Hi from Sydney

[davidd]

New member here, from Sydney Australia.

I have only very recently become interested in Multi rotor craft, mainly as a platform for aerial photography and video.

I have zero experience in modern RC craft, I have a small amount of RC experience from many many years ago.. (in the stone age)...

I am quite experienced in photography, and computers (building and programming).

I have some questions that I hope someone can help me with:

1. Can anyone recommend reading material, books, articles and web sites that might give me a 'Multi Rotors for Dummies' type grounding in the field.

2. My limited exploration has led me to think that something like a DJI F550 with NAZA and GPS might be a good mid-term goal, fitted with a Go-Pro or similar. Would this be suitable for flight training, or would a simpler, basic system be a better first craft? I would like to buy things like TX only once, so what should I aim for in this area?

3. Any other advice you can give me?

Thank you in advance for any help!

David

 

[Vortex]

Hi David,

Welcome aboard from Sunny Cairns.

The best piece of advice I can give you is to get yourself a good simulator. I use and really like Phoenix. Practice, practice and then practice some more and once you can hover and fly around then start thinking about getting a real one and have a go at flying it.

Multirotors fly and react very similar to a helicopter so you fly it in a very similar way to how you fly a heli and are extremely tricky to say the least. A multirotor is made even more difficult as it really doesn't have an easily defined nose and tail as a heli does.

They are an amazing thing and are a thrill to fly once you master them

Drop me a PM if you'd like.

Regards,

Lance

 

[mmurfitt]

New member here, from Sydney Australia.

I have only very recently become interested in Multi rotor craft, mainly as a platform for aerial photography and video.

I have zero experience in modern RC craft, I have a small amount of RC experience from many many years ago.. (in the stone age)...

I am quite experienced in photography, and computers (building and programming).

I have some questions that I hope someone can help me with:

1. Can anyone recommend reading material, books, articles and web sites that might give me a 'Multi Rotors for Dummies' type grounding in the field.

2. My limited exploration has led me to think that something like a DJI F550 with NAZA and GPS might be a good mid-term goal, fitted with a Go-Pro or similar. Would this be suitable for flight training, or would a simpler, basic system be a better first craft? I would like to buy things like TX only once, so what should I aim for in this area?

3. Any other advice you can give me?

Thank you in advance for any help!

David

Hey David,
I've been in exactly the same position, albeit a couple of months ago. And as such I've been creating a thread detailing the lessons I've learned, I'm writing this on my mobile phone so don't have the ability to link to the thread, but you can find it either by clicking my profile photo and checking the threads I've been contributing to or by looking in the DJI thread.
Message me if you struggle finding it..

Regarding using a simulator some seem to use it and find it useful and others not so much, personally I'm in the 'not so much' camp. I must confess my route has resulted in a small crash, however this was due to me not understanding or setting up the GPS correctly in my F550 rather than not being able to fly it.
If you have reasonable hand to eye coordination then it's not too hard to get to grips with flying a hexa, if you're a little uncertain then using a simulator should do the trick.
I happened to speak to a helicopter guy down where I fly my hexa and he said he puts in around 10 hours a week on the simulator, but I think he was more practicing tricks and stunts etc.


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[davidd]

Hi, thanks for the replies.

I have been looking at the Phoenix simulator. It would appear that you need to buy your Tx before you can use the simulator, is this so? Does the Tx plug into the computer when you use the sim?

Does the sim have a generic multi-rotor, or can you get data for different craft (eg F550)?

Forgive the very basic questions, I'm trying to get up to speed ASAP. :nevreness:

 

[Vortex]

Hi David, Yes you will need a transmitter to operate the sim but you'll also need one to fly your multirotor so you get to kill 2 birds with the one purchase

The last time I flew mine it had a Gaui 330 quad which flew quite realistically

Regards,

Lance