A brand new product should not have these problems. I fly mine on 3s 2200mAh battery and Spektrum NX10 Wing spann: 700mm Length: 775mm Weight: 600 grams
Love my Habu! i've got around 50 flights on it. About 18 flights ago I converted it to 4s and added Spoilerons. What an easy plane to land now and oh boys it's fast! 97mph now!
Mine flying really good in all fight settings I definitely like it better with wheels off and even more lighter on its feet with 1300 , I think u definitely got something goofy going on with your motor or esc hope HH fixes the problem for u good luck nice review
Personally I think E-flite's quality control is on a bit of a downwards spiral, I recently bought the F4u-4 Corsair and it was shocking, I own a lot of E-flite planes and they've pretty much always been perfect!! Good honest review 😀👍
I had some minor issues with one of the landing gears on my Corsair not deploying always. I think that many of us have a number of E-Flite planes and then the fault rate is higher. I've also had problems with some FMS planes and broken servos.
I’ve had two of these and never a problem. I beat the tar out of the first one and I finally just retired it. I probably have well over 200 flights on my first one.
I had same exact problem with the esc on my 70mm habu ss. Eflite did a warranty exchange and the new esc worked perfectly. Hopefully they take care of yaa!🙌🙌
"...On this Habu it's a simple build" disrespecting the assembly projects... Heading to my mancave starting some assembling OMG! I'm amazed you were able to ROG with this small fan, but you should have aborted the take off and find the defect and avoid low altitude loops when not dialed in. It could be the larger batterie revving the rotor higher as intended. Possible blade extension hitting the shroud. When I read blades are knocking off I assume the materials are too soft. Get rid of the landing gear, Batterie as suggested and trim your plane with the throws as suggested by the manufacturor as suggested for maiden flight. Get your CG spot on and cornering will be very tight but you should be into the 60% expo on elevator for better landings. No expo on roll or rudder. Then dail in max throws until your plane stalls in tight high speed cornering.Dail a little less until it does not stall anymore. Speeds seems okay for a bifurbicated inlet and foam surface. Foamies are very contradictaty for edf anyway it's the worst case scenario for any edf. Ducting design like this is far from ideal and ESC location should be behind the motor ideally. Don't forget to balance the edf assembly to reduce current draw. I have some footage of a 90mm composite Viperjet with a 50mmedf with self wound motor on my account for reference. Btw, one should not make tight cornerings with edfjet you'll starve the edf rotor plenty footage on my account how to fly edf properly. It's likely it's not only the Habu to blame... Good luck, Erik
Sorry you encountered issues. My habu 50 has been a fun plane. The only problem with cold weather I have had is knocking off fan blades with snow and ice ingestion.
HH has been really good to me with regards to replacing faulty parts that are under warranty. They should fix you up with a new ESC. Please let us know.
You’re crazy to pass this plane up. It is a totally different plane than the habu 70 .. I agree it’s overpriced but it does come with a nice reciever if you get the bnf version. The pnp is overpriced… but it is a fantastic plane
The solution is simple, reduce the cut off voltage in the avian programming, some lipos sag more than others, especially in the cold, also, turn off the voltage alarms, put a switch audio event on the bind button to give you voltage info on demand instead…
As far as the plane itself…it’s fantastic and the most fun yiu can have on a 3s. I have never seen anyone else have issues with quality control. But fhe plane itself is fantastic
Interesting. I have seen 5 of them without issue but that is a very small sample size. Hope you get yours squared away so you can fly it. It’s a great flyer
Hi Lapeos sorry too yours didn't fly right I have about 50 flights on mine its about 7 months old now I fly mine on ZEE 1500 mah 3s battery here is a link of mine flying th-cam.com/video/gLBc8624tV4/w-d-xo.html still good video and I would contact Horizon just in case you have a bad esc or motor 👍👍
Love my Habu! i've got around 50 flights on it. About 18 flights ago I converted it to 4s and added Spoilerons. What an easy plane to land now and oh boys it's fast! 97mph now!
Cool! 4s sounds exciting!
Agreed. I’m In process of upgrading to 4S as well. It’s great on 3s so I can’t imagine 4s
How did you upgrade it to 4s? The stock Esc is rated for 4s but it doesn’t say it in the habu manual.
Mine flying really good in all fight settings I definitely like it better with wheels off and even more lighter on its feet with 1300 , I think u definitely got something goofy going on with your motor or esc hope HH fixes the problem for u good luck nice review
Thanks for commenting! I swapped the ESC and now it flies good!
Personally I think E-flite's quality control is on a bit of a downwards spiral, I recently bought the F4u-4 Corsair and it was shocking, I own a lot of E-flite planes and they've pretty much always been perfect!! Good honest review 😀👍
I had some minor issues with one of the landing gears on my Corsair not deploying always. I think that many of us have a number of E-Flite planes and then the fault rate is higher. I've also had problems with some FMS planes and broken servos.
So far I've been lucky with my Fms planes!! But I guess we should expect it from mass produced planes 😀👍
I’ve had two of these and never a problem. I beat the tar out of the first one and I finally just retired it. I probably have well over 200 flights on my first one.
