...so I tried to blow it away
So the saga of the Phoenix's servos continues. After having ripped off the original servos, I replaced them with a pair of HXT 900's and did a test, with exactly the same result! I was convinced that it was the servos failing, especially after having read a thread topic where someone's plane had crashed after he had failed to replace chattering servos and had lost control... Swapping the aileron leads with the flaps showed the root cause - the oscillating flaps revealed the issue was the signal, not the hardware.
Gazing at the my DX5e transmitter I wondered where to start; if I dismantled it would that be the end of it anyway? A thought crossed my mind and I moved the elevator stick across its maximum travel while blowing at the at the gimble a few times. Trying the controls again it was as smooth as anything with no trace of jitters!
All I need to do now is reconstruct the Phoenix from its needless state of disarray...
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