This month, most of the emails I've recieved have been asking about the Synergy and what are my thoughts compared to other helicopters I've flown.  Finally I got around to writing the comparison article I'd been promising.  I'll be interested to see what the reaction is to this article, if any.  Based upon some of the comments I've read on the internet, you could be forgiven for thinking the N9 was the second coming of whatever particular God you might worship.

It's not.  But neither is any helicopter.  Every machine has it's flaws and I can tell you that the Synergy sure has a couple.  But to their credit, Synergy R/C have identified a couple of issues and are actively doing something about it.  There's still a few more things that really need to be tidied up on it, but for a first run at designing a machine, it's pretty good.  But remember, it won't make you fly any better just because you bought it! 

Read the article and come to your own conclusions.  One thing is for sure, the 90 size market has never been as good as it is now, with the Vibe, Stratus, Synergy, Raptor and the imminent arrival of the CarbonXtreme Aurora, it's going to be on for young and old!

In other news, I've been flying my T-Rex a lot lately down at the park now that summer is just about here.  Nothing sharpens up the reflexes like dealing with the randomness of a T-Rex!  I've started documenting some of the changes and experiences I've had with the T-Rex to try and help out other T-Rex users.

Christmas is coming up in a couple of months and I'll be heading back to New Zealand to see my family and also participate in the National F3C Championships where I'm looking forward to catching up with some of my old flying mates back home.  Then it'll be straight back to Australia for the Australian Nationals in the first week of January.

SITE UPGRADE
After the last newsletter I set to work upgrading the whole website.  I didn't realise just how many pages are in this site until I had to go through each one individually!

While it looks pretty much the same as it always has, the way in which it works behind the scenes has drastically changed.  I've pretty much rebuilt the whole thing from scratch using current technologies which is similar to taking an old car, removing the engine and chassis, and installing a current generation one.  This will allow me to incorporate more features in the future.

2007 F3C WORLD CHAMPS
Finally, the official website for the 2007 World Champs in Poland has been announced.  Click Here for more details.  It looks like it's taking place in August again.

NEW JR RADIO?
There's been talk around the campfire lately of JR's long awaited competitor to the 14MZ.  It sounds like there could be more fact that rumour in those talks now after a recent Hobby Fair in Japan.  I have no other information on what features it has at this stage.  Hopefully assignable switches and multi-type models (planks and helis) can be run on the transmitter :).

Pilot Locator
The Pilot Locator has continued to grow in popularity since the last newsletter with it still rating second most popular section of littlerotors.com. Make sure your details are up-to-date! The pilot locator can be found at www.littlerotors.com/findapilot/

Market
The Buy/Sell Market has been growing also. It should be noted that this section will accept postings from all over the world, not just New Zealand. List your items free of charge! See the market at www.littlerotors.com/market/

Articles this issue are:

Synergy Follow Up
After a couple of months living with the Synergy N9, I've flown it (and fixed it) enough to develop an opinion...  Click here

Fun with T-Rexes
Summer is coming and nothing marks the arrival of summer than after work T-Rexing. I've fired up Tiny the T-Rex lately on the quest to find a reliable T-Rex combination that is easy to fix and flies well.   Click here

Feel free to contact me at simon@littlerotors.com at any time.

Si