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Originally Posted by frogger
I've bitten the bullett and got my 5yr old boy a Spektrum DX3R. The hand grip seems a bit smaller than other pistol grip transmitters and as it uses only 4 x AA's it's light too. Additionally it has no long aerial that keeps snapping and I have taped the short aerial to the transmitter. There is also no longer an aerial on his car.
It has all the adjustments you'd ever need and so I run his throttle EPA low down at 40% and steering rate at about 70%. It has reduced the crashes and saves me a lot of money on broken parts too and a lot of frustration on playing mechanic. 
One thing though is that his finger can't push the trigger forwards enough to use the brakes so I have cable tied a bit of nitro fuel tubing over the trigger to get it closer to his finger and I also switched on drag brake a little.
He goes racing with me every week and I got him his own PT - that alone has made my life so much easier. No more running backwards and forwards for hand outs and much less faffing about. It's all money and hard to justify when they are so young but what the hell, you only live once and I don't want to spend my life faffing about 
He's just started asking me to make the car faster this weekend so we'll see how that goes |
What car are you running for him? I have also toyed with the idea of getting him a ZX-5 rtr as I run a std zx-5 so we can share spares.... mind you, I could buy an SP and give him my std zx-5...
