Apprentice RX in MF-22 Raptor

To the FliteTest Community;

One my students came to me with a great idea, "what would happen if we took out the receiver to our apprenitce and placed it in one of our scratch build planes?" "Would the SAFE technology still work with another style plane?"  Couldn't pass it up and whipped up a Raptor in one day and we were testing it the next.  The platform we choose was the Raptor, Colton's design, and we were guareented that the plane would fly perfect.  Placing the receiver was easy, just like any other receiver, placed it on a level part of the inside fuselage, hooked everything up to it, and it worked just like the apprentice.

We found no issues with the flight, and by the looks of it, I saw this receiver as a huge tool to train our students how to fly, especially with scratch builds when anything can happen.  We know that there is extra stabilization extension out there, however, the installment part could be a learning curve for the students.  They know how to install the electronics to a receiver, no problem, so having something like this would great.  This would also be great for teachers who wanted to start their own rc club with little experience in flying for the safe technology could help in this fear of flying.

When we had the students look up the price of the receiver from Eflite, we saw that it was 130$ dollars, high in price for a program of students, however, if Eflite can figure out how to sell the receiver at a lower price, this could be huge and easy for any incoming pilot with this hobby.

Now we are no experts, so if there is a receiver out there that can do the same thing without a huge price point, let us know!

Link to the Safe Receiver: http://secure.hobbyzone.com/search/EFLR310013.html 

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For more information please visit us at: www.mesarcfoamfighters.com

Colton's MF-22 Video: http://youtu.be/R_dOb5jp3jI  

MF-22 Plans: http://www.mesarcfoamfighters.com/#!plane-plans/ccb 

Marshall showing off how the Safe Technology is auto leveling the control surfaces of the plane.

Flies straight and true, very cool.