Spec me a 2.4ghz receiver & Transmitter for a plane.

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About to borrow a plane for a week before i take a plunge and buy one for myself. Ill be needing a receiver and transmitter as i wont be getting supplied one. Its just a electric trainer plane i will be borrowing, then ill be purchasing a nitro trainer plane later on if i get on well. I dont need an expensive 2.4ghz system. Im looking to spend £90 including batterys, receiver, transmitter and charger. Ready to fit and go! I wont be going massive distances with the plane.

The nitro trainer i am thinking of buying, does not come with a transmitter. only a 35mhz receiver.
 
You wont make that in £90. The electronics are normally the most expensive part of starting RC.
Depending on the electric plane the battery/charger will be half your budget at the cheap end.

Look for something like a Spektrum dx6 on ebay and you can get a cheap receiver for ~£10

You would have to get a different transmitter for the nitro or swap the reciever out so you need to know how many channels that has before committing the the DX6 (6 channels)
 
I have a spektrum dx6i radio and a spektrum ar7000 reciever, I would go for at minimum dx6i over a dx6, better technology
 
According to what a friend of mine who is big into RC told me when I was looking at buying a setup.

Always buy your radio gear with more channels than you need

He recommended an 8 or 10 channel setup as you are then covered no matter what vehicle you get and you always have room to upgrade without buying new radios.

Receivers are cheap so you can have more than one vehicle with a receiver in each and you only need one transmitter.

Depending on how serious you are you can also get transmitters that can be programmed so you can easily switch between car, boat, plane and heli without major reconfiguration.
 
I suppose he could get a DX5e for £46 and then an AR500 for £35.

I think I misread the first post though. The transmitters will run on standard AA batteries and the electric plane should have a BEC (battery elimination circuit) so assuming the electric plane comes with it's main power battery and something to charge it with you could make it in under budget.
 
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