Guys. Time has come to start saving for this great radio that Futaba recently announced - 18MZ

http://www.rctech.com.tw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1694:futaba-t18mz&catid=42:2011-03-19-10-01-42&Itemid=100014

Looks like its got a camera, great resolution and telemetry built in !


I would love to have one of these !!!

HUGE NEWS from the Shizuoka trade show in Japan this week. Futaba announced the 18MZ transmitter! Six years ago the 14MZ was introduced and it redefined what a transmitter could do for the pilot. Now, the 18MZ redefines this once again. Welcome to the world's most advanced radio control transmitter! 18 channels, bidirectional FASSTest technology and a huge 640 x 240 LCD touch screen name just a few of its key features. Stay tuned for more details to come...

Is the camera for taking picture for model memory

There is a camera on this thing?

Can we also make phone calls with it? Can we surf the internet on it? 

Internet might be helpful to browse RCI and check out latest posts while on field.

Yeah i can show my landing skills to the whole rc world!......live! 

i could help show CRASHES live .... and HOW NOT TO FLY A PLANE...!!! 

....uh....thats what i meant in my earlier post...

If I start saving right now, may be i'll be able to rent it for a day 

will it serve me a beer and do my laundry ?

Quote from: augustinev on May 13, 2011, 12:28:26 PM
will it serve me a beer and do my laundry ?

Only if u are nice to it and compliment it on how it looks, once in a while

Seriously guys...sorry, i have very limited knowledge about this......but how and where do you use 18 channels?

if someone plans to make a eurocopter EC155 /  boeing 777 / adv jets.... with all moving parts like

landing gear, slats, two types of flaps, airbrakes, wheel brakes, wing sweep back, rev thruster, extra trimmer slat...... and many more...

Oh ok.....yeah i will be doing that in the year 2111

*goes back to landing slowstick without tearing the foam apart*

Or if someone wants to fly a 3D plane while his glider is thermalling high above; wow that would be so cool
Damn, now I'm gonna get dreams of doing this

you guys,,, ur imaginations are flying like a glider without fail safe   

forgot to mention on board starter.....

Now that is a SICK radio.Can it fly your plane for you?

can i watch a movie on that ?

what to do with all the 18 channels??

Wow ! Its got telemetry - Will it monitor the RPM on the landing gear wheels and alert me if the wheel collars are tight  ?

Quote from: Sreedhar on May 13, 2011, 01:27:00 PM
what to do with all the 18 channels??

If I had that Radio in my hands, I would use 18 channels for -
1 - Throttle
2-  Aileron
3 - Rudder
4 - Elevator
5 - Landing Gear
6 - Landing Gear brakes
7 - Air Brakes
8 - Lights
9 - Engine Starter
10 - Flaps
11 - Slats
12 - Rev thrust
13 - Canards (for some planes)
14 - Bomb Drop
15 - Pyrotechnics(small explosives, rockets)
16 - Smoke
17 - Telemetry
18 - FPV camera Control   

OMG - you neeed wayy more to do that .
Need 2 for aileron
2 for elevator
FPV will need more for Pan / Tilt

And what about Ejection ?

Two for aileron will free up channel for flaps, if the 18MZ has mixing feature

Quote from: SunLikeStar on May 13, 2011, 04:13:26 PM
Two for aileron will free up channel for flaps, if the 18MZ has mixing feature

On the contrary flaps will need 2 servos too.