a Trekkie, it is essentially a universal translator. Now planes such as the new F-86 not
Gone are the days of excess transmitters. With AnyLink, virtually any transmitter can be used to fly the F-86 by Great Planes as well as other Tx-R models from Flyzone.
It wasn’t that long ago when we all Another problem of earlier micro mod-
purchased a radio system that was dedicated to one model only. Soon com- puter radios evolved and allowed us to store model memory and subsequently fly more aircraft with one transmitter. When micro models came along, many brands sold the model with their own proprietary electronics and transmitter. While this was certainly easier for the manufacturer, it made it hard for the modeler to store and remember which transmitter went with each plane.
FLYING MODELS
els was the fact that the included trans- mitter not only felt small and toy like, but it lacked the ability to dial in a plane with such things as expo. The R&D engineers at Hobbico, being modelers themselves, knew there had to be a better way and af- ter years of research and testing, the de- velopment of AnyLink was born. To put it simply, the Tactic brand AnyLink will al- low virtually any transmitter to send the required signal to its receiver in a Flyzone or Great Planes Tx-R model.
only benefit from control throws and expo, but as a modeler, we are using a transmitter we are familiar and comfort- able with. The AnyLink website says their module is compatible with virtually any transmitter. I encourage you to look up the list at
http://www.tx-ready.com/ The AnyLink comes with two harnesses that will work with most Futaba, Spek- trum and JR radios with more harnesses coming shortly. In fact as I write this, a harness for the Spektrum DX8 is being produced and will probably be ready by the time you are reading this. Gone are the days of living with bundles of loose, toy-like transmitters in our flight boxes! Gone are the days of flying an advanced micro model with a simple transmitter! Now we fly with our transmitters! Enter the new age of micro flying!
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