I had same exact problem with the esc on my 70mm habu ss. Eflite did a warranty exchange and the new esc worked perfectly. Hopefully they take care of yaa!🙌🙌
No they don't help out European customers.
Hopefully that will change!💪
"...On this Habu it's a simple build" disrespecting the assembly projects...
Heading to my mancave starting some assembling OMG!
I'm amazed you were able to ROG with this small fan, but you should have aborted the take off and find the defect and avoid low altitude loops when not dialed in.
It could be the larger batterie revving the rotor higher as intended. Possible blade extension hitting the shroud.
When I read blades are knocking off I assume the materials are too soft.
Get rid of the landing gear, Batterie as suggested and trim your plane with the throws as suggested by the manufacturor as suggested for maiden flight. Get your CG spot on and cornering will be very tight but you should be into the 60% expo on elevator for better landings. No expo on roll or rudder. Then dail in max throws until your plane stalls in tight high speed cornering.Dail a little less until it does not stall anymore.
Speeds seems okay for a bifurbicated inlet and foam surface. Foamies are very contradictaty for edf anyway it's the worst case scenario for any edf. Ducting design like this is far from ideal and ESC location should be behind the motor ideally.
Don't forget to balance the edf assembly to reduce current draw.
I have some footage of a 90mm composite Viperjet with a 50mmedf with self wound motor on my account for reference.
Btw, one should not make tight cornerings with edfjet you'll starve the edf rotor plenty footage on my account how to fly edf properly.
It's likely it's not only the Habu to blame...
Good luck,
Erik
It was set up by the manual and everything checked but hey I will come back to this plane and show more when things are sorted.
Sorry you encountered issues. My habu 50 has been a fun plane. The only problem with cold weather I have had is knocking off fan blades with snow and ice ingestion.
Good to hear yours works great!
Also watch out for belly landing on dry grass like we have in az. Doesn’t take much to shred a fan on these
HH has been really good to me with regards to replacing faulty parts that are under warranty. They should fix you up with a new ESC. Please let us know.
Not with European customers sadly.
@@SunriseRCAviator Sorry to hear that. I can't imagine why that would be.
Good honest review. I passed this one by , not really a fan of the Habu .And its overpriced IMO.
I will come back to this bird and sort things out.
@@SunriseRCAviator Good to hear . . Best of luck with it .
You’re crazy to pass this plane up. It is a totally different plane than the habu 70 .. I agree it’s overpriced but it does come with a nice reciever if you get the bnf version. The pnp is overpriced… but it is a fantastic plane
The solution is simple, reduce the cut off voltage in the avian programming, some lipos sag more than others, especially in the cold, also, turn off the voltage alarms, put a switch audio event on the bind button to give you voltage info on demand instead…
It's not that simple I tried everything but the ESC was faulty and I had to replace it. Even HH said it had to be replaced.
Mine cutoff flying and I can’t do slow flights, like I have seen in other videos!
So you also had power cut-out during flight?
@@SunriseRCAviator yeah and it’s frustrating I’m buying a fuselage put it together and sale!
@@AngelLopez-xg7wt Have you talk to Horizon Hobby about getting a new speed controller? That was the faulty part in mine.
@@SunriseRCAviator did they help you out
@@AngelLopez-xg7wt Not for European customers sadly but maybe in the US.
Well you're one of a very few pilots that does constant, tight loops with an edf.
I like to fly my planes tight!
As far as the plane itself…it’s fantastic and the most fun yiu can have on a 3s. I have never seen anyone else have issues with quality control. But fhe plane itself is fantastic
I have heard a few other users experience the same thing so it's not an isolated issue.
Interesting. I have seen 5 of them without issue but that is a very small sample size. Hope you get yours squared away so you can fly it. It’s a great flyer
@@williamwallace9427 I will return to this plane down the road.
If your elevator is a problem do not do loops so close to the ground.
Dhhh.
I always push my planes to see where they fail as part of my exploration in RC planes.
Mine did the same power drop. They said to calibrate the esc. But it was too late. Crash landing due to lack of power. I didnt have elevator issues
The answer I got from HH was that it had to be replaced.
Theres something wrong with yours. I'd contact HH, the video shows it clearly. My Habu 50 is awesome.
Sadly HH does not help European customers so I had to fix it myself.
Did you use Spektrum batteries? How new are they?
Yes I use them and they are okay. Apart from some plastic tear due to handling no swelling after a few years of use.
I love mine! It flies great. I think you have a radio issue.
It was a faulty ESC.
thats the problem! your ussing a 2200 mah 3s, it is recommended for a 1300 mah 3s. that's why its not flying well.
recommended is between 1300 and 2200 so I'm using the specified battery.
@@SunriseRCAviator try using a 1300, i got a 1300 battery and I'm going to go fly today at johnson springview park so I will tell u if its good
Hi Lapeos sorry too yours didn't fly right I have about 50 flights on mine its about 7 months old now I fly mine on ZEE 1500 mah 3s battery here is a link of mine flying th-cam.com/video/gLBc8624tV4/w-d-xo.html still good video and I would contact Horizon just in case you have a bad esc or motor 👍👍
I did contact HH but no help from them.