Hitec Aurora 9X Review

The Aurora 9X

When you first power on the model you get this confirmation screen. If you only want to program, and not control the model then you can select no and no signal will be sent out.

This is the home screen that you will see every time you power up. It has more than enough information, with model name, trims, telemetry, battery percent or voltage, timers, flight conditions, and whether you're transmitting or not.

The programming menu is more than adequate with one and a half pages of everything you would need.

This is the menu where you can change the transmitting protocol. Shown are the maxima and S.L.T. protocols, but there is also the minima/optima protocol.

These are the system management menus with preferences and which warnings you want displayed on start-up.

Flight conditions on the Aurora 9X give you almost unlimited options of what you want mixed and which switches the commands are assigned to. Shown are my gliders flight conditions, each being able to be activated at different times.

The design of the Aurora 9X is very pleasing to the eye and is high quality. The rubber grips add a lot of grip to the remote, so there is no fear of dropping it if you don't use a neck strap. Also, there is a vibrator underneath the left grip, which you can program in the radio to go off for timers and other things. And as you can see, there is now an integrated module unlike the old Aurora 9.

The Maxima 9 receiver for the Aurora 9X utilizes the remotes super low latency of 7ms. This can be compared to lots of other remotes that i see, which are around 22ms. However, you can only use digital seros with this receiver.

The remote also comes with a battery power pack, a squishy foam receiver protector/antivibration, a heavy duty receiver switch with charging cable, and a screen cleaner for the transmitter's touch screen.